Awards

Awards and honours for researchers in the Max Planck Society

Patrick Cramer is director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and is President-elect of the Max Planck Society.

 The biochemist is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of gene transcription more

Erin Schuman is awarded with the Brain Prize 2023

Max Planck scientist receives the world’s top prize in neuroscience for her pioneering work on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity more

Max Planck Director Brenda Schulman receives Louis-Jeantet Prize

Max Planck scientist and Ivan Ðikić are jointly awarded for their contributions to the ubiquitin research field more

Leibniz Prize 2023 for Sarah Ellen O'Connor

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena honoured for her discoveries on plant natural product biosynthesis more

Nobel Prize 2022 for Svante Pääbo

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of palaeogenetics, of which he is considered the founder more

The “Oscars in Science”

Anthony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne receive the world's largest science prize, the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences more

Ronald Naumann in his lab.

The head of the transgenic core facility of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics receives the award for a method to reduce the number of experimental animals more

potrait of Margaret Roberts

Award for political scientist Margaret Roberts and Medals for Vanessa Ogle and Wim Decock more

Award Ceremony of the Körber Prize for Anthony Hyman

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden received the Körber Prize in Hamburg's City Hall for the discovery of a completely new state of biological matter more

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Patrick Cramer is director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and is President-elect of the Max Planck Society.

 The biochemist is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of gene transcription more

Erin Schuman is awarded with the Brain Prize 2023

Max Planck scientist receives the world’s top prize in neuroscience for her pioneering work on molecular mechanisms of brain development and plasticity more

Max Planck Director Brenda Schulman receives Louis-Jeantet Prize

Max Planck scientist and Ivan Ðikić are jointly awarded for their contributions to the ubiquitin research field more

Leibniz Prize 2023 for Sarah Ellen O'Connor

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena honoured for her discoveries on plant natural product biosynthesis more

Nobel Prize 2022 for Svante Pääbo

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig is honoured for his pioneering work in the field of palaeogenetics, of which he is considered the founder more

The “Oscars in Science”

Anthony Hyman and Clifford Brangwynne receive the world's largest science prize, the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences more

potrait of Margaret Roberts

Award for political scientist Margaret Roberts and Medals for Vanessa Ogle and Wim Decock more

Award Ceremony of the Körber Prize for Anthony Hyman

The director of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden received the Körber Prize in Hamburg's City Hall for the discovery of a completely new state of biological matter more

Award for research on Rett syndrome

Huda Zoghbi and Adrian Bird receive the International Prize for Translational Neuroscience of the Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation for their findings on the causes of Rett syndrome more

Gruber Cosmology Prize for Frank Eisenhauer

The scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is honoured for developing pioneering instruments more

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The human imprint in meteorological background noise

The statistical model with which global warming can be attributed to increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere was developed by former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Klaus Hasselmann, who will be receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for his work. more

“We will be using unique new Treuhand data”

Ufuk Akcigit, this year's winner of the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, explains the unique set-up of his Germany-based research project more

Celebrity at stand-up reception

The Higgs particle gives mass to matter - and wings to experimental physicists more

Light switches for nerve cells

Max Planck scientists revolutionize neurobiology and win coveted science prize more

Trying to controvert a seemingly incontrovertible law is a hard job. And Stefan Hell discovered just how hard when he attempted to thwart the resolution limit of optical microscopes. Initially, his ideas fell on deaf ears. Today, however, Stefan Hell is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. more

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