Wittgenstein Award Laureate

2010 Wolfgang Lutz

Demographie

2009 Jürgen Knoblich

2009 Gerhard Widmer

2008 Markus Arndt

Quantum nanophysics

2007 Christian Krattenthaler

Enumerative Combinatorics and Algebraic Combinatorics

2007 Rudolf Zechner

Lipid-induced Cell Dysfunction and Cell Death

2006 Jörg Schmiedmayer

The Atom Chip: Bringing Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics on a Chip, TU Wien

2005 Barry Dickson

The development and function of neural circuits

2005 Rudolf Grimm

Atomic and molecular quantum gases

2004 Walter Pohl

Early Mediaeval History and Culture

2003 Renée Schroeder

RNA folding and catalysis, RNA-binding antibiotics

2002 Ferenc Krausz

Quantum optics: ultrafast and high-field processes

2001 Heribert Hirt

Cell cycle control in plants

2001 Meinrad Busslinger

Molecular mechanisms of lineage commitment in the hematopoietic system

2000 Peter Markowich

Applied Mathematics

2000 Andre Gingrich

Social and Cultural Anthropology

1999 Kim Ashley Nasmyth

Yeast cell cycle

1998 Peter Zoller

Theoretical quantum optics and quantum information

1998 Walter Schachermayer

Stochastic processes in finance

1998 Georg Gottlob

Informationsystems and artificial intelligence

1997 Marjori & Antonius Matzke

Epigenetic silencing of plant transgenes

1997 Erich Gornik

semiconductor nanoelectronics

1996 Erwin Wagner

Morphogenesis of the vertebrate face

1996 Ruth Wodak

Discourse, Politics, Identity