The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize), in honor and memory of the German physicist

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (28 March 1911, in Esslingen am Neckar – 16 December 2000, in Allensbach) was a German physicist. He made contributions to nuclear spectroscopy, coincidence measurement techniques, radioactive tracers for biochemistry and m ...

, is funded by the ''Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung'' (BMBF, German Ministry of Education and Research), and it is awarded by a selection committee appointed by the ''

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'' (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the BMBF. Since 2013, there are ten recipients of the prize and each receives 20,000

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, which is an increase over the original 16,000 Euros that had been given to six recipients per year until 2012. Since 2021, the prize money has been increased to 200,000 Euros. Nominees for the award may be put forward by: *Members of the DFG Review Boards *Research universities of the

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*The ''Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften'' (Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities)
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' *The

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*The

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*The

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...

*The

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community The Leibniz Association (German: ''Leibniz-Gemeinschaft'' or ''Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz'') is a union of German non-university research institutes from various disciplines. Funding and Structure As of 2020, 96 non-u ...

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