Annette Zippelius

Annette Zippelius (born 25 June 1949) is a German physicist, Leibniz Prize winner and an emeritus professor from the University of Göttingen known for her research on complex fluids and soft matter. In 1988 she was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, making her the first woman to be appointed as a professor of C4 physics in Germany. And in 1998, She was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for the construction of an exact network-model with the functioning proprieties of an associative memory.

1998: Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2023: Awarded The University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen