The Kavli Prize has been awarded every two years since 2008 and is donated by Fred Kavli (1927–2013).
The award is endowed with one million US dollars each in three research areas ( astrophysics , nanosciences and neurosciences ). If there are several winners in one category, the prize money will be shared. The prize money is provided by The Kavli Foundation , founded by the Norwegian native Fred Kavli. Emigrated to California , USA at a young age , he made his fortune with an aircraft sensor company ( Kavlico ).
The members of the award committee are named by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and, in addition to their own proposals, consider those from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Académie des Sciences , the Max Planck Society , the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society . The Norwegian King Harald will present the award during a ceremony.
Award winners
year
astrophysics
Nanosciences
Neuroscience
2008
Maarten Schmidt , Donald Lynden-Bell
Louis E. Brus , Sumio Iijima
Pasko Rakic , Thomas Jessell , Sten Grillner
2010
Jerry Nelson , Raymond Wilson , Roger Angel
Donald M. Eigler , Nadrian Seeman
Thomas Südhof , Richard H. Scheller , James Rothman
2012
David C. Jewitt , Jane X. Luu , Michael E. Brown
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann , Winfried Denk , Ann M. Graybiel
2014
Alan H. Guth , Andrei D. Linde , Alexei A. Starobinsky
Thomas W. Ebbesen , Stefan W. Hell , John Pendry
Brenda Milner , John O'Keefe , Marcus E. Raichle
2016
Ronald WP Drever , Kip S. Thorne , Rainer Weiss
Gerd Binnig , Christoph Gerber , Calvin Quate
Eve Marder , Michael M. Merzenich , Carla J. Shatz
2018
Ewine van Dishoeck
Emmanuelle Charpentier , Jennifer Doudna , Virginijus Šikšnys
A. James Hudspeth , Robert Fettiplace , Christine Petit
2020
Andrew Fabian
Harald Rose , Maximilian Haider , Knut Urban , Ondrej Krivanek
David Julius , Ardem Patapoutian
Web links
Individual evidence
↑ Competition for the Nobel Prize , Die Welt, September 7, 2010
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