Kavli Prize

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The Kavli Prize
Kavli Astrophysics 2014.jpg
Awarded foroutstanding contributions in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience.
Country Norway
Presented by
Reward(s)A gold medal, a scroll, and a monetary award of US$ 1,000,000
First awarded2008
Number of laureates21 prizes to 54 laureates (as of 2021)
Website http://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]

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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

YearLaureateInstitutionCountryCitation
2008 Maarten Schmidt 1978 (cropped).png Maarten Schmidt California Institute of Technology Flag of the Netherlands.svg "for their seminal contributions to understanding the nature of quasars"
Donald Lynden-Bell.jpg Donald Lynden-Bell Cambridge University Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
2010 Jerry E. Nelson Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz Flag of the United States.svg "for their contributions to the development of giant telescopes"
Raymond N. Wilson European Southern Observatory, Garching Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
James Roger Angel Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Flag of the United States.svg
2012 David Jewitt.jpg David C. Jewitt University of California Los Angeles Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the United States.svg "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"
JaneLu@Stellafanesml 8416.jpg Jane X. Luu Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of Vietnam.svg Flag of the United States.svg
Michael E Brown 1.jpg Michael E. Brown California Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg
2014 AlanGuthCambridge.jpg Alan H. Guth Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation"
Andrei Linde.jpg Andrei D. Linde Stanford University Flag of Russia.svg Flag of the United States.svg
Alexei Starobinsky (Zeldovich-100).jpg Alexei A. Starobinsky Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics Flag of Russia.svg
2016 Ronald Drever Glasgow 2007.jpg Ronald W.P. Drever California Institute of Technology Flag of the United Kingdom.svg "for the direct detection of gravitational waves" [3]
Kip Thorne at Caltech.jpg Kip S. Thorne California Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg
Rainer Weiss - December 2006.jpg Rainer Weiss Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of Germany.svg Flag of the United States.svg
2018 EwineVanDishoeck.jpg Ewine van Dishoeck Leiden University Flag of the Netherlands.svg "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, recipient of the 2020 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (iau2005a).jpg Andrew Fabian University of Cambridge Flag of the United Kingdom.svg "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 (iau2205a) (cropped).jpg Roger Ulrich University of California, Los Angeles Flag of the United States.svg "for their pioneering work and leadership in the development of helio- and asteroseismology"
Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Rasmus Roerbaek.jpg Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus University Flag of Denmark.svg
Conny Aerts (iau2205a) (cropped).jpg Conny Aerts KU Leuven Flag of Belgium (civil).svg
2024 Sara Seager CHF-Cain-Conference-May-2016-055.jpg Sara Seager Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg "for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres"
Charbonneau 180x240.jpg David Charbonneau Harvard University Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Flag of the United States.svg

Nanoscience

YearLaureateInstitutionCountryCitation
2008 Louis E Brus.jpg Louis E. Brus Columbia University Flag of the United States.svg "for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry and biology"
Iijima.jpg Sumio Iijima Meijo University Flag of Japan.svg
2010 Don Eigler Neon Argon.jpg Donald Eigler IBM Almaden Research Center Flag of the United States.svg "for their development of unprecedented methods to control matter on the nanoscale"
Nadrian Seeman.jpg Nadrian C. Seeman New York University Flag of the United States.svg
2012 Barack Obama greets Burton Richter and Mildred Dresselhaus (cropped).jpg Mildred S. Dresselhaus Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg "for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures"
2014 Thomas Ebbesen 2014.jpg Thomas W. Ebbesen University of Strasbourg Flag of Norway.svg Flag of France.svg "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.jpg Stefan W. Hell Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Flag of Germany.svg
John Pendry 2014c.jpg John B. Pendry Imperial College London Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
2016 Gerd Binnig at the Memorial Symposium for Heinrich Rohrer (cropped).jpg Gerd Binnig IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Flag of Germany.svg "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 2013.jpg Christoph Gerber University of Basel Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg
Calvin Quate Stanford University Flag of the United States.svg
2018 Emmanuelle Charpentier.jpg Emmanuelle Charpentier Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Flag of France.svg Flag of Germany.svg "for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine" [8] [5]
Professor Jennifer Doudna ForMemRS.jpg Jennifer Doudna University of California, Berkeley Flag of the United States.svg
VSiksnys.jpg Virginijus Šikšnys Vilnius University Flag of Lithuania.svg
2020 Harald Rose Dresden 2009-2.jpg Harald Rose Universität Ulm Flag of Germany.svg "for sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams" [9]
Maximilian Haider CEOS GmbH Flag of Austria.svg
Knut Urban Forschungszentrum Jülich Flag of Germany.svg
Ondrej L Krivanek outside London 2020.png Ondrej Krivanek Nion Co Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the Czech Republic.svg
2022 Jacob Sagiv (2022) (52334689647).jpg Jacob Sagiv Weizmann Institute of Science Flag of Israel.svg "for Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on solid substrates; molecular coatings to control surface properties"
Ralph Nuzzo on stage (2022) (52335940954).jpg Ralph Nuzzo University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Flag of the United States.svg
David Allara Pennsylvania State University Flag of the United States.svg
George Whitesides HD2010 podium crop.jpg George M. Whitesides Harvard University Flag of the United States.svg
2024 Robert Langer BioTech Awards Video speaking.png Robert S. Langer Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg "for pioneering work integrating synthetic nanoscale materials with biological function for biomedical applications"
Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago President September 2021.png Armand Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago Flag of the United States.svg
Chad Mirkin CHF-Heritage-Day-AIC-2016-004 medal.jpg Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University Flag of the United States.svg

