Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize), in honor and memory of the German physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, German Ministry of Education and Research)[1], and it is awarded by a selection committee appointed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the BMBF. Annually, there are six recipients of the prize and each receives 16,000 Euros.[2]

Nominees for the award may be put forward by:[3]

Members of the DFG Review Boards
Research universities of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities)[4]
The Max Planck Society
The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
The Fraunhofer Society
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community

References

1 ^ Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
2 ^ Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (In English: *Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize)
3 ^ Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (In English: *Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize)
4 ^ Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften

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