The Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1904 by the chemist and factory director,

Ludwig Camillo Haitinger Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and c ...

(1860–1945), who created the award in honor of his father, Karl Ludwig Haitinger. From 1905 to 1943 it was awarded every year, for "studies in chemistry and physics that proved to be of great practical use for industrial applications". The prize was awarded for the last time in the year 1954.

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*1905 Friedrich Hasenöhrl for electromagnetic theory *1906 F. Ratz ::: Rudolf Scheuble for candles which burn in color *1907

Robert Kremann The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, ho ...

for research on esters *1908

Marian Smoluchowski Marian Smoluchowski (; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics, and an avid mountaineer. Life Born into an upper- ...

for theoretical investigation of Brownian motion *1909 F. Haiser :::F. Wenzel *1910

Anton Skrabal Anton may refer to: People *Anton (given name), including a list of people with the given name *Anton (surname) Places *Anton Municipality, Bulgaria **Anton, Sofia Province, a village *Antón District, Panama **Antón, a town and capital of th ...

for research on kinetic reactions of potassium permanganate *1911

Gustav Jaumann Gustav Andreas Johannes Jaumann (1863–1924) was an Austrian physicist. An assistant to the physicist Ernst Mach, he had a talent for mathematics, but disbelieved the existence of small particles like electrons and atoms. Between 1901 and 1924 he ...

for authoring the corotational rates known as “Jaumann derivatives” *1912

Albert Defant Albert Joseph Maria Defant (July 12, 1884, Trient – December 24, 1974, Innsbruck) was an Austrian meteorologist, oceanographer and climatologist. He published fundamental works on the physics of the atmosphere and ocean and is regarded as one of t ...

for atmospheric physics and weather research ::: Wilhelm Schmidt for research on microclimatology *1913

Franz Faltis Franz may refer to: People * Franz (given name) * Franz (surname) Places * Franz (crater), a lunar crater * Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada * Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...

for research on opiates, particularly morphine ::: Otto Hönigschmid for measurement of atomic mass *1914 Karl Przibram for studies on the electrical charge of fog particles *1915

Heinrich Mache Heinrich Mache (27 April 1876 – 1 September 1954) was an Austrian physicist. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1915. Life Born in Prague, after his secondary school studies, Mache completed the first year of ...

for absolute measurement method of radioactivity *1916 Emil Abel for catalysis research *1917

Felix Ehrenhaft Felix Ehrenhaft (24 April 1879 – 4 March 1952) was an Austrian physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversia ...

for photophoresis and effects on the interaction of light with particles *1918 Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (the father of the Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ernst Pauli) for his research on the chemistry of colloids. *1919 Max Bamberger :::

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*1920

Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (, ; ; 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961), sometimes written as or , was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist with Irish citizenship who developed a number of fundamental results in quantum theo ...

for fundamentals of color theory :::

Hans Thirring Hans Thirring (March 23, 1888 – March 22, 1976) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, professor, and father of the physicist Walter Thirring. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1920. Together with the mathemat ...

for studies on general relativity *1921 Alfons Klemenc for studies on electrochemistry *1922 Alois Zinke for condensed ring systems ::: Anton Kailan for research on radium and ultraviolet radiation *1923 Adolph Smekal for research on quantum theory of dispersion *1924 Franz Aigner for underwater sound navigation ::: Gerhard Kirsch for research on nuclear physics and geologic time measurement *1925

for the discovery of electrolyte effect of alloys ::: Ludwig Moser for quantitative rules for metals *1926 Georg Stetter for using electronics to measure the energy of nuclear particles *1927 Moritz Kohn for organic chemistry :::J. Lindner for organic chemistry *1928 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch for the law of independent migration of ions *1929

Fritz Feigel Fritz Feigl (15 May 1891 – 23 January 1971) was a Jewish Austrian-born chemist. He taught at the University of Brazil. Biography Feigl was born and studied in Vienna, but owing to his military service in the First World War he had to interru ...

for his techniques in analytical chemistry :::L. Schmid for organic chemistry *1931

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for research on radioactivity *1932 Otto Redlich for research on the properties of water and aqueous solutions *1933 Elizabeth Rona for her method of extracting polonium :::

Berta Karlik Berta Karlik (24 January 1904 – 4 February 1990) was an Austrian physicist. She worked for the University of Vienna, eventually becoming the first female professor at the institution. While working with Ernst Foyn she published a paper on the ra ...

for her work on luminescence *1935

Joseph Mattauch Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

for development of the Mattauch isobar rule *1936

Otto Kratky Otto Kratky (; born 9 March 1902 in Vienna – died 11 February 1995 in Graz) was an Austrian physicist. He is best known for his contribution to the small-angle X-ray scattering method, for the Kratky plot, and for the invention of the densit ...

for studies on colloidal particles *1937

Marietta Blau Marietta Blau (29 April 1894 – 27 January 1970) was an Austrian physicist credited with developing photographic nuclear emulsions that were usefully able to image and accurately measure high-energy nuclear particles and events, significantly a ...

and

Hertha Wambacher Hertha Wambacher (9 March 1903 in Vienna – 25 April 1950 in Vienna) was an Austrian physicist. Education After having obtained the general certificate of education from the girls' high school run by the Association for the Extended Education o ...

for the identification of alpha-particles and protons *1939

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for luminescence of fluorites *1947

for her discovery of Astatine

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