BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are a group of awards from the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) Foundation . The prizes have been awarded since 2008 and (as of 2019) are endowed with 400,000 euros each .

Awards are given in the following eight categories:

• Basic Research (Basic Sciences)
• Biology and biomedicine (Biology and Biomedicine)
• Climate change (Climate Change)
• Ecology and Conservation Biology (Ecology and Conservation Biology)
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Economy, Finance and Management (Economics, Finance and Management)
• Music and Opera (Music and Opera)
• Development cooperation (Development Cooperation)

Award winners

No.	year	Basic research	Biology and biomedicine	Climate change	Ecology and conservation biology	Computer science and communication technology	Economy, finance and management	Music and opera	Development cooperation
01.	2008	Peter Zoller , Ignacio Cirac	Joan Massagué	Wallace S. Broecker	William F. Laurance , Thomas E. Lovejoy	Jacob Ziv	Jean Tirole	Steven Holl	Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
02.	2009	Michael E. Fisher , Richard N. Zare	Robert J. Lefkowitz	Klaus Hasselmann	Peter B. Reich	Thomas Kailath	Hugo F. Sonnenschein , Andreu Mas-Colell	Cristóbal Halffter	Development Research Institute
03.	2010	Gabor A. Somorjai	Shin'ya Yamanaka	Nicholas Stern	Edward O. Wilson	Donald E. Knuth	Lars Peter Hansen	Helmut Lachenmann	International Rice Research Institute
04th	2011	Didier Queloz , Michel GE Mayor	Alexander Varshavsky	Isaac hero	Daniel H. Janzen	Carver A. Mead	Angus Deaton	Salvatore Sciarrino	Ciro de Quadros
05.	2012	David Mumford , Ingrid Daubechies	Jeffrey M. Friedman , Douglas L. Coleman	Susan Solomon	Jane Lubchenco	Lotfi A. Zadeh	Paul R. Milgrom	Pierre Boulez	Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
06th	2013	Knut Urban , Harald Rose , Maximilian Haider	Adrian Bird	Christopher B. Field	Paul R. Ehrlich	Marvin L. Minsky	Elhanan Helpman	Steve Reich	Pratham
07th	2014	Stephen Buchwald	Joseph Schlessinger , Charles L. Sawyers , Tony Hunter	Richard Alley	David Tilman	Leonard Kleinrock	Richard Blundell , David Card	György Kurtág	Helen Keller International
08th.	2015	Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Stephen Hawking	Gero Miesenböck , Karl Deisseroth , Edward Boyden	Veerabhadran Ramanathan	Ilkka Hanski	Stephen Arthur Cook	Robert B. Wilson	Georges Aperghis	Martin Ravaillon
09.	2016	Bradley Efron , David A. Cox	Francisco Martínez Mojica , Jennifer Doudna , Emmanuelle Charpentier	James E. Hansen , Syukuro Manabe	Marten Scheffer , Gene E. Likens	Geoffrey Hinton	Daron Acemoglu	Sofia Gubaidulina	Peter J. Myler , Pedro L. Alonso
10.	2017	Omar Yaghi	James P. Allison	William North House	Peter Raymond Grant , Rosemary Grant	Adi Shamir , Ronald Rivest , Silvio Micali , Shafi Goldwasser	Robert H. Porter , Ariel Pakes , Timothy Bresnahan	Kaija Saariaho	Nubia Muñoz
11.	2018	Eugene Mele , Charles Kane	Jeffrey I. Gordon	John Alexander Church , Anny Cazenave , Jonathan Gregory	Gretchen Daily , Georgina Mace	Ivan Sutherland	Claudia Goldin	John Adams	Noam Chomsky
12.	2019	Charles H. Bennett , Gilles Brassard , Peter Shor	Michael N. Hall , David M. Sabatini	Kerry Emanuel	Carlos M. Duarte , Terence Hughes , Daniel Pauly	Isabelle Guyon , Bernhard Schölkopf , Vladimir Vapnik	Philippe Aghion , Peter W. Howitt	Arvo Pärt	Susan Fiske , Shelley Taylor
No.	year	Basic research	Biology and biomedicine	Climate change	Ecology and conservation biology	Computer science and communication technology	Economy, finance and management	Music and opera	Development cooperation

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Only in 2008, the contract was awarded in the category "Art" (Arts) .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} In 2018 and 2019 the award took place in the category " Humanities and Social Sociences" .

Web links

• Frontiers of Knowledge Awards