Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize

The Klung Wilhelmy Science Award (from 1973 to 2001 called Otto-Klung-Award, 2001 to 2007 Otto-Klung-Weberbank-Award, 2007 to 2013 Klung-Wilhelmy-Weberbank-Award) is an annual German award in the field of science, alternating annually between the categories of chemistry and physics. This honour is bestowed upon outstanding younger German scientists under the age of 40.

The prizewinners are selected by permanent committees at the Institutes of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics at the Free University of Berlin, with additional input from professors at other universities. Proposals and nominations by nationally and internationally renowned scientists are also taken into consideration. Self-nominations will not be accepted.

The final decision on the selection recommendations is made by the following foundations: the Otto Klung Foundation at the Free University of Berlin and the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation. The stated aim of these foundations is to strengthen the promotion of outstanding scientific achievements and to reward internationally accredited innovative approaches. Five of the previously chosen prizewinners later received the Nobel Prize.

The prize was first awarded in 1973 by the Otto Klung Foundation. Since 2007, thanks to the cooperation with the Dr. Wilhelmy Foundation, the prize has become one of the highest privately funded scientific endowments in Germany. The annual award ceremony, which for many years has been held in November, is open to the public.

honored for his research on the synthesis of natural product inspired compounds for the fight against pathogenic bacteria and fundamental studies on bacterial virulence.

honored for his research on the interaction of Laser light with micro- and nanomechanical systems.

honored for his research in the field of physical chemistry, in particular for his pioneering studies of the electron movement in molecules at the subfemto second time scale.

honored for the development of the Fourier domain mode locked laser and its application to biomedical imaging, improving the performance of optical coherence tomography.

honored for his accomplishments in organometallic chemistry, and the late-stage fluorination of biomedically relevant molecules.

honored for his studies in the field of biophysics, especially for developing experiments on synthetic evolution and on biophysical applications of thermophoresis.

honored for his work in the field of functional organic nanostructures and of photo-switchable units.

honored for his work in computational astrophysics, in particular, on the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes.

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