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Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Science's task is a patient yet passionate search for the truth about the cosmos, nature and the constitution of the human being
Pope Benedict XVI
Today’s scientists are more open to religious values and can glimpse the richness of the spiritual world and the light of divine transcendence
Pope Francis
We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity
Pope Francis
The Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”
Pope Francis
Today’s scientists are more open to religious values and can glimpse the richness of the spiritual world and the light of divine transcendence
Pope Francis
I thank the Academy for its valued cooperation in combating the crime against humanity that is human trafficking
Pope Francis
I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith
Pope Benedict XVI
The meetings of the Academy have contributed to a more fruitful dialogue between the Church and the scientific community
Pope St John Paul II
Evolution doesn't conflict with Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve
Pope Francis
I welcome the fact that the Academy concentrates on new knowledge necessary to confront the scourges of today's society
Pope Francis
I welcome the fact that the Academy concentrates on new knowledge necessary to confront the scourges of today's society
Pope Francis
We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity
Pope Francis
I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith
Pope Benedict XVI
I welcome the fact that the Academy concentrates on new knowledge necessary to confront the scourges of today's society
Pope Francis
The meetings of the Academy have contributed to a more fruitful dialogue between the Church and the scientific community
Pope St John Paul II
The meetings of the Academy have contributed to a more fruitful dialogue between the Church and the scientific community
Pope St John Paul II
I thank the Academy for its valued cooperation in combating the crime against humanity that is human trafficking
Pope Francis
The Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”
Pope Francis
Evolution doesn't conflict with Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve
Pope Francis
I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith
Pope Benedict XVI
We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity
Pope Francis
The Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”
Pope Francis
I thank the Academy for its valued cooperation in combating the crime against humanity that is human trafficking
Pope Francis
Science's task is a patient yet passionate search for the truth about the cosmos, nature and the constitution of the human being
Pope Benedict XVI
The meetings of the Academy have contributed to a more fruitful dialogue between the Church and the scientific community
Pope St John Paul II
Science's task is a patient yet passionate search for the truth about the cosmos, nature and the constitution of the human being
Pope Benedict XVI
Today’s scientists are more open to religious values and can glimpse the richness of the spiritual world and the light of divine transcendence
Pope Francis
News
Commemoration of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, former member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Dear Academicians, Colleagues and Friends of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences,
You have certainly heard the sad news of the death of Pope Benedict XVI which occurred in the ...
Academicians
Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged
Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged was born in 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia and is currently the Donald N. Pritzker Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and ...
Werner Arber
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1978). Academies: European Molecular Biology Organization (1964); European Academy of Arts, ...
Frances Hamilton Arnold
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Membership of Professional Societies: Royal Academy of Engineering (UK); American Philosophical Society; American Academy of Arts and ...
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Most important awards, prizes and academies
SRE Scientific Prize 2011, IV Simpósio de Reabilitação Esportiva USP-RP; Personalidade da Tecnologia Prize 2011, Sindicato dos ...
David Baltimore
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: First recipient of the Gustave Stern Award in Virology (1970); Warren Triennial Prize from the Massachusetts General ...
Antonio M. Battro
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Premio Nacional de Ciencias, Psicología y Educación, Argentina (1970); Premio Mira y López, Fund. Getulio Vargas, Rio de ...
David Baulcombe
Most important awards, prizes and academies
National Honour: Knight Bachelor, (Queens Birthday Honours list 2009). Awards: Sir Hans Krebs Medal and Lecture (2021) Federation of ...
Robert Eric Betzig
Most important prizes, awards and academies
1992 William L. McMillan Award; 1993 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research; 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; ...
Helen M. Blau
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1991), Senior Career Recognition Award of WICB, American ...
Thierry Boon-Falleur
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Prix Rik et Nel Wouters pour la recherche sur le cancer (1986); Prix De Vooght d'Immunologie (1986); Cancer Research Institute, ...
Joachim von Braun
Most important awards, prizes and academies
“One World Medal in Gold”, donated by the Federal German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development “for research and service to ...
Luis Ángel Caffarelli
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Professional societies: American Mathematical Society; American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986); National Academy of Sciences ...
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Lab Head and Guest Professor at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Vienna, (2002-04); Lab Head, Assistant ...
Chien-Jen Chen
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Fellowships: Overseas Fellow, American College of Epidemiology, 1989; Fogarty International Research Fellow, US National Institute of ...
Steven Chu
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the Medical ...
Aaron J. Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover was born in Haifa, Israel in 1947. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ...
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Nobel Prize in Physics (1997); Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur; Commandeur de l'Ordre national du mérit; Big Cross of the National ...
Francis S. Collins
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Dr. Collins is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. In recognition of his ...
Suzanne Cory
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: David Syme Prize, University of Melbourne (1982); Lemberg Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ...
Edward M. De Robertis
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Edward De Robertis is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the European ...
Stanislas Dehaene
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Fanny Emden Prize, French Academy of Sciences (1996); Jean Rostand Award for the book La Bosse des Maths (1997); James S. McDonnell ...
Francis L. Delmonico
Most important awards, prizes and academies
In 2005, Dr. Delmonico was elected President of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the federally designated Organ Procurement ...
Ewine Fleur van Dishoeck
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Van Dishoeck is a (foreign) member or associate of several academies, including Member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (2001), ...
Jennifer A. Doudna
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honorary Doctorates of Science: University of Leuven, 2015; Yale University, 2016; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2017 Hong Kong ...
Gerhard L. Ertl
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honorary Memberships: 2009, Deutscher Hochschulverband; 2008, Dechema (German Society of Chemical Technology); 2008, GDCh (German ...
Albert Eschenmoser
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Benoist Prize, Swiss Gov. (1973); Welch Award, R.A. Welch Foundation, Houston, TX (1974); Cope Award, Amer. Chem. Soc. (1984); ...
Elaine Fuchs
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Academic qualifications: University of Illinois, B.S. Chemistry, 1972, Highest distinction in the curriculum; Princeton University, ...
Antonio García-Bellido
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Principe de Asturias de Investigación Científica, Spain (1984); Leopold Mayer de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris, France ...
Reinhard Genzel
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards and Honors: 1970 Alfred Maul Medal, Bertold Gymnasium, Freiburg, Germany; 1973 Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des ...
Fabiola Gianotti
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh; Corresponding or foreign associate member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (Lincei), the ...
Takashi Gojobori
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Society Prize (Kihara Medal), The Genetic Society of Japan (2005); Society Prize (Motoo Kimura Medal), The Society of Evolutionary ...
Theodor W. Hänsch
Most important awards, prizes and academies
California Scientist of the Year, Calif. Museum of Science and Industry; Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award (1977); ...
Mohamed H.A. Hassan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Professor Hassan is the President, Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS), Chairman, Board of Trustees, Almashriq University ...
Edith Heard
Most important awards, prizes and academies
2020 L’Oréal-UNESCO prize for Women in Science International Award 2020 2019 Hansen Family Award, 2019; 2017 Grand Prix of INSERM 2017; ...
Stefan W. Hell
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Study of physics and doctorate University of Heidelberg (1990), postdoc EMBL Heidelberg (1991-1993), Senior Researcher University of ...
Michael Heller
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Zonn Medal, Polish Astronomical Society for the popularization of science (1986); Templeton Prize (2008). Academies: Ordinary ...
Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Three civilian awards from the Government of India: the Padma Shri (1982), Padma Bhushan (1992) and Padma Vibhushan (2000); ...
Klaus von Klitzing
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Schottky Prize (1981); Hewlett Packard Prize (1982); Nobel Prize in Physics (1985); Dirac Medal (1988); Philip Morris Prize ...
Jürgen A. Knoblich
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Societies: 2020 Board of Directors, ISSCR (International Society for Stem Cell Research); 2014 EMBO council, elected member; ...
Eric S. Lander
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Elected Academies: Council on Foreign Relations, 2014; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class of Biosciences, 2013 European Molecular ...
Nicole Marthe C. Le Douarin
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Academy of Sciences, France; Royal Academy of Belgium; Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, Japan; Jeantet Prize in Medicine; ...
Tsung-Dao Lee
ost important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1957); Albert Einstein Award in Science; Galileo Galilei Medal; Order of Merit, Grande Ufficiale, ...
Yuan-Tseh Lee
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Fellowships: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1969-71; Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher Scholar Grant, Recipient 1971-4; Fellow, ...
Jean-Marie Lehn
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Gold Medal of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1981); Gold Medal of the CNRS (1981); Paracelsus Prize of the Swiss Chemical ...
Pierre Jean Léna
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Officier de la Légion d'honneur; Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite; Commandeur de l’Ordre du Lion (Sénégal); Prix Deslandres et ...
Jane Lubchenco
Most important awards, prizes and academies
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society, The World Academy of Science and others, her awards include 22 ...
Juan Maldacena
Most important awards, prizes and academies
2019, Galileo Galilei Medal; 2018, Lorentz Medal; 2018, Richard E. Prange Prize; 2018, Einstein Medal; 2012, Milner Foundation ...
Jürgen Mittelstraß
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Leibniz-Prize, German Research Society (1989); Arthur Burkhardt Prize (1992); Lorenz Oken Medal, Society of German Scientists ...
Erna Möller
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences; Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. Chairman of Karolinska ...
Salvador Moncada
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1994); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, ...
Rudolf Muradyan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Lenin Prize for Physics, 1988; National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan (1986); Pontificia Academia Scientiarium ...
Sergey Petrovich Novikov
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Fields Medal (1970); Lenin Prize (1967); Lobachevski International Prize (1981); Wolf Prize (2005). Academies: USSR/Russian ...
Ryoji Noyori
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Japan Academy Prize (1995); Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (1997); King Faisal International Prize for ...
José Nelson Onuchic
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honours: 2019 Medal of Honor and Honorary Professor, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; 2019 ...
William D. Phillips
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Gold Medal, Dept. of Commerce (1993); Michelson Medal, Franklin Institute (1996); Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Steven ...
Stefano Piccolo
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honors/Awards: 2003: A. Minich Award from Istituto Veneto Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice); 2005: International Swissbridge Award ...
John Charles Polanyi
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society, UK (1962); Steacie Prize for the Natural Sciences (1965); Henry Marshall Tory Medal of the ...
Ingo Potrykus
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honours: ISPMB International Award in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2000; American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) ...
Stanley Prusiner
Stanley B. Prusiner is Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Professor of Neurology and Biochemistry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He ...
Yves Quéré
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Commandeur, Légion d'honneur; Commandeur, Légion d'honneur. Academic Appointments: Chairman, Department of Physics, École ...
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Academies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; 2002-date ...
Chintamani N.R. Rao
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Among the various medals, honours and awards received by him, mention must be made of the Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society (1967), ...
Peter Hamilton Raven
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Distinguished Service Award, American Inst. of Biological Studies (1981); Int. Environmental Leadership Medal of UNEP (1982); ...
Martin John Rees
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Heinemann Prize of Amer. Inst. Phys. (1984); Bappu Medal, Indian Nac. Sci. Acad. (1986); Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society ...
Carlo Rubbia
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Physics (1984). Academies: He is a member of 27 Academies, ...
Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Lenin Prize (1984); Hero of Socialist Labour (1986); Tate Medal, American Institute of Physics (1992); Science for Peace, Italy ...
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards & Prizes: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber received, inter alia, the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2002), the German ...
Maxine F. Singer
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: US Government Senior Executive Service Outstanding Performance Award; National Medal of Science (1992); Vanneva-Bush Award ...
Wolf Joachim Singer
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Prize of the IPSEN Foundation (1991); Ernst Jung Prize for Science and Research (1994); Zülch Prize (1994); Hessischer ...
Susan Solomon
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2018); Bakerian Prize, Royal Society, UK (2018); BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Prize, ...
Donna T. Strickland
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honours and awards: 2021 Honorary Member European Academy of Science and Arts; 2020 International Member, National Academy of ...
Hans Tuppy
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Academies: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher 'Leopoldina'; Österreichische Akademie der Wissen schaften; Pontifical Academy of ...
Rafael Vicuña
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Honours: Fulbright Foundation, travel fellowship (1974, 1978); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, fellowship for Ph.D. ...
Cédric Villani
Most important awards, prizes and academies
He has received several national and international prizes for his research, in particular the Knight of the National Order of Merit ...
Edward Witten
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Dirac Medal, International Center for Theoretical Physics, 1985; Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation, 1985; Fellow, ...
Maryanne Wolf
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Highest awards for use of neuroscience in dyslexia and education: International Dyslexia Association (Geschwind and Orton Awards), ...
Shinya Yamanaka
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards and prizes: JSPS Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2007); Robert-Koch Preis, Germany (2008); The Special Prize ...
Chen Ning Yang
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1957); US National Medal of Science (1986); King Faisal International Prize (2001). Academies: US ...
Ada E. Yonath
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Dr Yonath has won the following awards: Prakash S. Datta medal, FEBS, Sevilla 2012; Academia Sinica Award, Taiwan 2012; City of ...
Antonino Zichichi
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Many honours and awards have been conferred upon Antonino Zichichi for his outstanding discoveries and inventions and for his ...
Jean-Michel Maldamé, OP
Most important awards, prizes and academies
1er Prix des Libraires Catholiques, Siloë (1999). Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1997).
Summary of scientific research
Dialogue ...
Brother Guy Joseph Consolmagno, SJ
Most important awards, prizes and academies
Fellow of the Meteoritical Society, 2008; PhD Honoris Causa of Humane Letters, Georgetown University, 2014; Carl Sagan Medal, for ...
Events
Food and Humanitarian Crises: Science and Policies for Prevention and Mitigation
9-10 May 2023
Building on earlier food related PAS conferences: The Pontifical Academy of Sciences ...
Strategies to decrease inequalities in cancer therapeutics/care and prevention
23-24 February 2023
Inequalities tend to be systemic and often entrenched in socio-economic and political ...
Care for Our Common Home
4 October 2022
The Holy See, in the name and on behalf of the Vatican City State, recently deposited ...
Publications
Resilience of People and Ecosystems under Climate Stress
Proceedings of the Working Group 13-14 July 2022 Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Joachim ...
Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet
Proceedings of the Working Group 9-10 June 2022 Hans J. Schellnhuber ...
Science and Innovations for a Sustainable Food System – Preparing for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021
A selection of talks from the Workshop Science and Innovations for a Sustainable ...
Dreaming of a Better Restart
A selection of talks from the Workshop Dreaming of a Better Restart 14 May ...
Statements
Final Statement of the Conference on “Strategies to decrease inequalities in cancer therapeutics/care and prevention”
15 March 2023
Abstract Cancer prevention and therapeutics/care show important disparities ...
Basic science for human development, peace, and planetary health
8-10 September 2022
Abstract The 2022 Plenary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences explored and ...
Final Statement of the Workshop on Resilience of People and Ecosystems Under Climate Stress
23 August 2022
The Climate Challenge: A Grave Danger. The continued emissions of heat trapping gases ...