{"id":5732,"date":"2023-09-26T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/ueber-die-jgu\/?page_id=5732"},"modified":"2025-01-15T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T08:43:09","slug":"personalities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/universitaet.uni-mainz.de\/en\/personalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<jgu-base-pageheader react-props=\"{\n    &quot;items&quot;: [\n        {\n            &quot;box&quot;: {\n                &quot;index&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n                &quot;title&quot;: &quot;Renowned JGU Personalities&quot;,\n                &quot;link&quot;: {\n                    &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n                    &quot;title&quot;: &quot;learn more&quot;\n                }\n            },\n            &quot;color&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n            &quot;image&quot;: {\n                &quot;url&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n            },\n            &quot;imgCredit&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n            &quot;useVideo&quot;: false,\n            &quot;video&quot;: false\n        }\n    ],\n    &quot;type&quot;: &quot;border&quot;,\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;full&quot;,\n    &quot;quicklinks&quot;: {\n        &quot;show&quot;: false,\n        &quot;selects&quot;: []\n    },\n    &quot;useBreadcrumb&quot;: false\n}\">\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n\n<jgu-base-anchornavigation react-props=\"{\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;wide&quot;,\n    &quot;theme&quot;: &quot;white&quot;\n}\">\n    \n<\/jgu-base-anchornavigation>\n\n<div\n\tclass=\"jgu-anchorpoint\"\n\tid=\"nobel-laureates\"\n\tdata-label=\"Nobel laureates\"\n\tdata-hide-in-nav=\"false\"\n\ttabindex=\"0\"\n\tdata-initial-scroll=\"true\"\n><\/div>\n\n\n<jgu-base-section react-props=\"{&quot;color&quot;:&quot;white&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;wide&quot;,&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;medium&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"jgu-bgsection bg bg-white\"><div class=\"content padding-medium\"><jgu-base-heading react-props=\"{\n    &quot;index&quot;: &quot;Nobel laureates&quot;,\n    &quot;tags&quot;: {\n        &quot;htmlTag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;,\n        &quot;classTag&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;tag&quot;: &quot;h2&quot;\n    },\n    &quot;heading&quot;: &quot;Most prestigious award for a chemist and a physician based at Mainz&quot;,\n    &quot;textAlign&quot;: &quot;left&quot;,\n    &quot;anchor&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n    &quot;color&quot;: &quot;red&quot;\n}\"><\/jgu-base-heading>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\"><strong>1995: Professor Paul Crutzen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\">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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><jgu-base-button style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; column-gap: 30px; max-width: 100%; flex-direction: row; justify-content: right\">\n  \n<jgu-base-buttonitem react-props=\"{\n    &quot;text&quot;: &quot;&lt;a rel=\\&quot;noreferrer noopener\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nobelprize.org\\\/nobel_prizes\\\/chemistry\\\/laureates\\\/1995\\\/\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 &lt;\\\/a&gt;&quot;,\n    &quot;link&quot;: {\n        &quot;url&quot;: &quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nobelprize.org\\\/nobel_prizes\\\/chemistry\\\/laureates\\\/1995\\\/&quot;,\n        &quot;linkTarget&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;rel&quot;: &quot;&quot;,\n        &quot;opensInNewTab&quot;: true\n    },\n    &quot;align&quot;: &quot;left&quot;,\n    &quot;styling&quot;: &quot;primary&quot;,\n    &quot;icon&quot;: &quot;arrow-right-solid&quot;,\n    &quot;type&quot;: &quot;default&quot;,\n    &quot;iconBefore&quot;: false,\n    &quot;isSmall&quot;: false,\n    &quot;fullWidth&quot;: false,\n    &quot;className&quot;: &quot;&quot;\n}\"><\/jgu-base-buttonitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\"><strong>1956: Werner Otto Theodor For\u00dfmann<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\">The 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Werner Otto Theodor For\u00dfmann, Andr\u00e9 Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cournand, and Dickinson W. Richards for their discoveries in relation to cardiac catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\">In 1929, Werner For\u00dfmann (1904-1979), who was then an intern at the Auguste Victoria Clinic (today known as the Werner For\u00dfmann 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. 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Bloch<\/strong>, Experimental Physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005, <strong>Professor J\u00fcrgen Gau\u00df<\/strong>, Theoretical Chemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1990, <strong>Professor Konrad Kleinknecht<\/strong>, Experimental Physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1988, <strong>Professor Hans Wolfgang Spiess<\/strong>, Physical Chemistry (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\">The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is named after the eminent German scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646\u20131716). The German Research Foundation has been awarding the Leibniz Prize since 1986 to honor outstanding scientists and academics from different fields working in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-big-font-size\">The Leibniz Prize is Germany&#8217;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. 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With this award, they are invited to pursue their ground-breaking research at universities and research institutions in Germany and thus contribute to Germany&#8217;s sustained international competitiveness as an international research hub. 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