- The Humboldt Prize
The Humboldt Prize, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to internationally renownedscientist s and is currently valued at € 60.000 with the possibility of further support during the prize winner's life. [ [http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/neurofocus-chief-science-advisor-wins-humboldt-prie/ NeuroFocus Chief Science Advisor Wins Humboldt Prize.]Fox Business .May 9 ,2008 . AccessedMay 19 ,2008 ] [ [http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/preise/pt.htm Humboldt Research Award.]Humboldt Foundation . AccessedMay 19 ,2008 ] Nominations must be submitted by established academics in Germany.The prize is named after the late
Prussia n naturalist andexplorer Alexander von Humboldt .One of its most renowned winners is the Greek-German philosopher and historian of ideasPanagiotis Kondylis , author of "Die Aufklärung", "Macht und Entscheidung" and several other influential studies.Past Winners in Mathematics include:
Dmitri Anosov ,Spencer J. Bloch ,Victor Guillemin ,Robert Langlands ,Benoît Mandelbrot ,Grigory Margulis ,John Milnor ,Elias M. Stein ,Anatoly Vershik ,Arnold Mandell ,Ernest Borisovich Vinberg ,Shing-Tung Yau andMarc Yor .Past Winners in Physics include:
Roy J. Glauber ,Theodor W. Hänsch ,John L. Hall ,Masatoshi Koshiba ,Herbert Kroemer ,Steven Chu ,Valery Pokrovsky ,Clifford G. Shull ,Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ,Hans Dehmelt ,Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ,Nicolaas Bloembergen ,Alfred Saupe ,Arthur L. Schawlow ,Holger Bech Nielsen Julian Schwinger andRobert Hofstadter .Past Winners in Chemistry include:
Robert H. Grubbs ,Richard R. Schrock ,John Bennett Fenn ,Ahmed H. Zewail ,John Anthony Pople ,Robert F. Curl ,Paul Josef Crutzen ,Rudolph Marcus ,Jean-Marie Lehn ,Narayan Hosmane andWalter Gilbert .External links
* [http://www.avh.de/en/ Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]
* [http://www.au.dk/da/nyheder/presse/250202.htm/ University of Aarhus]References
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