Klung Wilhelmy Science Award

The stated aim of these foundations is to strengthen the promotion of outstanding scientific achievements and to reward internationally accredited innovative approaches.

honored for ground-breaking contributions to the development of quantum simulation and computing platforms with Rydberg atoms and spins in diamond.

honored for her experimental realization of synthetic gauge fields in optical lattices and their application to quantum simulators of topological phases of matter.

honored for her pioneering research in the fields of organic synthesis, catalysis, and computer-aided elucidation of reaction mechanisms.

honored for his research in the field of physical chemistry, in particular for his pioneering studies of the electron movement in molecules at the subfemto second time scale.

honored for his work on the development of ORCA – a program package for highly efficient calculation of the electronic structure of large molecules.

honored for his work at the interface between synthetic organic chemistry and biology in the development of automated solid phase synthesis of complex carbohydrates.

prize withdrawn in 2002. honored for his work in the field of main group chemistry, especially of phosphorus, silicon and sodium.

– Nobel Prize 1987 along with Karl Alex Müller honored for his work on the crystallization and structure determination of the photosynthesis system I.

– Nobel Prize 1988 along with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber honored for the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

– Nobel Prize 1998 along with Daniel Chee Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin honored for his work on the interpretation of kinetic phenomena at the molecular level.