Otto Warburg Medal

The Otto Warburg Medal is awarded annually by the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (German: Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie or GBM) to honour scientists who have contributed important work in the field of biological chemistry. It is named after Otto Warburg, a renowned German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate. It was first awarded on his 80th birthday on 8 October 1963.^[1]

Up to 2025, ten Warburg Medal recipients have also been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Medallists

Source: GBM

• 1963 – Feodor Lynen ¹⁹⁶⁴
• 1965 – Kurt Mothes [de]
• 1968 – Michael Sela
• 1969 – Hans Adolf Krebs ¹⁹⁵³ & Carl Martius [de]
• 1972 – Ernst Klenk
• 1973 – Hans Leo Kornberg
• 1974 – Theodor Bücher [de]
• 1975 – Helmut Holzer [de]
• 1976 – Heinz-Günter Wittmann
• 1977 – Robert Huber ¹⁹⁸⁸
• 1978 – Wilhelm Stoffel [de]
• 1979 – Lothar Jaenicke [de]
• 1980 – Charles Weissmann
• 1981 – Martin Klingenberg [de]
• 1982 – Rodulf Rott [de]
• 1983 – Günter Blobel ¹⁹⁹⁹
• 1984 – Rudolf K. Thauer
• 1985 – Peter Starlinger [de]
• 1986 – Julius Adler
• 1987 – Shosaku Numa
• 1988 – Gottfried Schatz
• 1989 – Hans Georg Zachau [de]
• 1990 – Horst Tobias Witt [de]
• 1991 – Dieter Oesterhelt
• 1992 – Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard ¹⁹⁹⁵
• 1993 – Max Perutz ¹⁹⁶²
• 1994 – Helmut Beinert
• 1995 – August Böck [de]
• 1996 – Walter Jakob Gehring
• 1997 – Klaus Weber
• 1998 – Wolfgang Baumeister
• 1999 – Kurt Wüthrich ²⁰⁰²
• 2000 – Walter Neupert [de]
• 2001 – James Rothman ²⁰¹³
• 2002 – Kurt von Figura [de]
• 2003 – Alfred Wittinghofer
• 2004 – Tom Rapoport
• 2005 – Axel Ullrich
• 2006 – Konrad Sandhoff [de]
• 2007 – Robert Weinberg
• 2008 – Susan Lindquist
• 2009 – Franz-Ulrich Hartl
• 2010 – Ari Helenius
• 2011 – Peter Walter
• 2012 – Alexander Varshavsky
• 2013 – Randy Schekman ²⁰¹³
• 2014 – Rudolf Jaenisch
• 2015 – Nikolaus Pfanner [de]
• 2016 – Emmanuelle Charpentier ²⁰²⁰
• 2017 – Stefan Jentsch (posthumously) ^[2]
• 2018 – Peter Hegemann^[3]
• 2019 – Marina Rodnina^[4]
• 2020 – Patrick Cramer^[5]
• 2021 – Petra Schwille^[6]
• 2022 – Stefanie Dimmeler^[7]
• 2023 – Matthias Mann
• 2024 – Johannes Buchner^[8]
• 2025 – Matthias Hentze^[9]

See also

• List of biochemistry awards
• List of biology awards
• List of awards named after people