Three outstanding researchers have been nominated for the second competition of the Heisig Prize. The laureate and the winner of the PLN 200,000 prize will be announced on 2 October at the University of Wrocław. The award is to honour Polish scientists who conduct research at the highest level and whose discoveries change the world.
This year’s nominees are Prof. Mariusz Jaskólski of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań – chemical sciences, X-ray crystallography, Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak of Łódź University of Technology – technical sciences, mechanics and electronics, and Prof. Lechosław Latos-Grażyński of Wrocław University – chemical sciences, organic chemistry.
The founder of the award, Prof. Norbert Heisig, is a German physician who was born in Breslau in 1933. He combined his medical studies with classical philology at the universities of Freiburg, Tübingen and Hamburg. He retired in 2000 and became involved in supporting the academic community of the University of Wrocław.
