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The Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science is awarded every two years by UNESCO and rewards individuals and groups in the field of ethics in science.
The aim of the award is to promote ethical reflection on issues raised by advances in science and technology, and to raise global awareness of the importance of ethics in science. The prize was named after the 11th century Persian physician and philosopher Avicenna (980-1038).
The Prize consists of a gold medal, a certificate, US$10,000, and a one-week academic visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Since it was founded, the award has been given to five individuals.
== Award recipients ==
2004 Margaret Somerville, Canada
2005 Abdallah Daar, Canada
2009 Renzong Qiu, China
2015 Zabta Khan Shinwari, Pakistan
2019 Donald A. Brown, US
== References ==
== External links ==
Official site

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The Award of Merit is bestowed by the Association for Information Science and Technology. It is an annual prize to an individual for a lifetime of achievement that recognizes sustained contributions to and/or achievements in the field of information science and/or the professions in which it is practiced. The Award of Merit was first given in 1964 to Hans Peter Luhn.
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Az-Zubair Prize for Innovation and Scientific Excellence (Arabic: جائزة الزبير للإبداع والتميز العلمي) is an annual Sudanese scientific prize awarded by the President of Sudan for scientific innovation and creativity in applied and technological fields.
== History ==
On November 7, 1998, President Omer Al-Bashir passed a bill to establish an annual scientific award for innovation and scientific excellence that commemorate General Az-Zubair Mohammed Salih, former Sudan's vice president who died in an aeroplane crash. The award is governed by the Association for the Promotion of Scientific Innovation (APSI), a specialized organization that was established by General Az-Zubair for sponsoring technological advances and scientific research.
== Prize types ==
The prize is divided onto two major levels:
Special Honorary Prize - awarded for individuals who had great distinctive works and great scientific position that majorly contributed to the society.
Competitors level is divided onto three sub-categories:
Scientific level - open to higher certificate holders and researchers
Youth level - open to students and graduates of universities and higher institutions
Talented level - open to anyone that presents valuable and empirical invention or creative work that reflects talent and excellence and has a great value for the society
== Prize fields ==
The general fields of the Az-Zubair Prize are:
Islamic Studies
Medical and Health Sciences
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Computer Science and Information Technology
Agriculture
Veterinary and Animal production.
Economics and Administrative Sciences
Natural Sciences
Liberal Arts
Behavioural sciences
== Award ==
The prize award is composed of:
A medallion of science, awarded by the President of Sudan
Scientific patent bearing the name of the winner and abstract for winning
Monetary award of SDD20 million Sudanese dinar (equivalent to $90,000) distributed among the winners
=== Recipients ===
2000 Awn Alsharif Qasim
2000 Ahmed Hassan Fahal
2003 El Hadi Ahmed El Sheikh
== External links ==
APSI Official website (Arabic Portal)

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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (Spanish: Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento) are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards respond to the knowledge map of the present age. As well as the fundamental knowledge that is at their core, they address developments in information and communication technologies, and interactions between biology and medicine, ecology and conservation biology, climate change, economics, humanities and social sciences, and, finally, contemporary musical creation and performance. Specific categories are reserved for developing knowledge fields of critical relevance to confront central challenges of the 21st century, as in the case of the two environmental awards.
The awards were established in 2008, with the first set of winners receiving their prizes in 2009. The BBVA Foundation — belonging to financial group Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria — is partnered in the scheme by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country's premier public research organization.
== Details ==
There are eight award categories:
Basic Science
Biology and Biomedicine
Climate Change
Ecology and Conservation Biology
Information and Communications Technologies
Economics, Finance and Management
Music and Opera
Humanities and Social Sciences
Previously, in the first 10 editions, there was a category in development cooperation.
Eight juries, one for each category, analyze the nominations put forward by international academic and research institutions. To reach their decision, the juries meet during January and February in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation. The day after the jury's decision, the name of the winners(s) and the achievements that earned them the award are revealed at an announcement event in the same location.
The awards are presented in June each year at a ceremony held, from the 11th edition, in the Euskalduna Palace at Bilbao, in the Basque Country.
