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 and ended in 2012. The prize was awarded in a different scientific field.
Laureates
edit| Year | Awardee | Country | Chosen Field | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Jürgen Baumert |  Germany
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"Research and/or Innovation in Education"[1] | |
| 2000 | Kenneth Holmes | Germany United Kingdom
|
"Molecular Structure"[2] | |
| 2001 | André Berger[3] |  Belgium
|
"Climate Research" | |
| 2002 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith | United Kingdom
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"Cognitive Sciences" | |
| 2003 | Colin Renfrew[4] | United Kingdom
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"Archaeology" | |
| 2004 | Amos Bairoch[5] |  Switzerland
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"Bioinformatics" | |
| 2005 | Donal Bradley[6] | United Kingdom
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"Nano-Engineering" | |
| 2006 | Rainer Bauböck |  Austria
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"immigration and social cohesion in modern societies" | "for his in-depth research on migration issues"[7] |
| 2007 | Willi Kalender | Germany
|
"Medical Imaging" | "for his outstanding contributions in the field of medical imaging"[8] |
| 2008 | Simon White | United Kingdom
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"Astrophysics" | "for his outstanding contribution to the field of astrophysics"[9] |
| 2009 | Uta Frith | United Kingdom/ Germany
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| 2010 | Ilkka Hanski |  Finland
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"Biodiversity" | "for his contributions to research concerning biodiversity in general and metapopulation biology in particular"[11] |
| 2011 | James Vaupel | Germany
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"Demography" | "for his contributions to research on ageing and lifespan, and his profound influence on demographic research" |
| 2012 | Uffe Haagerup |  Denmark
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“Mathematics” | "for ground-breaking and important contributions to the theory of operator algebras"[12] |
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ "German researcher wins first European Latsis Prize". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2000". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "ESF - Press Area". Archived from the original on 2004-02-29. Retrieved 2004-03-29.
- ^ http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0§ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=72[permanent dead link]
- ^ "ESF - Press Area". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2005-01-09.
- ^ http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?section=6&language=0&newsrelease=97[permanent dead link]
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2006". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2007". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2010". European Science Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "EXT: Single-News : European Science Foundation". Esf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2010". European Science Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
- ^ "European Latsis Prize winner 2012". European Commission: CORDIS. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
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