Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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V.3 Honors and Awards
Ernst Patzer Prize
The annually presented Ernst Patzer Prizes are honouring
the best publications produced in the course of
doctoral studies or in the following postdoc phase. The
publications must have been published in a refereed
journal. The selection committee consists of two scientists
from MPIA and one additional external scientist
from Heidelberg.
The Award was donated by the art-lover and philosopher
Ernst Patzer and established by his widow.
It is intended to support junior scientists. The Foundation
awards its prizes to young researchers at the
MPIA and other institutes in Heidelberg and wishes to
support science and research particularly in the field
of astronomy.
This year’s prize winners were:
Elisabetta Caffau, Postdoc at the Center for Astronomy
of Heidelberg University (ZAH), for her paper “An
extremely primitive star in the Galactic halo” (2011,
Nature 477, 67–69).
Alexander Karim, IMPRS PhD student at MPIA, for
his publication “The star formation history of mass-selected
galaxies in the CosMos field” (2011, Astrophysical
Journal 730(2), 1–31).
Fig. V.3.2: Alexander Karim
Fig. V.3.1: Elisabetta Caffau Fig. V.3.3: Andreas Schruba