== BBVA Foundation ==
The BBVA Foundation engages in the promotion of research, advanced training and the transmission of knowledge to society, focusing on the emerging issues of the 21st century in five areas: Environment, Biomedicine and Health, Economy and Society, Basic Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Humanities. The BBVA Foundation designs, develops and finances research projects in these areas; facilitates advanced specialist training through grants, courses, seminars and workshops; organizes award schemes for researchers and professionals whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge; and communicates and disseminates such new knowledge through publications, databases, lecture series, debates, exhibitions and audiovisual and electronic media.
== Prizes ==
Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative artwork, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per category. Awards may not be granted posthumously, and when an award is shared, its monetary amount is divided equally among the recipients.
The commemorative artwork is created by Madrid sculptor Blanca Muñoz, B.A. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Holder of scholarships at Calcografia Nazionale (1989), awarded by the Italian Government, at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (1990), and in Mexico City (1992), awarded by the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs, her numerous distinctions include the 1999 National Print Prize.
As of 2023, 22 BBVA Foundation laureates have also won the Nobel Prize.
=== Laureates ===
=== Laureates per country ===
Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to included 2025 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if they have multiple citizenships.
== Notes ==
== References ==
== External links ==
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The Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science is an award given annually by the Baltic Assembly for achievements in three categories: literature, art and science.
The prize is an annual award given to a citizen of Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania "for outstanding achievements" in three categories: literature, art and science. It was awarded for the first time in 1994 and consists of a statuette, a diploma and a sum of money, presently (2016) 5,000 euro. It is awarded during the formal session of the assembly. A joint jury consisting of three persons per prize make the decision on whom to award the prize. The purpose of the award is according to the Baltic Assembly to "demonstrate the common interests of the countries in this region in upholding of their national identity and self-esteem; create an opportunity to learn about the achievements of the neighbouring countries; maintain a continuous interest among the people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania about developments in the Baltic States; strengthen cooperation among the Baltic States in the fields of literature, the arts and science; encourage more and more people to become interested in the intellectual values and languages of the Baltic nations; and raise the level of literature, the arts and science in the Baltic States."
== List of recipients of the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature ==
The following list is based on the official webpage of the Baltic Assembly.
== List of recipients of the Baltic Assembly Prize for the Arts ==
The following list is based on the official webpage of the Baltic Assembly.
== List of recipients of the Baltic Assembly Prize for Science ==
The following list is based on the official webpage of the Baltic Assembly.
== See also ==
List of European art awards
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The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the brotherhood of man.
== History ==
The assets behind the foundation were established by the Italian Eugenio Balzan (it) (18741953), a part-owner of Corriere della Sera who had invested his assets in Switzerland and in 1933 had left Italy in protest against fascism. He left a substantial inheritance to his daughter Angela Lina Balzan (18921956), who at the time was suffering an incurable disease. Before her death, she left instructions for the foundation and since then it has two headquarters, the Prize administered from Milan, the Fund from Zurich.
The first award was in fact one million Swiss francs to the Nobel Foundation in 1961. After 1962, a gap of 16 years followed when prizes recommenced with an award of half a million Swiss francs to Mother Teresa. Award ceremonies alternate between Bern and the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, and frequently winners have later won a Nobel Prize.
== Procedure ==
All awards are decided by a single committee. The Balzan Prize committee comprises twenty members of the prestigious learned societies of Europe.
Each year the foundation chooses the fields eligible for the next year's prizes, and determines the prize amount. These are generally announced in May, with the winners announced the September the following year.
== Rewards and assets ==
Since 2001 the prize money has increased to 1 million Swiss Francs per prize, on condition that half the money is used for projects involving young researchers.
As of 2017, the amount of each of the four Balzan Prizes is now 750,000 Swiss francs (approx. €760,000; $750,000; £660,000).
== Categories ==
Four prizes have been awarded annually since 1978. The award fields vary each year and can be related to either a specific or an interdisciplinary field. The prizes go beyond the traditional subjects both in the humanities (literature, the moral sciences and the arts) and in the sciences (medicine and the physical, mathematical and natural sciences), with an emphasis on innovative research.
In different fields the prize is considered a significant prize, for example in sociology.
Every 3 to 7 years the foundation also awards the Prize for humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples. It was last awarded in 2014 to Vivre en Famille.
