Recipients "Preis für Instrumenten-Entwicklung"
| Year | Recipient | Institute | Titel of talk |
| 2025 | Dr. Uwe Grupp | MPE Garching | EUCLID - About razor-sharp images and the ingredients that made those possible |
| 2023 | Prof. Dr. Frank Eisenhauer | MPE Garching | Astronomy at Highest Angular Resolution - Adaptive Optics, Interferometry and Black Holes |
| 2021 | Prof. Dr. Martin Roth | Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) | 25 Years of Integral Field Spectroscopy in Potsdam |
| 2019 | Prof. Dr. Erik Høg, Prof. Dr. Michael Perryman, Prof. Dr. Lennart |
Kopenhagen, Dänemark Bath, England Lund, Schweden |
The road from meridian circles to Gaia and beyond |
| 2017 | Dr. Albrecht Poglitsch | MPE, Garching | "Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es" - Reflections on progress in astronomical instrumentation |
