The Roentgen Medal 2020-2029

Professor Robert K. Feidenhans’l is a Physicist and science manager. Extraordinary research into the development of X-ray techniques for the atomic analysis of surfaces and X-ray imaging methods for the three-dimensional characterisation of the microstructure of materials.

Professor Patrick Cramer is a chemist and molecular biologist. He researches how cells read out information stored in the genome (gene transcription). He has been able to decode the three-dimensional structure of one of the largest enzymes in the cell nucleus and thereby elucidate key parts of the transcription mechanism. The decoding of the spatial structure of RNA polymerases and transcription are milestones in molecular biology. Patrick Cramer receives the Roentgen Medal 2023 for his groundbreaking research into decoding the gene transcription mechanism using X-ray methods.

Professor Beatriz Roldán Cuenya (born 1976 in Oviedo Spain) is a physicist at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.
She receives the Roentgen Medal in recognition of her pioneering work in understanding catalysis, especially electrocatalysis, and the associated possibilities for the use of new sustainable energy sources of the future.

Medical Physicist. Outstanding achievements in the development of intensity-modulated conformal radiotherapy. A number of procedures and techniques that today enable the precise irradiation of tumours in clinics around the world are based on the developments of Schlegel and his colleagues.

Astrophysicist. Extraordinary achievements in the field of X-ray astronomy and the study of the formation and evolution of distant galaxies, as well as the role of black holes as galaxy nucle.