== Recipients ==
See: List of Balzan Prize recipients
== See also ==
List of general science and technology awards
List of astronomy awards
== References ==
== External links ==
Official website
The Balzan Foundation List of Balzan prizewinners
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The Beckman Young Investigators Award was established by Mabel and Arnold Beckman in 1991, and is now administered by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers. Awardees receive grants of roughly $600,000 over four years, "contingent on demonstrated progress after the second year". The intent is to foster "innovative departures" and the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in the chemical and life sciences.
It has been awarded to the following scientists:
== 2021 ==
Beau Alward
Roxanne Beltran
Margaret Byron
Katherine Davis
Robert Gilliard
Tania Lupoli
Brett McGuire
Nicolas Pégard
Alison Wendlandt
Balyn Zaro
Yingjie Zhang
== 2020 ==
John Blazeck
Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb
Laura Duvall
Andrea Giovannucci
Stavroula Hatzios
Sarah King
James McKone
Yue Wang
== 2019 ==
Keriann Backus
Chenfeng Ke
Wesley Legant
Frank Leibfarth
Jarad Mason
Jia Niu
Kimberly See
Leslie Schoop
Kirk Wangensteen
Brad Zuchero
== 2018 ==
Dmitriy Aronov
Alistair Boettiger
Henry La Pierre
Chen Li
Jean-Hubert Olivier
Ian Seiple
Michaela TerAvest
Ashleigh Theberge
Weiwei Xie
Xiaoji Xu
== 2017 ==
Victor Acosta
Jeremy Baskin
Pamela Chang
Dan Fu
Erik Grumstrup
A. Fatih Sarioglu
Jose Rodriguez
Bo Wang
== 2016 ==
Yiyang Gong
Markita Landry
Zachary Pincus
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
Sabrina Spencer
Scott Warren
Jing-Ke Weng
Ke Xu
== 2015 ==
Lawrence David
David Flannigan
Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy
Chang Liu
Patrick Mercier
Peter Nemes
Kang-Kuen Ni
Alex Shalek
== 2014 ==
Albert Bowers
Ludovico Cademartiri
Prashant Jain
Reade Roberts
Wesley Wong
Yimon Aye
Yuebing Zheng
== 2013 ==
Aaron Hoskins
Christina Stallings
Delphine Farmer
Elena Gracheva
Gordana Dukovic
Hillel Adesnik
Poul Petersen
== 2012 ==
Catherine A. Blish
Farren J. Isaacs
Frank Alber
Louis Bouchard
William Dichtel
== 2011 ==
== 2010 ==
== 2009 ==
Anne McNeil
Daniel Zilberman
David Masopust
Herschel Wade
Jon Lai
Marc Hammarlund
Nicholas Putnam
Ruth Ley
Scott Phillips
Soichiro Yamada
Valeria Molinero
== 2008 ==
Alla Grishok
Andreas S. Tolias
Clodagh O'Shea
E. Charles H. Sykes
Faik Akif Tezcan
Ke Hu
Martin D. Burke
Michael J. Axtell
Michelle Chang
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Stephen Rogers
Steven Little
Tehshik Yoon
Todd M. Squires
Vassiliy Lubchenko
Zefeng Wang
== 2007 ==
Adrian Salic
Alexander Deiters
Amy J. Wagers
Brent Stockwell
Christopher W. Bielawski
Eric S. Huseby
Garegin Papoian
Jay A. Gupta
Joshua J. Coon
Min Ouyang
Rachel L. Wilson
Sean Crosson
Sean F. Brady
Shu-Ou Shan
Siavash K. Kurdistani
Zemer Gitai
== 2006 ==
Abraham Stroock
Andrey S. Krasilnikov
Anton Nekrutenko
Arthur Salomon
David A. Gracias
David Traver
Geeta Narlikar
Hopi Hoekstra
Jeanne Hardy
Jeffrey W. Bode
Jingdong Tian
Krystyn J. Van Vliet
Laura Kaufman
Lei Wang
Manuel Llinas
Marc Johnson
Michael Bulger
Michael S. Strano
Mohammad Movassaghi
Phil S. Baran
Raymond Schaak
Sanjay Kumar
Srinivasan S. Iyengar
Susan Janicki
Xi Chen
== 2005 ==
Audrey P. Gasch
Carsten Krebs
Christian Munz
Christina D. Smolke
Christopher Chang
Chuan He
Glenn Micalizio
