International Prize (Fyssen Foundation)
Encyclopedia
The International Prize of the Fyssen Foundation
is a scientific award
that has been given annually since 1980 to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the foundation such as ethology
, palaeontology, archaeology
, anthropology
, psychology
, epistemology, logic
and the neurosciences.
Fyssen Foundation
The Fyssen Foundation is a French charitable organization that was established and endowed in 1979 by H. Fyssen. The aim of the foundation is to stimulate research into the processes underlying and leading to cognition, including work in such disciplines as ethology, paleontology, archaeology,...
is a scientific award
Award
An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...
that has been given annually since 1980 to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the foundation such as ethology
Ethology
Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology....
, palaeontology, archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology, 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...
, anthropology
Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
, psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
, epistemology, logic
Logic
In philosophy, Logic is the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning. Logic is used in most intellectual activities, but is studied primarily in the disciplines of philosophy, mathematics, semantics, and computer science...
and the neurosciences.
List of awardees
- André Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-GourhanAndré Leroi-Gourhan was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.- Biography :...
(1980) - William H. Thorpe (1981)
- Vernon B. Mountcastle (1982)
- Harold C. Conklin (1983)
- Roger W. BrownRoger W. BrownRoger W. Brown was an American lawyer and Judge on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City and the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City.-Background:...
(1984) - Pierre Buser (1985)
- David PilbeamDavid PilbeamDavid Pilbeam is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D...
(1986) - David PremackDavid PremackDavid Premack is currently emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the University of Minnesota when logical positivism was in full bloom. The departments of Psychology and Philosophy were closely allied...
(1987) - Jean-Claude Gardin (1988)
- Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic (1989)
- Jack GoodyJack GoodySir John Rankine Goody is a British social anthropologist. He has been a prominent teacher at Cambridge University, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and he is an associate of the US National Academy of Sciences...
(1990) - George A. MillerGeorge A. MillerGeorge Armitage Miller is the author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" published in 1956 in Psychological Review...
(1991) - Pasko Rakic (1992)
- L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1993)
- Lila R. GleitmanLila R. GleitmanLila Gleitman is a Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an internationally-renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children's learning of their first language. Gleitman received a B.A. in...
(1994) - William D. Hamilton (1995)
- Colin Renfrew (1996)
- Michel JouvetMichel JouvetMichel Valentin Marcel Jouvet is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Lyon. He spent one year in the laboratory of the Horace Magoun in Long Beach, California in 1955...
(1997) - Alan Walker (1998)
- Brent BerlinBrent BerlinOverton Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist, most noted for his work with linguist Paul Kay on color, Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution .He originally received his Ph.D...
(1999) - Joaquin FusterJoaquin FusterJoaquin M. Fuster is a neuroscientist whose research has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behavior. His several books and hundreds of papers, particularly on memory and the prefrontal cortex, are widely cited.Born in Barcelona,...
(2000) - Peter Marler (2001)
- Philip Johnson-LairdPhilip Johnson-LairdPhilip Johnson-Laird is a professor at Princeton University's Department of Psychology and author of several notable books on human cognition and the psychology of reasoning....
(2002) - Michael I. Posner (2003)
- Michael TomaselloMichael TomaselloMichael Tomasello is an American developmentalpsychologist. He is a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.-Life:...
(2004) - Joseph E. LeDouxJoseph E. LeDouxJoseph E. LeDoux is a neuroscientist, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University. He is also the director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety, a multi-university Center in New York City devoted to using...
(2005) - Lewis BinfordLewis BinfordLewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period...
(2006) - Randolf Menzel (2007)
- Simha AromSimha AromSimha Arom is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African Republic. His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field...
(2008) - 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...
(2009) - Amotz ZahaviAmotz ZahaviAmotz Zahavi is an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel...
(2010)