title: Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)
text: # Dannie Heineman Prize (Göttingen)
  
  The Dannie Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities has been awarded biennially since 1961 for excellent recently published publications in a new research field of current interest. It is awarded to younger researchers in natural sciences or mathematics. The prize is named after Dannie Heineman, a Belgian-US philanthropist, engineer and businessman with German roots.
  
  ## Prizewinners
  
  * 1961 James Franck, biochemistry
  * 1963 Edmund Hlawka, mathematics
  * 1965 Georg Wittig, chemistry
  * 1967 Martin Schwarzschild, astrophysics
  * 1967 Gobind Khorana, biochemistry
  * 1969 Brian Pippard, physics
  * 1971 Neil Bartlett, chemistry
  * 1973 Igor Schafarewitsch, mathematics
  * 1975 Philip Warren Anderson, physics
  * 1977 Albert Eschenmoser, chemistry
  * 1979 Phillip Griffiths, mathematics
  * 1981 Jacques Friedel, physics
  * 1983 Gerd Faltings, mathematics
  * 1986 Rudolf Thauer jr, biology
  * 1987 Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz, physics
  * 1989 Dieter Oesterhelt, biochemistry
  * 1991 Jean-Pierre Demailly, mathematics
  * 1993 Richard N. Zare, chemistry
  * 1995 Donald M. Eigler, physics
  * 1997 Regine Kahmann, biology
  * 1999 Wolfgang Ketterle, physics
  * 2001 Christopher C. Cummins, chemistry
  * 2003 Michael Neuberger, biology
  * 2005 Richard Taylor, mathematics
  * 2007 Bertrand I. Halperin, physics
  * 2009 Gerald F. Joyce, biology
  * 2012 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, chemistry
  * 2013 Emmanuel Jean Candès, mathematics
  * 2015 Andrea Cavalleri, physics
  * 2018 André Gröschel [de], chemistry
  * 2019 Oscar Randal-Williams, mathematics
  * 2021 Viola Priesemann, physics
  