Kavli Prize

The Kavli Prize
The 2014 Astrophysics laureates shortly after being presented with their awards
Awarded foroutstanding contributions in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience.
CountryNorway
Presented by
Reward(s)A gold medal, a scroll, and a monetary award of US$1,000,000
First award2008
Number of laureates21 prizes to 54 laureates (as of 2021)
Websitehttp://www.kavliprize.no

The Kavli Prize was established in 2005 as a joint venture of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation. It honors, supports, and recognizes scientists for outstanding work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Three prizes are awarded every second year. Each of the three Kavli Prizes consists of a gold medal, a scroll, and a cash award of US$1,000,000. The medal has a diameter of 70 millimetres (2.8 in), a thickness of 5 millimetres (0.20 in), and weighs 311 grams (11.0 oz).[1][2]

The first Kavli Prizes were awarded on 9 September 2008 in Oslo, presented by Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway.

Selection committees

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three prize committees consisting of leading international scientists after receiving recommendations made from the following organisations:

Laureates

Astrophysics

Year Laureate Institution Country Citation
2008 Maarten Schmidt California Institute of Technology Netherlands "for their seminal contributions to understanding the nature of quasars"
Donald Lynden-Bell Cambridge University United Kingdom
2010 Jerry E. Nelson Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz United States "for their contributions to the development of giant telescopes"
Raymond N. Wilson European Southern Observatory, Garching United Kingdom
James Roger Angel Steward Observatory, University of Arizona United States
2012 David C. Jewitt University of California Los Angeles United Kingdom United States "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system"
Jane X. Luu Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vietnam United States
Michael E. Brown California Institute of Technology United States
2014 Alan H. Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation"
Andrei D. Linde Stanford University Russia United States
Alexei A. Starobinsky Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Russia
2016 Ronald W.P. Drever California Institute of Technology United Kingdom "for the direct detection of gravitational waves"[3]
Kip S. Thorne California Institute of Technology United States
Rainer Weiss Massachusetts Institute of Technology Germany United States
2018 Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden University Netherlands "for her combined contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry, elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets"[4][5]
2020 Andrew Fabian University of Cambridge United Kingdom "for his groundbreaking research in the field of observational X-ray astronomy, covering a wide range of topics from gas flows in clusters of galaxies to supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies"[6]
2022 Roger Ulrich University of California, Los Angeles United States "for their pioneering work and leadership in the development of helio- and asteroseismology"
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus University Denmark
Conny Aerts KU Leuven Belgium
2024 Sara Seager Massachusetts Institute of Technology Canada United States "for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres"
David Charbonneau Harvard University Canada United States

Nanoscience

Year Laureate Institution Country Citation
2008 Louis E. Brus Columbia University United States "for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry and biology"
Sumio Iijima Meijo University Japan
2010 Donald Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center United States "for their development of unprecedented methods to control matter on the nanoscale"
Nadrian C. Seeman New York University United States
2012 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States "for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures"
2014 Thomas W. Ebbesen University of Strasbourg Norway France "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging"
Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Germany
John B. Pendry Imperial College London United Kingdom
2016 Gerd Binnig IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Germany "for the invention and realization of atomic force microscopy, a breakthrough in measurement technology and nanosculpting that continues to have a transformative impact on nanoscience and technology"[7]
Christoph Gerber University of Basel Switzerland
Calvin Quate Stanford University United States
2018 Emmanuelle Charpentier Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology France Germany "for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine"[8][5]
Jennifer Doudna University of California, Berkeley United States
Virginijus Šikšnys Vilnius University Lithuania
2020 Harald Rose Universität Ulm Germany "for sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams"[9]
Maximilian Haider CEOS GmbH Austria
Knut Urban Forschungszentrum Jülich Germany
Ondrej Krivanek Nion Co United Kingdom Czech Republic
2022 Jacob Sagiv Weizmann Institute of Science Israel "for Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on solid substrates; molecular coatings to control surface properties"
Ralph Nuzzo University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States
David Allara Pennsylvania State University United States
George M. Whitesides Harvard University United States
2024 Robert S. Langer Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States "for pioneering work integrating synthetic nanoscale materials with biological function for biomedical applications"
Armand Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago United States
Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University United States

Neuroscience

Year Laureate Institution Country Citation
2008 Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute Sweden "for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits"
Thomas Jessell Columbia University United Kingdom United States
Pasko Rakic Yale University School of Medicine Serbia United States
2010 Richard H. Scheller Genentech United States "for discovering the molecular basis of neurotransmitter release"
Thomas C. Südhof Stanford University School of Medicine Germany
James E. Rothman Yale University United States
2012 Cornelia Isabella Bargmann Rockefeller University United States "for elucidating basic neuronal mechanisms underlying perception and decision"
Winfried Denk Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Germany
Ann M. Graybiel Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
2014 Brenda Milner Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Canada "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition"
John O’Keefe University College London United Kingdom
Marcus E. Raichle Washington University in St. Louis United States
2016 Eve Marder Brandeis University United States "for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function"[10]
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco United States
Carla J. Shatz Stanford University United States
2018 A. James Hudspeth Rockefeller University United States "for their scientific discoveries of the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing"[11][5]
Robert Fettiplace University of Wisconsin–Madison United Kingdom United States
Christine Petit Collège de France France
2020 David Julius University of California, San Francisco United States "for their transformative discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure".[12]
Ardem Patapoutian Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Lebanon United States
2022 Jean-Louis Mandel University of Strasbourg France "for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of brain disorders"
Harry T. Orr University of Minnesota Medical School United States
Huda Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine Lebanon United States
Christopher A. Walsh Harvard Medical School United States
2024 Nancy Kanwisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States "for the discovery of a highly localized and specialized system for representation of faces in human and non-human primate neocortex"
Winrich Freiwald Rockefeller University Germany United States
Doris Ying Tsao University of California, Berkeley United States

See also

  • List of general science and technology awards
  • List of astronomy awards
  • List of neuroscience awards
  • The Brain Prize
  • Golden Brain Award
  • Gruber Prize in Neuroscience
  • W. Alden Spencer Award
  • Karl Spencer Lashley Award
  • Mind & Brain Prize
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience

References

  1. ^ Yngvar Reichelt: «Kavlimedaljen», NNF-Nytt. Norsk numismatisk tidsskrift, nr. 3, 2010, s. 21–25.
  2. ^ The Kavli Foundation (n.d.). "Kavli Prize Medal". Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  3. ^ "2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics | www.kavliprize.org". www.kavliprize.org. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. ^ "2018 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics | www.kavliprize.org". Kavil Prize. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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