1995: Professor Paul Crutzen
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Professor Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Crutzen received the award together with Professor Mario Molina from MIT, Cambridge, USA, and Professor F. Sherwood Rowland from the University of California, Irvine, USA, for their research in atmospheric chemistry, especially on ozone formation and depletion.
1956: Werner Otto Theodor Forßmann
The 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Werner Otto Theodor Forßmann, André Frédéric Cournand, and Dickinson W. Richards for their discoveries in relation to cardiac catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.
In 1929, Werner Forßmann (1904-1979), who was then an intern at the Auguste Victoria Clinic (today known as the Werner Forßmann Hospital) in Eberswalde near Berlin, carried out the first cardiac catheterization by way of an experiment on himself. His contributions to therapeutic heart surgery were finally recognized in 1954 when he was awarded the Leibniz Medal by the German Academy of Sciences. In recognition of his work, he was also awarded the most prestigious Great Cross of Merit with Star and Sash of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz named Werner Forßmann as an Honorary Professor in 1956.
- 2005, Professor Immanuel F. Bloch, Experimental Physics
- 2005, Professor Jürgen Gauß, Theoretical Chemistry
- 1990, Professor Konrad Kleinknecht, Experimental Physics
- 1988, Professor Hans Wolfgang Spiess, Physical Chemistry (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is named after the eminent German scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). The German Research Foundation has been awarding the Leibniz Prize since 1986 to honor outstanding scientists and academics from different fields working in Germany.
The Leibniz Prize is Germany’s most important research award, worth EUR 2.5 million (prior to 2006: EUR 1.55 million) per award. It is the most highly endowed award given for scientific achievement worldwide. Prizewinners have to use the funds for project-related purposes and for the promotion of particularly qualified early career researchers.
The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an award for academics of all disciplines from abroad, who are internationally recognized as leaders in their field. With this award, they are invited to pursue their ground-breaking research at universities and research institutions in Germany and thus contribute to Germany’s sustained international competitiveness as an international research hub. The Humboldt Professorship, which is financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the International Research Fund for Germany, allows award winners to pursue long-term and ground-breaking research at universities and research institutions in Germany.
The award amount totals EUR 5 million for academics in experimental disciplines and EUR 3.5 million for researchers in theoretical disciplines and is made available for a period of five years.
JGU honors outstanding public figures and people who have rendered exceptional services to the university, science and art with the awards of Honorary Doctorate, Honorary Senator, or Honorary Citizen.
