Awards and Distinctions
Peter Gruss has won various awards for his research. In 1994 he was awarded the most highly endowed prize in German science, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 1999 he was honored with the German Future Prize (the Federal President's Prize for Science and Technology) for his studies in molecular biology and the potential development of therapeutic procedures which they enabled. He received this prize together with Herbert Jäckle. Gruss received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009.
Some of his other awards include
- 1992 Feldberg Prize
- 1995 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 1999 Science Prize of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany
- 2004 State Prize of Lower Saxony
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