Dear DGM members,
Dear readers,
"Honors, that is when justice has its good day." This statement by Konrad Adenauer is more profound than it appears at first glance, as it not only reflects the satisfaction and joy of the person receiving an honor, but also demands justice from the honoree with regard to the awardees.
The DGM awards 13 awards, four of which are granted in relation to congresses or in conjunction with other institutions. For the remaining 9 awards, which are well known, especially to the participants of the DGM General Assembly, the nominations have so far been proposed by two award committees to the Executive Board, which usually follows these proposals. In the past decades, there have been evolutionary changes to the awards from time to time, for example the introduction of new awards to cover as many stages of a scientific career as possible, or the adaptation of the composition of the committees to the structure of the membership. Triggered not least by the broadening of the thematic areas represented by the DGM (one needs to think only of the various classes of materials), the Advisory Board and the Executive Board have recognized that a fundamental change in the practice of selecting the nominations from the proposals received makes sense. ...more
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Christ