{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Short description|German physicist}} {{like resume|date=October 2019}} '''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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Öffentlichkeitsarbeit |first=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- |title=Zippelius, Annette, Prof. Dr. - Theoretical Physics (Uni-Phy) - Georg-August-University Göttingen |url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/58063.html |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=Georg-August Universität Göttingen |language=de}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Öffentlichkeitsarbeit |first=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen- |title=About ITP - Georg-August-University Göttingen |url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/about+itp/219706.html |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=Georg-August Universität Göttingen |language=de}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1" /> Most recently, in 2023 she was awarded the University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen for her service to the university.<ref name=":1" />

== Career == Annette Zippelius studied Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. And in 1977, she finished her PhD at the Technical University München. From 1978 to 1980, she was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard University, and from 1980 to 1981 was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University.<ref name=":0" />

In 1983 she joined the Forschungszentrum Jülich as a researcher.<ref name=":0" />

She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Göttingen.<ref name=":0" />

== Awards and honors ==

* 1993: Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adw-goe.de/mitglieder/personendetails/person/annette-zippelius/|title=Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius:&nbsp;Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (AdW)|website=adw-goe.de|access-date=7 March 2019}}</ref> * 1998: Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)<ref name=":0" /> * 2002 – 2006: Member of the Executive Board of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)<ref name=":0" /> * 2005 – 2011: Member of [https://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/nc/en/about.html The German Council of Science and Humanities] (Wissenschaftsrat)<ref name=":0" /> * 2007 – 2014: Max-Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen<ref name=":0" /> * 2008: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society<ref name=":0" /> * 2022: Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dpg-physik.de/auszeichnungen/dpg-preise/max-planck-medaille/preistraeger|title=Max-Planck-Medal – Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger|publisher=German Physical Society|access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> * 2023: Awarded The University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen<ref name=":1" />

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