European Latsis Prize

The European Latsis Prize is awarded annually by the European Science Foundation for "outstanding and innovative contributions in a selected field of European research". The prize is worth 100,000 Swiss francs and is awarded within a different discipline each year. The prize was inaugurated in 1999 by the Latsis Foundation and ended in 2012. The prize was awarded in a different scientific field.

Laureates

Year	Awardee	Country	Chosen Field	Rationale
1999	Jürgen Baumert	Germany	"Research and/or Innovation in Education"[1]
2000	Kenneth Holmes	Germany  United Kingdom	"Molecular Structure"[2]
2001	André Berger[3]	Belgium	"Climate Research"
2002	Annette Karmiloff-Smith	United Kingdom	"Cognitive Sciences"
2003	Colin Renfrew[4]	United Kingdom	"Archaeology"
2004	Amos Bairoch[5]	Switzerland	"Bioinformatics"
2005	Donal Bradley[6]	United Kingdom	"Nano-Engineering"
2006	Rainer Bauböck	Austria	"immigration and social cohesion in modern societies"	"for his in-depth research on migration issues"[7]
2007	Willi Kalender	Germany	"Medical Imaging"	"for his outstanding contributions in the field of medical imaging"[8]
2008	Simon White	United Kingdom	"Astrophysics"	"for his outstanding contribution to the field of astrophysics"[9]
2009	Uta Frith	United Kingdom/ Germany
	Chris Frith[10]
2010	Ilkka Hanski	Finland	"Biodiversity"	"for his contributions to research concerning biodiversity in general and metapopulation biology in particular"[11]
2011	James Vaupel	Germany	"Demography"	"for his contributions to research on ageing and lifespan, and his profound influence on demographic research"
2012	Uffe Haagerup	Denmark	“Mathematics”	"for ground-breaking and important contributions to the theory of operator algebras"[12]

See also

• Swiss Science Prize Latsis

Notes and references

1. "German researcher wins first European Latsis Prize". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
2. "European Latsis Prize winner 2000". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
3. "ESF - Press Area". Archived from the original on 2004-02-29. Retrieved 2004-03-29.
4. http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?language=0§ion=6&year=2003&newsrelease=72^{[permanent dead link‍]}
5. "ESF - Press Area". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2005-01-09.
6. http://www.esf.org/esf_pressarea_page.php?section=6&language=0&newsrelease=97^{[permanent dead link‍]}
7. "European Latsis Prize winner 2006". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
8. "European Latsis Prize winner 2007". European Commission: CORDIS. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
9. "European Latsis Prize winner 2010". European Science Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
10. "EXT: Single-News : European Science Foundation". Esf.org. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
11. "European Latsis Prize winner 2010". European Science Foundation. Retrieved 2017-01-29.
12. "European Latsis Prize winner 2012". European Commission: CORDIS. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-29.

External links

• European Science Foundation