Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize), in honor and memory of the German physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, German Ministry of Education and Research),[1] and it is awarded by a selection committee appointed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the BMBF. Annually, there are six recipients of the prize and each receives 16,000 Euros.[2]
Nominees for the award may be put forward by:[3]
- Members of the DFG Review Boards
- Research universities of the Federal Republic of Germany
- The Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften (Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities)[4]
- The Max Planck Society
- The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
- The Fraunhofer Society
- The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community