Hyongsok Soh
Jeffrey J. Gray
Jing Wang
Josh Dubnau
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Judith X. Becerra
Justin P. Gallivan
Matthew P. DeLisa
Peng Jin
Philip LeDuc
Randy Bartels
Rebekah Drezek
Sarah O'Connor
Stuart Licht
Theresa M. Reineke
Volney Sheen
Yueh-Lin Loo
== 2004 ==
Akhilesh Pandey
Brenda S. Schulman
Brian Kuhlman
Christine D. Keating
D. Tyler McQuade
David M. Rector
Garth Simpson
Gavin MacBeath
Guillermo Ameer
Jay T. Groves
Kent L. Hill
Kevin P. White
Lara K. Mahal
Mark J. Schnitzer
Martin T. Zanni
Melanie S. Sanford
Michael H. B. Stowel
Michael T. Green
Paul A. Maggard
== 2003 ==
Adam Matzger
Alexander Li
Consuelo de Moraes
Darrell Irvine
David Lin
David Lynn
Douglas Robinson
Douglas Smith
Gregory Odorizzi
Heather C. Allen
Kevin Yarema
Kim Orth
Kristi Kiick
Lu Chen
Paul Hergenrother
Pingyun Feng
Rustem Ismagilov
Sue Biggins
Xiaowei Zhuang
Zhan Chen
== 2002 ==
Andrei Sanov
Bingwei Lu
Carla Koehler
Colin Nuckolls
Daniel Minor
David Chan
David Liu
Gregory Weiss
Guoping Feng
Heather Carlson
James Schneider
Jason Hafner
Melody Swartz
Peidong Yang
Shiv Halasyamani
Yi Sun
== 2001 ==
Geoffrey Chang
Gerard C. L. Wong
Gero Miesenboeck
Guowei Fang
Hays S. Rye
Jonathan Wilker
Justin Du Bois
Koen Visscher
Leslie B. Vosshall
Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson
Mark C. Hersam
Michael J. Caterina
Paul Cremer
Paul V. Braun
William B. Connick
Zhibin Guan
== 2000 ==
Aaron W. Harper
Angela M. Belcher
Donald H. Burke
Erik J. Sorensen
Geoffrey Coates
James B. Ames
Jeffrey G. Saven
Karlene A. Cimprich
L. Andrew Lyon
Raffi V. Aroian
Sarah H. Tolbert
Sean M. Burgess
Steven E. Jacobsen
Vicki Colvin
Virginia W. Cornish
Wen Bin Lin
== 1999 ==
Christopher Lima
Claudia Turro
Craig Hunter
Daniel Feldheim
Deborah Wuttke
Douglas Barrick
George O'Doherty
John Zhang
Lee Bardwell
Mahdi Abu-Omar
Mei Hong
Michelle Wang
Ram Sasisekharan
Sheila Nirenberg
Todd Martinez
Wilfred A. Van Der Donk
== 1998 ==
Annelise E. Barron
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Charles Brenner
David Y. Gin
John L. Bowman
Joseph Z. Tsien
Kit J. Pogliano
Mark C. Lonergan
Michael D. Sheets
Richard W. Roberts
Robert M. Strongin
Susana Cohen-Cory
Thomas J. Wandless
Timothy J. Deming
William C. Smith
Yang Dan
== 1997 ==
Alexei A.Stuchebrukhov
David S. Bredt
Elizabeth Gavis
Jason Shear
John T. Fourkas
Michael K. Rosen
Rafael Yuste
Raymond Deshaies
Scott Strobel
Sonbinh T. Nguyen
Sonny C. Lee
Stacey Shane Bent
Terence Hwa
Tito A. Serafini
Weihong Tan
Yian Shi
== 1996 ==
Chen-Ming Fan
Erin Schulman
Gang-Yu Liu
Jennifer A. Doudna
Karl T. Mueller
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Lucio Frydman
Ronald Breaker
Roya Maboudian
Scott Reid
Shuming Nie
Stephen J. Kron
Susan R. Wente
William Schafer
Yi Lu
== 1995 ==
Arthur Palmer
David Baker
Frederick M. Hughson
Jefferson Foote
Lawrence R. Sita
Lizbeth Hedstrom
Marcos Dantus
Melissa Hines
Michael J. Mahan
Michael L. Nonet
Nancy Allbritton
Nikola P. Pavletich
Paul E. Laibinis
Susan Marqusee
== 1994 ==
Alcino Silva
Anna Marie Pyle
David M. Ornitz
James D. Marks
James S. Nowick
Laura L. Kiessling
Michael J. Natan
Norbert Scherer
Raymond C. Stevens
Robert T. Kennedy
Seung Koo Shin
Yves Rubin
== 1993 ==
Arlene Sharpe
David C. Schwartz
David W. Piston
Erick M. Carreira
Jeffrey Field
John H. Griffin
Jonathan Ellman
Luping Yu
Michael H. Hecht
Michael J. Sailor
Nancy Makri
Reginald M. Penner
Sheila S. David
