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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winners

The DFG awards every year since 1985 outstanding German scientists with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years. So far there are 14 prize winners at the Freie Universität Berlin:

  • Prof. Dr. Volker Erdmann, Biochemistry (1988)
  • Prof. Dr. Wolfram Saenger, Crystallography (1988)
  • Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel, Neuroscience (1991)
  • Prof. Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Japanese Studies (1992)
  • Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka, History (1992)
  • Prof. Dr. Johann Mulzer, Organic chemistry (1994)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Schaefer, Jewish Studies (1994)
  • Prof. Dr. Emo Welzl, Computer science (1995)
  • Prof. Dr. Onno Oncken, Geology (1998)
  • Prof. Dr. Regine Hengge-Aronis, Microbiology (1998)
  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Kuepper, Romance studies (2001)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rupert Klein, Mathematics (2003)
  • Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Dramatics (2004)
  • Prof. Dr. Gyburg Radke, Ancient Greek (2006)

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