2024 | Prof Dr Eva Viehmann (Mathematics)

Prof Dr Eva Viehmann received the Leibniz Prize in 2024 in recognition of her influential work in the area of arithmetic algebraic geometry as part of the Langlands programme. She is a contributing researcher in the Cluster of Excellence “Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure”.

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2013 | Prof Dr Frank Glorius (Chemistry)

Prof Dr Frank Glorius received the Leibniz Prize in 2013 as one of the world’s leading experts in the highly contested field of organic catalysis, and in particular, in the area of C-H bond activation. He was distinguished for his pioneering work in the application of C-H activation for the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, as well as for his significant contribution to developing the field of oxidative cross couplings catalysed with bivalent rhodium.

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2013 | Prof Dr Thomas Bauer (Islamic studies)

Prof Dr Thomas Bauer was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2013 for drawing a globally unique connection between philological interpretation and text editing using a broad, innovative approach that takes cultural- and mentality-historical considerations into account. His studies on literature of the Mamluk and Ottoman periods are considered groundbreaking as is his (re-)discovery of Islam as a “culture of ambiguity”.

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2009 | Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking (Mathematics)

The Leibniz Prize was awarded to Prof Dr Burkhard Wilking, a leading international differential geometer, in 2009 for his breakthroughs in classifying Riemannian manifolds of positive curvature, as well as in the area of convergence of the Ricci flow.

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2008 | Prof Dr Wolfgang Lück (Mathematics)

Prof Dr Wolfgang Lück, one of the world's most recognised representatives of algebraic topology, was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2008. From 1996 to 2010 he was active at the University of Münster.

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2006 | Prof Dr Klaus Mezger (Mineralogy)

Prof Dr Klaus Mezger receives the Leibniz Prize for the methods he and his team have developed to determine the age of rocks, and therefore of the Earth and other planets, much more accurately than was previously possible. From 1997 to 2009 he was active at the University of Münster.

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2005 | Prof Dr Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Modern and early modern history)

Prof Dr Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 2005 for her research on political and cultural movements in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Until 2021 she was active at the University of Münster.

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2003 | Prof Dr Dr hc Hubert Wolf (Catholic theology)

As a leading Catholic church historian, Prof Dr Hubert Wolf received the Leibniz Prize in 2003 for tying the subject of church history to the larger, interdisciplinary contexts of political and scientific history and for effectively evaluating massive amounts of source material.

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1999 | Prof Dr Dr hc Joachim Cuntz (Mathematics)

Prof Dr Joachim Cuntz was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1999 for his work in the field of function analysis and here in the C* algebras of operators, which are very important structures both mathematically and for physics.

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1999 | Prof Dr Hans-Christian Pape (Medicine)

Prof Dr Hans-Christian Pape received the Leibniz Prize in 1999 for his work on the plasticity of the visual system, the analysis of intrinsic properties of neurons in the cortex, thalamus and amygdala, their influence by neuromodulators as well as mechanisms of rhythmogenesis in the nervous system and the development of certain forms of epilepsy.

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1998 | Prof Dr Dietmar Vestweber (Cell biology)

Prof Dr Dietmar Vestweber was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1998 for his research into inflammatory processes. He holds a professorship for cell biology at the University of Münster and is also Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine.

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1992 | Prof Dr Christopher Deninger (Mathematics)

Prof Dr Christopher Deninger was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1992. He conducts research in the fields of number theory and arithmetic-algebraic geometry.

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1992 | Prof Dr Peter Schneider * (Mathematics)

Prof Dr Peter Schneider was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1992 during his time at the University of Cologne. He conducts research in the fields of number theory and geometry.

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1990 | Prof Dr Dieter Stöffler † (Planetology)

Prof Dr Dieter Stöffler received the Leibniz Prize in 1990. He was appointed Professor of Petrography and Mineralogy at the University of Münster in 1972, where he worked as Professor of Cosmic Mineralogy and Founding Director of the Institute of Planetology until 1993.

Dieter Stöffler passed away in April 2023.