Werner and Inge Grüter Award for successful science communication has been awarded to Ulrich Schnabel
The science journalist receives with € 10,000.00 prize for his successful work, through his writings on hot topics of multidisciplinary comprehensive view of natural and humanities for informed judgments.
Ulrich Schnabel studied physics and journalism at the University of Karlsruhe and the Free University of Berlin. After several stays abroad, he has worked since 1993 as editor-in-time knowledge of the department in his hometown Hamburg. He is one of the founders of the "nonfiction" in time. Since 2005 he has worked primarily as an author. His work was awarded the 2006 Georg von Holzbrinck prize for science journalism. Noteworthy is his book "The measurement of belief " that in 2009 the "Science Book of the Year" been selected.
The prize is awarded each year outstanding work in German on scientific areas that have the goal of making scientific results on the limits of the respective disciplines also to a wider audience. Preference is given to promote the disciplines of biological evolution, paleontology, marine biology, botany, and cosmology.
During the award ceremony on Oct 27, 2010, 18:30 clock, the Museum of Man and Nature in Munich-Nymphenburg, will give the winner the following short speech:
" The measurement of belief and other impossibilities. As you sit down as a science journalist between two stools. "
After being welcomed by the Director of the Museum of Man and Nature in Munich, Dr. Michael Apel, and the article entitled" Science and Public - pins for nonprofit educational support "by the founder, Professor Dr. med . Grüter Werner holds Professor Dr. Wolfgang Prinz, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, the eulogy for Mr. Ulrich Schnabel.
is then handed over the prize.
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Previous winners 1996: Matthias Glaubrecht, Peter Wellnhofer, Volker Sommer, Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, German Coordination Group for the International Year of the Reef (Chair: Reinhold Leinfelder), Friedemann Schrenk, Klaus Matt Heck, Uwe George, Bernhard Kegel, Harald Lesch, editors of the scientific series " Quarks & Co. "of the WDR television (Ranga Yogeshwar and employees), Günter Bräuer, Josef Reichholf, Patrick Illinger, Christian Wild, Philipe Havlik, Martin Meister, Ulf von Rauchhaupt, Ulrich Schnabel
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