The Ignaz Lieben Prize, named after the Austrian banker , is an annual

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n award made by the

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to young scientists working in the fields of

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, or

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Biography

The Ignaz Lieben Prize has been called the Austrian

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. It is similar in intent but somewhat older than the Nobel Prize. The Austrian merchant Ignaz L. Lieben, whose family supported many philanthropic activities, had stipulated in his testament that 6,000 florins should be used “for the common good”. In 1863 this money was given to the Austrian Imperial Academy of Sciences, and the Ignaz L. Lieben Prize was instituted. Every three years, the sum of 900 florins was to be given to an Austrian scientist in the field of chemistry, physics, or physiology. This sum corresponded to roughly 40 per cent of the annual income of a university professor. From 1900 on, the prize was offered on a yearly basis. The endowment was twice increased by the Lieben family. When the endowment had lost its value due to inflation after

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, the family transferred the necessary sum yearly to the

. But since the family was persecuted by the

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, the prize was discontinued after the German

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of Austria in 1938. Richard Lieben (1842–1919), the younger son of Ignaz Lieben, financed the Richard Lieben Prize in Mathematics, which was awarded every three years from 1912 to 1921, and one final time in 1928, before being discontinued. In 2004 the Lieben prize was reinstated, with support from Isabel Bader and Alfred Bader (who was able to flee from Austria to

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at the age of fourteen in 1938). Now, the award amounts to US Dollar 36,000, and it is offered yearly to young scientists who work in Austria,

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, the

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(i.e., in one of the countries that were part of the

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a hundred years ago), and who work in the fields of molecular biology, chemistry, or physics.

Laureates

Source (1865–1937; 2004–2007)
Ignaz Lieben Gesellschaft
*2022 Dennis Kurzbach *2021 *2020 Norbert Werner *2019 Gašper Tkačik *2018 Nuno Maulide *2017 Iva Tolić *201
Illés Farkas
*2015 Francesca Ferlaino *2014 *2013 Barbara Kraus *2012 *2011 Mihály Kovács *2010 Robert Kralovics *2009 Frank Verstraete *2008 Csaba Pal *2007 Markus Aspelmeyer *2006 Andrius Baltuska *2005 Ronald Micura *2004 Zoltan Nusser * ''Not awarded 1938–2003'' *1937 Marietta Blau and Hertha Wambacher *1936 Franz Lippay and Richard Rössler *1935 Armin Dadieu *1934 Eduard Haschek *1933 Ferdinand Scheminzky *1932 Georg Koller *1931 Karl Höfler *1930 Wolf Johannes Müller *1929 Karl Przibram *1927 Otto Porsch and Gustav Klein *1926 Adolf Franke *1925

Lise Meitner Elise Lise Meitner ( ; ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission. After completing her doctoral research in 1906, Meitner became the second woman ...

*1924

Otto Loewi Otto Loewi (; 3 June 1873 – 25 December 1961) was a Germany, German-born pharmacology, pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel ...

and Ernst Peter Pick *1923 Otto von Fürth *1922 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch *1921

Karl von Frisch Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethology, ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investi ...

*1920 Ernst Späth *1919

Victor Franz Hess Victor Franz Hess (; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American particle physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of cosmic radiation". Biography He was born to Vinzenz ...

*1918 Eugen Steinach *1917 Wilhelm Schlenk *1916 Friedrich Adolf Paneth *1915

Wilhelm Trendelenburg Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Trendelenburg (16 July 1877 – 16 March 1946) was a German physiologist known for his work in physiological optics. He studied physiology at the University of Freiburg, receiving his doctorate from the University of Leipzig ...

*1914 Fritz Pregl *1913 Stefan Meyer *1912 Oswald Richter *1911 Friedrich Emich *1910 Felix Ehrenhaft *1909 Eugen Steinach *1908 Paul Friedlaender *1907

Hans Benndorf Hans Benndorf (13 December 1870 – 11 February 1953) was an Austrian physicist. He made several contributions in the field of seismology and in his research of atmospheric electricity. Life and career Benndorf was born on 13 December 1870 in Z� ...

*1906 Arnold Durig *1905 Rudolf Wegscheider and Hans Leopold Meyer *1904 Franz Schwab *1903 Josef Schaffer *1902 Josef Herzig *1901 Josef Liznar *1900 Theodor Beer and Oskar Zoth *1898 Konrad Natterer *1895

Josef Maria Eder Josef Maria Eder (16 March 1855 – 18 October 1944) was an Austrian chemist who specialized in the chemistry of photography, and who wrote a comprehensive early history of the technical development of chemical photography. Life and work Eder was ...

and Eduard Valenta *1892 Guido Goldschmiedt *1889 Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten *1886 Zdenko Hans Skraup *1883 Victor Ritter Ebner von Rofenstein *1880

Hugo Weidel Hugo Weidel (13 November 1849 – 7 June 1899) was a chemist from Austria-Hungary known for inventing Weidel's reaction and describing the structure of the organic compound nicotinic acid (niacin). For his achievements, Weidel received the Lieben ...

*1877 Sigmund Ritter Exner von Ewarten *1874 Eduard Linnemann *1871 Leander Ditscheiner *1868 Eduard Linnemann and Karl von Than *1865

Josef Stefan Josef Stefan (; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire. Life and work Stefan was born in the village of St. Peter (Slovene: ) on the outskirts of Klagenfurt) to A ...

Richard Lieben Prize

* 1912

Josip Plemelj Josip Plemelj (December 11, 1873 – May 22, 1967) was a Slovenes, Slovene mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. He was the first chancel ...

* 1915

Gustav Herglotz Gustav Herglotz (2 February 1881 – 22 March 1953) was a German Bohemian physicist best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Biography Gustav Ferdinand Joseph Wenzel Herglotz was born in Volary num. 28 to a public n ...

* 1918 Wilhelm Gross * 1921 Hans Hahn and

Johann Radon Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna). Life RadonBrigitte Bukovics: ''Biography of Johan ...

* 1928

Karl Menger Karl Menger (; January 13, 1902 – October 5, 1985) was an Austrian-born American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebra over a field, algebras and the dimension theory of low-r ...

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Richard Lieben Prize

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