Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The Prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is named to honor his mother. The prize was first awarded in 1967.
Out of 74 Prize Recipients, 39(53%) have won Nobel Prize in Medicine(29) or Chemistry(10) subsequently. [1]It is regarded as one of the important precursors of future Nobel Prize award.
Recipients
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- 1967 Luis Leloir
- 1968 Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg
- 1969 Max Delbrück, Salvador E. Luria
- 1970 Albert Claude, George E. Palade, Keith R. Porter
- 1971 Hugh E. Huxley
- 1972 Stephen W. Kuffler
- 1973 Renato Dulbecco, Harry Eagle, Theodore T. Puck,
- 1974 Boris Ephrussi
- 1975 K. Sune D. Bergstrom, Bengt Samuelsson
- 1976 Seymour Benzer, Charles Yanofsky
- 1977 Michael Heidelberger, Elvin A. Kabat, Henry G. Kunkel
- 1978 David Hubel, Vernon Mountcastle, Torsten Wiesel
- 1979 Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
- 1980 Cesar Milstein
- 1981 Aaron Klug
- 1982 Barbara McClintock, Susumu Tonegawa
- 1983 Stanley Cohen, Viktor Hamburger, Rita Levi-Montalcini
- 1984 Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1985 Donald D. Brown, Mark Ptashne
- 1986 Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
- 1987 Günter Blobel
- 1988 Thomas R. Cech, Philip A. Sharp
- 1989 Alfred G. Gilman, Edwin G. Krebs
- 1990 Stephen Harrison, Michael G. Rossmann, Don C. Wiley
- 1991 Richard R. Ernst, Kurt Wüthrich
- 1992 Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Edward B. Lewis
- 1993 Nicole Le Douarin, Donald Metcalf
- 1994 Philippa Marrack, John W. Kappler
- 1995 Leland H. Hartwell
- 1996 Clay M. Armstrong, Bertil Hille
- 1997 Stanley B. Prusiner
- 1998 Arnold J. Levine, Bert Vogelstein
- 1999 Pierre Chambon, Robert Roeder, Robert Tjian
- 2000 H. Robert Horvitz, Stanley J. Korsmeyer
- 2001 Avram Hershko, Alexander Varshavsky
- 2002 James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
- 2003 Roderick MacKinnon
- 2004 Tony Hunter, Tony Pawson
- 2005 Ada Yonath
- 2006 Roger D. Kornberg
- 2007 Joseph G. Gall, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider
Notes
- ^ As of 2006.
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