Leibniz Prize recipients at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which is the short name for the "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft" (Award for German Scientists in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Program of the German Research Foundation), or the Leibniz Prize for short, is named after the scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). It has been awarded by the German Research Foundation every year since 1986 to scientists from different scientific fields working in Germany.

The prize is worth EUR 2.5 million (prior to 2006: EUR 1.55 million) for each recipient. The size of the monetary amount awarded makes the award the best endowed of all awards given for scientific achievement worldwide. The prize money must be used for project-related purposes, in particular the promotion of young scientists.

• 2005 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Immanuel F. Bloch, Experimental Physics

• 2005 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gauß, Theoretical Chemistry

• 1990 Univ.-Prof. Dr. Konrad Kleinknecht, Experimental Physics

• 1988 Prof. Dr. Hans Wolfgang Spiess, Physical Chemistry (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)