Potential candidates may be proposed by

• Scientists and scholars at the University of Heidelberg
• Universities abroad entertaining academic links with the University of Heidelberg
• The German Research Council, German and other academies of science, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Association for the Advancement of Science
• Leibniz Prize laureates
• Max Planck Research Prize laureates

Application for the Prize on one’s own behalf is not admissible.