Prof. Dr. Bert Sakmann
… was appointed scientific member of the Max Planck Society in 1983 and was director of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research from 1988. Since 2008, he has headed the Emeritus Group “Cortical column in silico” at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried. In 1991, together with Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Erwin Neher, Sakmann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for discoveries concerning the single ion channels in cell membranes.”
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. mult. Robert Huber
… was director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried from 1972 to 2005 and today heads the Emeritus Group “Structure Research.” He is also co-founder of the biotech companies Proteros and SuppreMol. In 1988, Prof. Huber, together with Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hartmut Michel and Prof. Dr. Johann Deisenhofer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center.”
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch
… was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching in 1986 and today heads the Emeritus Group “Laser Spectroscopy”. Furthermore, he was involved in founding the Martinsried-based Menlo Systems GmbH at the IZB. In 2005 Prof. Hänsch, together with his colleague Prof. Dr. John L. Hall, received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.”
