Descartes Prize

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The Descartes Prize was a European science prize awarded from 2000 to 2007.

With the award named after René Descartes , the European Commission honored the most successful transnational research project in Europe every year. The prize was endowed with 1 million euros. The prize money was divided - not necessarily in equal parts - among the winners.

Award winners

2000

  • Ian Smith , Birmingham University, and Bertrand Rowe , Université de Rennes, with their team (A. Canossa, I. Simms, D. Chastaing) for chemistry close to absolute zero
  • Alan Lehman , University of Sussex, and his team (M. Stefanini, JH Hoeijmakers, J.-M. Egly) for work on the XPD gene
  • Dago de Leeuw , Philips, and his team (B. Huisman, P. Herwig, R. Janssen, B. Langveld-Voss, A. Spiering, D. Bäuerle, E. Mena-Osteritz, G. Götz, P. Brown, H. Sirringhaus, MM Nielsen, K. Bechgaard) for the development of plastic transistors

2001

  • Jan Balzarini and Eric de Clercq , Rega Institute for Medical Research Leuven, and colleagues for the development of new drugs against HIV
  • Michael North , King's College in London and his team (Belokon, Rozenberg, Saghiyan, Kagan, Brown, Borner) for the development of new asymmetric catalysts in chemistry

2002

2003

2004

2005

Research award

  • EXCEL (DALHM) team for a new class of artificial metamaterials , so-called left-handed materials (LHM) or materials with a negative refractive index
  • CECA team for knowledge on climate and environmental change in the Arctic
  • PULSE team for the influence of European pulsar science on modern physics
  • ESS project ( European Social Study ) for innovations in transnational surveys
  • EURO-PID project for research work on a group of more than 130 rare, genetic diseases , the so-called primary immunodeficiencies

Prize for science communication

  • Carl Johan Sundberg from Sweden, for his lifelong enthusiasm for explaining in a clear, understandable way
  • Anja C. Andersen, young astrophysicist from the Dark Cosmology Center at Copenhagen University, for her extraordinary ability to present the complexities of science to a wide audience
  • Jos Van Hemelrijck of VRT Television in Belgium for the production of “Overleven”, an innovative science TV series that tracks the work and personalities of scientists as they solve key scientific puzzles
  • the author, Bill Bryson, for his highly inspiring, innovative, and entertaining book, A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Michael Seifert from the University of Tübingen, for the children's university, a program (lecture series) at this university

2006

2007

  • VIRLIS project for the fight against listeriosis infections, project partners: Pascale Cossart , Institut Pasteur, France (coordinator); Jürgen Wehland , Helmholtz Center for Infection Research GmbH, Germany; Trinad Chakraborty, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany; Werner Goebel , Jürgen Kreft and Michael Kuhn, Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany; Fernando Baquero, Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Spain; José Antonio Vazquez-Boland, Universidad de León, Spain; Francisco García del Portillo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
  • SYNNANOMOTORS project for the development of synthetic nano-motors, project partner: David A. Leigh , University of Edinburgh, Great Britain (coordinator); François Kajzar, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France; Fabio Biscarini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy; Francesco Zerbetto, Università di Bologna, Italy; Wybren Jan Buma, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands; Petra Rudolf, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
  • EPICA project for the reconstruction of climate history on the basis of ice cores obtained from deep drilling in the Antarctic, project partner: Hubertus Fischer, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany (coordinator); Jean-Louis Tison, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; Thomas Stocker , University of Bern, Switzerland; Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Valérie Masson-Delmotte, CNRS / CEA, France; Gérard Jugie, Institut Polaire Paul Emile Victor, France; Massimo Frezzotti, duck per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente, Italy; Valter Maggi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy; Michiel van den Broeke , Utrecht University, Netherlands; Elisabeth Isaksson, Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway; Margareta Hansson, Stockholm University, Sweden; Eric Wolff, Natural Environment Research Council, UK

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supporting documents

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