European Latsis Prize
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The European Latsis Prize is awarded annually by the European Science Foundation
for "outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research". The prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded within a different discipline each year. The prize was inaugurated in 1999 by the Latsis Foundation
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European Science Foundation
The European Science Foundation is an association of 78 member organisations devoted to scientific research in 30 European countries. It is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organisation that facilitates cooperation and collaboration in European research and development, European...
for "outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research". The prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded within a different discipline each year. The prize was inaugurated in 1999 by the Latsis Foundation
Latsis Foundation
The Latsis Foundation is a charitable foundation, founded in 1975 by the Greek shipping magnate John Latsis. Amongst other prizes and symposia, it funds the European Latsis Prize and it has endowed the Lakatos Award. The foundation is based in Geneva....
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European Latsis Prize Laureates
- 1998 (Electron Microscopy)—Pierre A. Stadelmann
- 1999 (Research and/or Innovation in Education)—Jürgen Baumert
- 2000 (Molecular Structure)—Kenneth HolmesKenneth HolmesKenneth Charles Holmes FRS is a British scientist.He was born in Hammersmith, London. He was a former colleague of Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College with Aaron Klug, and John Finch and moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge in 1962...
- 2001 (Climate Research)—André BergerAndré BergerAndré Léon Georges Chevalier Berger is a Belgian professor and climatologist. He is best known for his significant contribution to the renaissance and further development of the Astronomical Theory of Paleoclimates and as a cited pioneer of the interdisciplinary study of climate dynamics and...
- 2002 (Cognitive Sciences)—Annette Karmiloff-SmithAnnette Karmiloff-SmithAnnette Karmiloff-Smith is a professorial research fellow at the Developmental Neurocognition Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. Before moving to Birbeck, she was Head of the Neurocognitive Development Unit at Institute of Child Health, University College, London...
- 2003 (ArchaeologyArchaeologyArchaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
)—Colin Renfrew - 2004 (BioinformaticsBioinformaticsBioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
)—Amos BairochAmos BairochAmos Bairoch is a Swiss bioinformatician, born 22 November 1957.Bairoch is currently professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Structural biology and Bioinformatics of the University of Geneva and group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics... - 2005 (Nano-engineeringNanotechnologyNanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...
)—Donal BradleyDonal BradleyDonal Donat Conor Bradley, CBE, FRS, FRSA, is Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London. He is director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and from October 2011 will also be a pro rector at the college.... - 2006 (Immigration and Social Cohesion in Modern Societies)—Rainer Bauböck
- 2007 (Medical Imaging)—Willi KalenderWilli KalenderWilli A. Kalender is a medical physicist credited with the invention and development of spiral scan computed tomography.He received his Master's Degree and Ph.D...
- 2008 (Astrophysics)—Simon WhiteSimon WhiteProfessor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :...
- 2009 (The Human Brain – The Human Mind)—Uta FrithUta FrithUta Frith FRS FBA is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She has pioneered much of the current research in autism and dyslexia, and has written several books on these issues. Her book 'Autism: Explaining the Enigma'...
, Chris FrithChris FrithChristopher Donald Frith is professor emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London and a Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark... - 2010 (Biodiversity)—Ilkka HanskiIlkka HanskiIlkka A. Hanski FRS is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of ecology, at Helsinki University, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Group led by Hanski has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland...