1988
- Karl Joachim Ebeling - high frequency technics (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
- Lothar Gall - new history (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)
- Günter Harder - mathematics (University of Bonn)
- Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger - older German literature science (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
- Werner Hildenbrand - social economics (University of Bonn)
- Ingo Müller - theoretical physics (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Herbert W. Roesky and George Michael Sheldrick - inorganic chemistry (Georg August University of Göttingen)
- Wolfram Saenger and Volker Erdmann - biochemistry (Free University of Berlin)
- Günther Schütz - molecular biology (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg)
- Hans Wolfgang Spiess - physical chemistry (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz)
- Karl Otto Stetter - microbiology (University of Regensburg)
- Thomas Weiland - high energy physics (DESY (German electron synchrotron), Hamburg)
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