Neuroscience

YearLaureateInstitutionCountryCitation
2008 Incontro Human brain project - 13 marzo 2018 (40895479282).jpg Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute Flag of Sweden.svg "for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits"
Thomas Jessell Columbia University Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the United States.svg
Professor Pasko Rakic ForMemRS.jpg Pasko Rakic Yale University School of Medicine Flag of Serbia.svg Flag of the United States.svg
2010 Richard Scheller, 1980.jpg Richard H. Scheller Genentech Flag of the United States.svg "for discovering the molecular basis of neurotransmitter release"
Thomas c sudhof.jpg Thomas C. Südhof Stanford University School of Medicine Flag of Germany.svg
James Edward Rothman.jpg James E. Rothman Yale University Flag of the United States.svg
2012 Cori Bargmann at 10th International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics.jpg Cornelia Isabella Bargmann Rockefeller University Flag of the United States.svg "for elucidating basic neuronal mechanisms underlying perception and decision"
Winfried Denk Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Flag of Germany.svg
Ann Graybiel 2001.jpg Ann M. Graybiel Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg
2014 Brenda Milner.jpg Brenda Milner Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg "for the discovery of specialized brain networks for memory and cognition"
John O'Keefe (neuroscientist) 2014.jpg John O’Keefe University College London Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
M.Raichle w PET3.jpg Marcus E. Raichle Washington University in St. Louis Flag of the United States.svg
2016 Eve Marder.jpg Eve Marder Brandeis University Flag of the United States.svg "for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function" [10]
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco Flag of the United States.svg
Carla shatz.jpg Carla J. Shatz Stanford University Flag of the United States.svg
2018 KavliPrize-7273 (42704615130).jpg A. James Hudspeth Rockefeller University Flag of the United States.svg "for their scientific discoveries of the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing" [11] [5]
KavliPrize-7111 (44513568411).jpg Robert Fettiplace University of Wisconsin–Madison Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the United States.svg
KavliPrize-7148 (43603979215).jpg Christine Petit Collège de France Flag of France.svg
2020 Davidjuliuswithsnake.jpg David Julius University of California, San Francisco Flag of the United States.svg "for their transformative discovery of receptors for temperature and pressure". [12]
Ardem Patapoutian by C Michel 67.jpg Ardem Patapoutian Scripps Research and Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Flag of Lebanon.svg Flag of the United States.svg
2022 Jean-Louis Mandel par Claude Truong-Ngoc mai 2013.jpg Jean-Louis Mandel University of Strasbourg Flag of France.svg "for pioneering the discovery of genes underlying a range of brain disorders"
Harry T. Orr University of Minnesota Medical School Flag of the United States.svg
Huda Zoghbi.jpg Huda Zoghbi Baylor College of Medicine Flag of Lebanon.svg Flag of the United States.svg
Christopher A. Walsh (2022).jpg Christopher A. Walsh Harvard Medical School Flag of the United States.svg
2024 Introduction to the Simons Center, Nancy Kanwisher, 2m33s.jpg Nancy Kanwisher Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flag of the United States.svg "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 Flag of Germany.svg Flag of the United States.svg
Doris Tsao.jpg Doris Ying Tsao University of California, Berkeley Flag of the United States.svg

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