Six new Heineken Prize laureates
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
Amsterdam, 14 April 2010
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) will today announce
the names of the recipients of the 2010 Heineken Prizes. The Heineken Prizes are
presented to five internationally acclaimed scientists and scholars (USD 150,000
each), and one highly talented Dutch artist (EUR 50,000). The prizes are funded
by the Dr H.P. Heineken Foundation and the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.
The Academy selects the laureates in science and scholarship, and the art prize
is awarded by an independent jury. The laureates receive the Heineken Prizes for
their great merits to science, Dutch art and society.
The Heineken Prize laureates for 2010 are:
Franz-Ulrich Hartl, managing director of the Max Planck Institute for
Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany. He is receiving the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize
for Biochemistry and Biophysics for his contribution to the discovery of the
role of "chaperones" in protein folding.
Ralph Steinman, professor at The Rockefeller University in New York. He is
receiving the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine for his discovery of the role
of dendritic cells in the immune system.
David Tilman, professor at the University of Minnesota, United States. He is
receiving the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences for the way in
which he combines mathematical theories, laboratory research and field
experiments to make a fundamental contribution to the science of ecology.
Rosamond McKitterick, professor at Cambridge University, United Kingdom. She is
receiving the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History because her research has
fundamentally changed how we view the Carolingians and the interplay of
politics, religion and scholarship in their time.
Michael Tomasello, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is receiving the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for
Cognitive Science because his multidisciplinary research has given us a much
deeper understanding of cognitive processes in primates in general, and language
acquisition processes in humans in particular.
Mark Manders, artist working in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and Ronse, Belgium. He
is receiving the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art for his consistent use of
imagery in creating an intriguing world of his own, one that leaves ample scope
for free association and plants itself deep in the memory.
Presentation
The six 2010 Heineken Prizes will be presented on Thursday 23 September 2010
during an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences at the Beurs van Berlage Building in Amsterdam.
More information
KNAW, Het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam.
P.O. Box 19121, 1000 GC Amsterdam.
Communications Department tel +31 (0)20-5510733, fax +31 (0)20-6204941.
communicatie(at)bureau.knaw.nl
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