The Eduard Rhein Foundation was founded in 1976 in

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(Germany) by Eduard Rhein. The goal of the foundation is to promote scientific research, learning, arts, and culture. This is done in particular by granting awards for outstanding achievements in research and/or development in the areas of radio, television and information technology.

Awards and honors

The foundation grants the following awards and honors: * Technology Award (30,000

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) * Cultural Award (10,000

) * Ring of Honor ( moonstone set in gold) for outstanding work which has been accomplished over a long period of time, the number of living bearers of rings is limited to ten

Ring of Honor Recipients

*1980 Vladimir K. Zworykin *1981 Walter Bruch *1982 Max Grundig *1983 Karl Holzamer *1984 Herbert von Karajan *1985 Hugh Greene *1986

Masaru Ibuka Masaru Ibuka (井深大 ''Ibuka Masaru''; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.Kirkup, James"Obituary: Masaru Ibuka," ''Independent'' (London). December ...

*1987 Werner Höfer *1988

Ray Dolby Ray Milton Dolby (; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR. He helped develop the video tape recorder while at Ampex and was the founder of Dolby Labora ...

*1992

Rudolf Hell Rudolf Hell (19 December 1901 – 11 March 2002) was a German inventor and engineer. Career Hell was born in Eggmühl. From 1919 to 1923, he studied electrical engineering in Munich. He worked there from 1923 to 1929 as assistant of Prof. M ...

*1994 Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg *1998 Heinz Zemanek *1999 Vladimir A. Kotelnikov *2000 Heinrich von Pierer *2001 Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker *2002 Hans-Jürgen Warnecke *2004 Hubert S. Markl *2007

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*2008 Herbert Mataré *2012 Michael Sohlman *2015 Wolfgang Heckl *2020 Gerd Hirzinger

Award winners

1979 to 2006 award winners are listed in the German article. 2007: *Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Sessler for the design of electret transducers, the invention of the foil

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(together with James West) and of the silicon condenser microphone (with D. Hohm). * Cultural Award: Prof. Dr. Paul Dobrinski for the publication of scientific and technical works of young scientists. * Ring of Honor: Dr. Dr.

for her contributions in the area of crewed space flight. 2008 * Technology Award: Siegfried Dais and Uwe Kiencke for invention, international standardisation and propagation of the "

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" (CAN), an open, reliable real-time communication system for

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s in automotive, medical and automation applications as well as in consumer goods, which today dominates the world market. * Cultural Award: Norbert Lossau for brilliantly written science and technology related articles published in the newspaper "

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". Over a sustained period of time his outstanding contributions are received by the readers as splendidly written, comprehensive in scope yet to read sources of information. * Ring of Honor: Herbert F. Mataré for his invention of the solid state amplifier in 1948, performed independently and parallel to Bell Lab's

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. Further, in recognition of his important contributions to information technology, solid-state physics and -manufacturing over a period of more than 60 years. 2009 * Technology Award: Dr. Martin Schadt Electro-optical core technologies for

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s 2010 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm and Prof. Dr.

Thomas Wiegand Thomas Wiegand (born 6 May 1970 in Wismar) is a German electrical engineer who substantially contributed to the creation of the H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC video coding standards. He has been elected to the German National Academy of ...

Contributions to video coding and to the development of the H.264/AVC standard 2011 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hilberg Invention of the radio clock 2012 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Bradford Parkinson Development of the

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(GPS) * Technology Award: Dov Moran for inventing the

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. 2013 * Technology Award: Ching W. Tang for inventing the first highly efficient organic light emitting diode and further contributions to the development of

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devices. 2014 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr. Dr.

Kees Schouhamer Immink Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink (born 18 December 1946) is a Dutch engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio, video, and data recording, including popular digital media such as compact di ...

for contributions to the theory and practice of channel codes that enable efficient and reliable optical recording, and creative contributions to digital recording technology. 2015 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. rer. nat. h.c. mult.

Karlheinz Brandenburg Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraunh ...

, Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Grill and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Herre for decisive contributions to the development and practical implementation of the mp3 audio coding technique.Eduard-Rhein-Preis 2015
2016 * Technology Award: Prof. Blake S. Wilson, Prof. Dipl-.Ing. Dr.tech.

Erwin Hochmair Erwin Hochmair (born 1940) is an Austrian electrical engineer whose research focuses in the fields of biomedical engineering and cochlear implant design. He has been a professor at the Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck si ...

and Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Dr. med. Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer for the development and commercialization of the world’s first multi-channel microelectronic cochlear implant. 2017 * Technology Award: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst D. Dickmanns for pioneering contributions to autonomic driving. 2018 * Technology Award: Dr. Rajiv Laroia for pioneering work on Flash OFDM as a Forerunner of Fourth-Generation Mobile Communications (4G). 2019 * Technology Award: Dr. Franz Laermer and Andrea Urban for the invention of the deep reactive ion etching process (Bosch Process), a key process for manufacturing semiconductor sensors. 2020 * Technology Award: Prof.

Neal Koblitz Neal I. Koblitz (born December 24, 1948) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of hype ...

, Ph.D. and Victor S. Miller, Ph.D. for the invention of cryptography based on elliptic curves. 2021 * Technology Award: Prof. Denis Le Bihan, MD, Ph.D. and Peter J. Basser, Ph.D. for the development of MRI diffusion tensor imaging, which is used for surgery and radiation planning, for research into neurological diseases associated with white matter changes, and for reconstruction of neural pathways in the brain (tractography). 2022 * Technology Award: Prof. Hideo Hosono, Ph.D. for the invention of metal oxide thin film transistors for display applications. 2023 * Technology Award: Prof.

Gilles Brassard Gilles Brassard is a faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001. Education and early life Brassard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell Univers ...

, Ph.D. and Charles H. Bennett, Ph.D. for the conception of the first key agreement protocol whose security is derived from the validity of quantum physics.

References

External links

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