The Academy of Sciences and Literature (German: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and promote culture.
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Members
The academy has members in three classes: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, literature and music. Each class has up to 50 full and 50 corresponding members.
Notable members have included Niels Bohr, Otto Hahn, Konrad Lorenz, Halldór Laxness, Heinrich Böll, and Jean-Marie Lehn.
Awards and foundations
Awards
The Academy grants several awards:
Academy Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate
Academy Award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for Innovative and Groundbreaking Research
Alfred Döblin Medal
Hans Gàl-Prize
Joachim Vogel Memorial Prize
Joseph Breitbach Prize
Leibniz Medal
Promotion Prize Biodiversity
Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music
Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Akademy Prize for Humanities
Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize
Wilhelm Lauer Prize
Foundations
Academy Foundation Mainz
Cultural Foundation | Stefan Schmitz
Kurt Ringger Foundation
Walter und Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose-Stiftung
Wilhelm Lauer Foundation
Research projects
Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts. Digital palaeography and systematic analysis of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs (German: Altägyptische Kursivschriften. Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen)
Augustine Lexicon (German: Augustinus-Lexikon)
Buber Correspondences Digital (German: Buber Korrespondenzen Digital)
Burchard's Decree Digital (German: Burchards Dekret Digital)
Collection of Sources on the History of German Social Policy 1867 to 1914 (German: Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1867 bis 1914)
Continuity of Research and Research of Continuity – Basic Research on Iron Age Settlement Archaeology in the Baltic Region (German: Forschungskontinuität und Kontinuitätsforschung. Siedlungsarchäologische Grundlagenforschung zur Eisenzeit im Baltikum)
Controversia et Confessio. Source Edition on Confession Formation and Confessionalisation (1548-1580). (German: Controversia et Confessio. Quellenedition zur Bekenntnisbildung und Konfessionalisierung [1548-1580])
The Corpus of Hittite Festive Rituals: State Administration of Cultic Life in Late Bronze Age Anatolia (German: Das Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale: staatliche Verwaltung des Kultwesens im spätbronzezeitlichen Anatolien)
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
Digital Dictionary of German Surnames; German: Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands) (DFD)
European Religious Peace Digital (German: Europäische Religionsfrieden Digital)