The Hans Sigrist Prize is awarded by the Hans Sigrist Foundation, at the University of Bern in Switzerland. The Foundation's benefactor Hans Sigrist died on December 30, 1982. The Foundation was founded in 1993. The Foundation's first award was presented in 1994.[1]
The Hans Sigrist Prize is for mid-career researchers in order to boost those researcher's potential impact. Every year, the Foundation asks faculty members at the University of Bern to propose a prize field. The Foundation board chooses a field from those proposals and selects a chair for the prize search committee. Two former Hans Sigrist prize winners have gone on to win Nobel prizes later in their careers.
The Hans Sigrist Doctoral Fellowship is an up to three year Fellowship for doctoral candidates at the University of Bern. Its field changes with the field chosen for that year's Hans Sigrist Prize.
| Year | Field | Hans Sigrist Prize Winner | Hans Sigrist Fellow |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Computer Science | Aaron Roth[2] | |
| 2020 | Physiology | Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri[3][4] | |
| 2019 | Astrophysics | Ignas Snellen[5][6] | |
| 2018 | Sustainable Animal Farming | Marina Von Keyserlingk[7] | |
| 2017 | History and Religion | Heleen Murre-van den Berg[8] | |
| 2016 | Climate studies | Gabriele Hegerl[9] | Stamatina Makri |
| 2015 | Antibiotic Resistance | Luciano Marraffini[10] | Odette Bernasconi |
| 2014 | History | Jennifer Klein[11] | Mathieu Lavoyer |
| 2013 | Stem Cell Biology | Yoshiki Sasai | William Hariton |
| 2012 | Biophotonics | Stephen Boppart[12] | Kai Gerrrit Held |
| 2011 | Political Economy | Nicola Lacey[13] | Anna Conninx |
| 2010 | No prize awarded | David Weibel
Bartholomaus Wissmath | |
| 2009 | Neuroscience | Patrik Vuilleumier | Johannes Klein |
| 2008 | Ancient sites | Andreas Feldtkeller | |
| 2007 | No prize awarded | Friederike Zeeh | |
| 2006 | Ecology | David M. Richardson | Oliver Bossdorf |
| 2005 | Genetics | Stephen Elledge | Georg Lutz |
| 2004 | Public Policy | Christopher Pollitt[14] | Sacha Zala |
| 2003 | Politics and Religion | Emilio Gentile | Claudia Spadavecchia |
| 2002 | Microbes | Jorge Galàn | Erik Vassella |
| 2001 | Alzheimer ́s disease | Jan Johansson[15] | Ohad S. Parnas |
| 2000 | Biblical Gender Studies | Elsa Tamez[16] | Lorenz E. Baumer |
| 1999 | Gender History | Joan W. Scott | Werner Eugster |
| 1998 | Biochemistry | Gerald F. Joyce | Eliane Marti |
| 1997 | RNA | Jack W. SzostakN | Andreas Lienhard |
| 1996 | Frantisek Smahel | Petra S. Hueppi | |
| 1995 | Healthcare Cost Research | Joseph P. Newhouse | |
| 1994 | H. Robert HorvitzN | Michael Gerfin |
N Later won a Nobel Prize
References
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- ^ "Hans Sigrist Prize Winners". The Hans Sigrist Foundation. 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "Exoplanet researcher awarded for groundbreaking work". ZME Science. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Ignas Snellen", Wikipedia (in Dutch), 2018-02-21, retrieved 2020-09-04
- ^ Beaver, Annabelle; Proudfoot, Kathryn L.; von Keyserlingk, Marina A.G. (2020-06-01). "Symposium review: Considerations for the future of dairy cattle housing: An animal welfare perspective". Journal of Dairy Science. 103 (6): 5746–5758. doi:10.3168/jds.2019-17804. ISSN 0022-0302. PMID 32147258.
- ^ "Hans Sigrist Prize for Professor Heleen Murre-van den Berg". Deutsch | Studieren in Nimwegen (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Prof Gabriele Hegerl Wins 2016 Hans Sigrist Prize | School of GeoSciences". www.geos.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Luciano Marraffini". Our Scientists. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Historian Jennifer Klein wins Hans Sigrist Prize". Yale School of Management. 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Stephen Boppart wins Hans Sigrist Prize". spie.org. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "Trustee: Professor Nicola Lacey FBA CBE". The British Museum. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ "International Review of Administrative Services". doi:10.1177/0020852318792769. S2CID 158682435.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Sigrist, Hans; Zahler, Peter (1978). "Characterization of phenylisothiocyanate as a hydrophobic membrane label". FEBS Letters. 95 (1): 116–120. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(78)80064-7. PMID 720590. S2CID 46601243.
- ^ "Community Conversation with Elsa Tamez".
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