The Feldberg Foundation promotes scientific exchange between German and British scientists in the field of experimental medical research. The foundation is registered in Hamburg, Germany with the secretariat based in the UK. The pharmacologist Wilhelm Feldberg, who as a Jew had been forced to emigrate from Germany in 1933, used the pension he was given as

Emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

Professor in Germany and the restitution money that he received from the German Government to establish the Feldberg Foundation in 1961. Each year a German and a British scientist are chosen, and each recipient gives a prize lecture in the other one's country.

Recipients

2011–

2001–2010

1991–2000

1981–1990

1971–1980

1961–1970

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Thaddeus Mann Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann CBE FRS (4 December 1908 – 27 November 1993) was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) and was educated at Lwo ...

, University of Cambridge , , ,

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

, - , 1969 , ,

Marthe Louise Vogt Marthe Louise Vogt (September 8, 1903 – September 9, 2003) was a German scientist recognized as one of the leading neuroscientists of the twentieth century. She is mainly remembered for her important contributions to the understanding of ...

, Babraham Institute , , ,

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

, - , 1968 , ,

David C. Phillips David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS (7 March 1924 – 23 February 1999) was a pioneering, British structural biologist and an influential figure in science and government. Research Phillips lead the team which determ ...

, University of Oxford , , , Max Planck Institute for Virus Research , - , 1967 , , William Albert Hugh Rushton, University of Cambridge , , , Saarland University , - , 1966 , ,

Roderic Alfred Gregory Roderic Alfred Gregory CBE FRS (29 December 1913 – 5 September 1990) was a British physiologist. He was born in 1913 in Plaistow, Essex, the only child of Alfred Gregory and Alice Jane (née Greaves) Gregory. His father was a fitter and turn ...

, University of Liverpool , , , University of Munich , - , 1965 , ,

Bernard Katz Sir Bernard Katz, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (; 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born British people, British physician and biophysics, biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol ...

, University College London , , Gerhard Braunitzer, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry near Munich , - , 1964 , , , University of Oxford , , , University of Mainz , - , 1963 , ,

Hugh E. Huxley Hugh Esmor Huxley MBE FRS (25 February 1924 – 25 July 2013) was a British molecular biologist who made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. He was a graduate in physics from Christ's College, Cambridge. However, his education ...

, Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge , , , Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg , - , 1962 , ,

David Whitteridge David Whitteridge FRS FRSE FRCP (1912–1994) was a 20th-century British physician and physiologist. Also an electrophysiologist, he was one of the first to demonstrate point to point relationship between nerve endings and specific points of a ...

, University of Oxford , , {{ill, Karl Julius Ullrich, de, Free University of Berlin , - , 1961 , , Lindor Brown, University of Oxford , , –

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