Teresa R. Strecker
== 1992 ==
A. J. Shaka
Chad A. Mirkin
David A. Horne
Eric T. Kool
Evan R. Williams
Jose N. Onuchic
Leslie Bell
Martin Yanofsky
Michael J. Therien
Patricia A. Bianconi
Philip A. Anfinrud
Robert M. Weis
== 1991 ==
Curtis A. Monnig
David A. Laude
Douglas Koshland
Frederick Cross
Kathy L. Rowlen
Maria Jasin
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Michelle Hanna
Nancy Carrasco
Reza Ghadiri
Ron Frostig
Sharon L. Neal
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The Leonard G. Berry Medal is an annual award of the Mineralogical Association of Canada. Established in 1987, it is named after Leonard G. Berry (19141982), a Canadian geologist who made notable contributions to mineralogy and who was a founding member of the Association. The award is granted for important contributions to mineral science in Canada or for significant long-term service to the Mineralogical Association of Canada. The medalist is chosen by a committee which includes two past recipients.
== List of recipients ==
1987: A. Ronald Graham
1988: E.W. (Les) Nuffield
1989: Guy Perreault
1990: Joseph A. Mandarino
1991: Richard A. Alcock
1992: John L. Jambor
1993: Louis J. Cabri
1994: Ann Sabina
1995: Robert Gait
1996: Sol Kaimai
1997: J. Murray Duke
1998: Dorian G.W. Smith
1999: Norman M. Halden
2001: Robert F. Martin
2002: Robert T. Downs
2003: Gina Lecheminant
2004: J. Douglas Scott
2005: Pierrette Tremblay
2005: Rob Raeside
2006: Mati Raudsepp
2008: Iain Samson
2011: Bob and Fran Pinard
2015: Martine M. Savard
2016: Jim Nicholls
2019: Lee A. Groat
2021: Malcolm Back
2025: Andrew M. McDonald
== See also ==
List of geology awards
List of earth sciences awards
Prizes named after people
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The Marcel Benoist Prize, offered by the Marcel Benoist Foundation, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 1920 to a scientist of Swiss nationality or residency who has made the most useful scientific discovery. Emphasis is placed on those discoveries affecting human life. Since 1997, candidates in the humanities have also been eligible for the prize.
The Marcel Benoist Foundation was established by the will of the French lawyer Marcel Benoist, a wartime resident of Lausanne, who died in 1918. It is managed by a group of trustees comprising the Swiss interior minister and heads of the main Swiss universities. It has been dubbed the "Swiss Nobel Prize."
== History ==
The first award was given to immunologist Maurice Arthus (18621945) at the University of Lausanne. Other winners have included computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, astronomer Michel Mayor, and cardiologist Max Holzmann. As of 2019, eleven Marcel Benoist winners have later also won the Nobel Prize: Paul Karrer, Leopold Ruzicka, Walter R. Hess, Tadeus Reichstein, Vladimir Prelog, Niels Kaj Jerne, Johannes G. Bednorz, Karl. Alexander Müller, Richard R. Ernst, Kurz Wüthrich, and Michel Mayor.
In 2009, Françoise Gisou van der Goot (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) was the first woman to win the Marcel Benoist Prize.
== Laureates ==
== See also ==
List of general science and technology awards
Science and technology in Switzerland
Prizes named after people
Latsis Foundation
Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
== References ==
== External links ==
Official website (in English, German, French, and Italian)