Aronson Prize

The Aronson Prize () is a prize awarded for achievements in microbiology and immunology. It was established by the will of the German pediatrician and bacteriologist Hans Aronson and has been awarded since 1921. Aronson bequeathed a large part of his estate to the establishment of the prize. The prize is awarded biannually on 8 March, the date of Aronson's death.

In 1969, the foundation that awarded the prize was dissolved on the initiative of its last chairman Georg Henneberg, and the responsibility for the prize and the remaining capital was transferred to the (West) Berlin government, in order to safeguard the existence of the prize. Since 1970, the prize has been awarded by the Senate of Berlin.

The first laureate was August von Wassermann. Among the Aronson laureates are several scientists who later were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, such as Karl Landsteiner and Gerhard Domagk.Georg Henneberg: Die Geschichte der Stiftung für experimentelle Therapie – Aronson-Stiftung, Berlin, 1980

Laureates

1921 August von Wassermann 1926 Karl Landsteiner

1931 Richard Otto

1944 Gerhard Domagk 1956 Helmut Ruska

1960 Paul Hans Karl Constantin Schmidt

1966 Peter GiesbrechtBerliner Mikrobiologische Gesellschaft: 100 Jahre Berliner Mikrobiologische Gesellschaft, p. 91 1967 Albert Herrlich 1968 Friedrich StaibDeutschsprachige Mykologische Gesellschaft: Professor Dr. med. Dr. med. vet. Friedrich Staib, 1925–2011

1971 or 1972 Werner KöhlerHe was refused permission to accept the prize by the East German communist regime, and the prize was handed over only in 1992.Werner Köhler, uni-rostock.de. 1971 or 1972 Werner Schäfer 1973 Ernst Richard HabermannPharmakologie, University of Giessen

1977 Werner KnappDeutsches Ärzteblatt: Geburtstage, A, Vol. 83, No. 48, 26 November 1986

1981 Walter Doerfler 1982 Volker Schirrmacher

1985 Volker ter Meulen

1987 Karin Mölling 1988 Stefan H. E. Kaufmann 1989 Hans-Dieter Klenk 1990 Dieter Bitter-Suermann 1991 Bernhard Fleckenstein 1992 Stefan Carl Wilhelm MeuerBundesärztekammer: 1992 Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Carl Wilhelm Meuer 1993 Ulrich KoszinowskiBerliner Zeitung: Aronson-Preis wird verliehen, 28 February 1994 1994 Thomas Hünig 1995 Otto HallerUniversitätsklinikum Freiburg: 1996 Thomas F. Meyer 1997 Bernhard FleischerDeutsches Ärzteblatt: Verleihungen, 1998 1998 Jürgen HeesemannLeopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften: Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr. Jürgen Heesemann 1999 Ernst Theodor RietschelVerleihung des Aronsonpreises im UKBF an zwei herausragende Wissenschaftler. 18 February 2000, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw-online.de). 2000 Andreas Radbruch 2001 Sucharit Bhakdi 2002 Wolfgang HammerschmidtDeutsches Ärzteblatt: Verleihungen, 2003

2007 Matthias ReddehaseCharité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin: Aronson-Wissenschaftspreis wird an der Charité verliehen , 28 November 2008 2008 Matthias Frosch

See also

List of medicine awards

References