Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation

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About the Foundation

The Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation is an independent organisation of the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG). It promotes early career scientists working in plant sciences disciplines in an ideal and material manner.

Every other year the Foundation awards the Wilhelm Pfeffer-Prize to early career scientists. It also awards the prize for the best plant science paper in the years between the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prizes.

The Foundation is named after the famous plant physiologist Wilhelm Pfeffer and acts through its board.

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Descendant of plant scientist Wilhelm Pfeffer supports our Foundation

The president of the Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation, Severin Sasso, thanks Robert William Pfeffer (left) for his generous donation in front of a portrait of the plant scientist, Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845-1920) at Leipzig University. Photo: private

In May, Canadian Robert William Pfeffer, great-grandson of eminent plant scientist Wilhelm Pfeffer, visited the places in Leipzig, Germany, where the namesake of the Wilhelm Pfeffer Foundation had conducted his research at the turn of the 19th century. Robert William Pfeffer and his wife Martha Pfeffer presented a generous donation of 10,000 Euros to support the goals of the DBG's own foundation, which honors early-career plant scientists for outstanding research achievements. The foundation alternately awards the Wilhelm Pfeffer Prize for a Ph.D. thesis and the Prize for the Best Plant Science publication.

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