Six young researchers will each receive 16,000 as recipients of the 2005 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). This was decided by the DFG's Executive Committee at its meeting on 17 March in Dresden. The prize is presented annually to six young researchers in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements in their field. Of the 94 candidates, this year's prizewinners include a mathematician, a botanist, a dermatologist, a Germanist, an astrophysicist and an Anglicist. The prize represents both recognition of their scientific achievements to date as well as a stimulus to continue to excel in the future.

The prize, which has been awarded since 1977, is named after the former DFG President and nuclear physicist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz. The prize is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and is awarded by the DFG. After a multi-stage selection process, 41 candidates were shortlisted, including 9 humanists and social scientists, 15 life scientists, 7 physicists, mathematicians and geoscientists, 4 chemists and process engineers, and 6 engineers. Twelve of the 41 shortlisted candidates were women.

The prizewinners are:

Dr. Valentin Blomer (27), Department of Mathematics, University of Gttingen

Valentin Blomer is interested in analytic number theory. He analyses the frequency of whole numbers occurring below a given boundary which fulfil certain characteristics using methods from analysis and functions theory rather like determining how many keys of a certain size fit a particular lock: the smaller the number of keys which fit, the more unique the lock. Similarly, the more unique a number is, the more useful it is for encrypting information such as sensitive messages. One of the scientist's most impressive achievements has been to disprove one of the conjectures proposed by the famous mathematician, Paul Erds. This conjecture proposes th
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Contact: Dr. Eva-Maria Streier
em.streier@dfg.de
49-228-885-2250
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
29-Mar-2005

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