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11/08/2023

Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Hamburg, November 8, 2023. Today the American physicist Edward Witten was awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. The professor emeritus at…

07/03/2023

String theorist Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Hamburg, 3 July 2023. The American physicist Edward Witten will be awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2023. The professor emeritus at…

11/09/2022

Nicola Spaldin receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Hamburg, 09 November 2022. The British scientist Nicola Spaldin received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. At the Planetarium Hamburg, the…

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Edward Witten receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2023. © OFC LLC Download image

Edward Witten receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2023. © OFC LLC Download image

Edward Witten, winner of the 2023 prize, in the domed hall of the Hamburg Planetarium.

Prof. Volker Schomerus, jury chairman for the award, senior scientist at DESY and speaker of the Wolfgang Pauli Centre, Edward Witten, winner of the 2023 prize, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Chairwoman of the Joachim Herz Foundation, in the domed hall of the Hamburg Planetarium.

Jason Chue, Consul General at the US Consulate General in Hamburg and Edward Witten, winner of the 2023 award.

Prof. Nicola Spaldin, laureate of the year 2022, in the cupola room of the Planetarium Hamburg.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Chairman of the Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, 2022 award winner, and Katharina Fegebank, 2nd Mayor and Science Senator of Hamburg.

Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Joël Mesot, President of ETH Zurich, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Chairman of the Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Prof. Dr. Nicola Spaldin, laureate 2022, Katharina Fegebank, 2nd Mayor and Science Senator of Hamburg, Univ.Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, President of the University of Hamburg and Prof. Volker Schomerus, jury chairman for the award, senior scientist at DESY and spokesman of the Wolfgang Pauli Centre.

Award-winning project "Language support projects for young people aged 10-16": Project "LITALPHA" of the LehrLernwerkstatt Fach, Sprache, Migration of the University of Bremen. In the photo: Katja Baginski (center), pedagogical director LehrLernwerkstatt, Dr. Nina Lemmens (right), former board member of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Dr. des. Aylin Karabulut (left), University of Duisburg-Essen and CBDO Employers for Equality GmbH.

Award-winning project in the category "Language support projects for young adults aged 17-25": "Mission Klinik" from passage gGmbH. In the photo: Iris Beckmann-Schulz (center), head of the specialist unit "job-related German", Karin Ransberger (from right). Dr. Nina Lemmens (left), former board member of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Anja Kittlitz (from left), SchlaU-Werkstatt für Migrationspädagogik gGmbH Munich, Martina Reynders (right), Head of the Center for Language Education Berlin.

Author Saša Stanišić, winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the German Book Prize, among others, gave the keynote speech "There is no word for all words."

All award winners on stage at the Opernloft in Hamburg-Altona with the former director of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Dr. Nina Lemmens, and prize speaker Saša Stanišić.

Nicola Spaldin, materials researcher at ETH Zurich, receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2022.

The winner of the German Business Award 2022, Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel, in the Great Council Chamber of Hamburg City Hall.

(from left to right): Björn Bos, 2nd place "Best Contribution by a Young Scientist," Dr. Andreas Gerster, 1st place, Prof. Dr.-.Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Chairwoman of the Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation, Prof. Andreas Löschel, winner of "Best Research Work by an Established Scientist," Katharina Fegebank, 2nd Mayor and Science Senator of Hamburg, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Linus Mattauch, 3rd place, and Dr. Nina Lemmens, former Executive Director of the Joachim Herz Foundation.

The three award winners in the category "Best Contributions by Young Scientists": (from left) Björn Bos, 2nd place, Dr. Andreas Gerster and (in absentia) Stefan Lamp, PhD, 1st place and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Linus Mattauch and (in absentia) Jiaxin Zhao, 3rd place.

Andreas Löschel, 2022 award winner, in an exchange with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst, Chairwoman of the Board of the Joachim Herz Foundation, and Katharina Fegebank, 2nd Mayor and Science Senator of Hamburg.

Martina Sandrock was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Joachim Herz Foundation as of Jan. 1, 2022.

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Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

String theorist Edward Witten is awarded the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

Nicola Spaldin receives the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

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Laureate Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2023

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Award ceremony Megafon - Prize for language education and promotion of adolescents and young adults

Laureate Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics

German Business Award 2022 ceremony

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