The German Botanical Society awards several prizes to support and encourage young scientists.

Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Prize and Best-Paper-Prize

The Wilhem Pfeffer Prize [1] is being awarded biennially from funds of the Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Foundation for an outstanding PhD Thesis. The Prize for the Best Publiaction [2] will be awarded yearly from funds of the Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation.

Horst Wiehe Prize

The "Föderpreis der Horst-Wiehe-Stiftung" (Horst Wiehe Prize [3]) is being awarded every second year for an outstanding scientific work in the field of Botany.

The statutes for both awards are published in Botanica Acta, Vol. 104, A 9-10 (1991). The invitation for applications for the awards is being published in the journal "Plant Biology" (formerly: Botanica Acta).

Strasburger Prize

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first edition of the "Lehrbuch für Botanik" by E. Strasburger, F. Noll, H. Schenk and A.F.W. Schimper, the "Strasbuger Prize [4]" was created in 1994 by the Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart. Being awarded every second year for an outstanding and especially original botanical work of a scientist less than 35 years old, the Strasburger-Preis is endowed with € 2.500,-. The statutes are published in the journal "Botanica Acta", Vol. 106, A 5 (1993) and were revised in 2004. The invitation for applications is published in the journal "Plant Biology" (formerly: Botanica Acta).

Medal

In addition to the prizes for young scientists the DBG awards meritious persons with the Simon Schwendener Medal [5]

Wilhelm-Pfeffer Prize	|	Prize for the best Publication
Awarding procedure Statutes (in German) and board of the Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Foundation Awarded Scientists Life and Work of Wilhelm Pfeffer	|	Awarding procedure Statutes (in German) and board of the Wilhelm-Pfeffer-Foundation Awarded Scientists Life and Work of Wilhelm Pfeffer
Horst-Wiehe-Prize		Strasburger-Prize
Awarding procedure (in German) Statutes (in German) Awarded Scientists		Call for Nominees 2008 (pdf-file, 0,1 MB; in German only) Awarding procedure Statutes (pdf-file, 0,1 MB; in German) Awarded Scientists Life and Work of Eduard Strasburger

Medal of the DBG	|	Related Internet Links
Simon-Schwendener-Medal Who was Simon Schwendener?	|	Journal: Plant Biology
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