Nobel Prizes in the Helmholtz Association
Below you will find an overview of the Nobel Prizes awarded to scientists in the Helmholtz Association.
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008
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- Nobel prize winner Prof. Dr. Dr. Harald zur Hausen. Image: DKFZ
Professor Dr. Dr. hc. mult. Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008. Professor zur Hausen investigated at the Helmholtz Association’s German Cancer Research Center how cervical cancer is caused by viral infections. His research led to the development of a vaccine against the third most common cancer in women. Zur Hausen has been awarded one half of the Nobel Prize, with the other half going to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Press Release 6.10.2008 'Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Helmholtz researcher'
Press Release 6.10.2008 'Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Harald zur Hausen'
Audio-File Pressconference 6.10.2008 in Heidelberg as mp3 (in German)
Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 was awarded to the German solid state physicist Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg from the Helmholtz Research Centre in Jülich. Grünberg shares the award with his colleague Albert Fert (Paris-Sud University) for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. In 1988, both scientists discovered this physical effect independently of each other.
Press Release 9.10.2007 'Nobel Prize in Physics for Helmholtz Scientist'
Press Release 9.10.2007 FZJ 'Nobelpreis für Peter Grünberg'
Video Peter Grünberg lecture 8.12.2007
Audio Interview with Peter Grünberg and Albert Fert 6.12.2007 as mp3 (in German)
Nobel Peace Prize 2007
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The Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert A. Gore the Nobel Peace Prize 2007. The researchers and the politician received the prize for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. Over 2000 scientists contributed to the 2007 IPCC-Report, among them many researchers from the Helmholtz Association. Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association was Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter 'Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground'.
Press Realease 12.10.2007 'Friedensnobelpreis für Klimaforscher' (in German)
