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I welcome the fact that the Academy concentrates on new knowledge necessary to confront the scourges of today's society

Pope Francis

Evolution doesn't conflict with Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve

Pope Francis

Evolution doesn't conflict with Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve

Pope Francis

Welcome to the new Chancellor, H. Em. Peter K.A. Turkson!

Pontifical Academy of Sciences

We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity

Pope Francis

We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity

Pope Francis

We are not custodians of a museum but cooperators in protecting and developing life and biodiversity

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

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

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 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

I thank the Academy for its valued cooperation in combating the crime against humanity that is human trafficking

Pope Francis

I thank the Academy for its valued cooperation in combating the crime against humanity that is human trafficking

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

I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith

Pope Benedict XVI

I am convinced of the urgent need for continued dialogue and cooperation between the worlds of science and of faith

Pope Benedict XVI

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

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

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 Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”

Pope Francis

The Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”

Pope Francis

The Church doesn't expect science merely to follow principles of ethics. It expects “charity of knowledge”

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

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

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Final Statement of the Workshop on Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet

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Final Statement of the Plenary Session on Basic science for human development, peace, and planetary health

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Final Statement of the Workshop on Resilience of People and Ecosystems Under Climate Stress

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Final Statement of the Workshop on Looking to the Future: Stem Cells, Organoids and Regenerative Medicine

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Pope: Nations must work together to adapt to climate change

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Cambiamenti climatici: la chiave è rendere resilienti persone ed ecosistemi

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Afrontar los riesgos climáticos reduciendo las emisiones

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Cambio climático: El Papa pide "esfuerzos valientes, cooperativos y con visión de futuro"

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Papa Francesco, “le sfide climatiche richiedono un approccio multidimensionale”

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Le Pape invite à réduire les émissions pour affronter les risques climatiques

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Paul Berg

Most important awards, prizes and academies Awards: Work on the genetic apparatus that directs the synthesis of proteins earned Dr. Berg the Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry (1959) ...

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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; ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Suzanne Cory

Most important awards, prizes and academies Awards: David Syme Prize, University of Melbourne (1982); Lemberg Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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), ...

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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 ...

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Gerhard L. Ertl

Most important awards, prizes and academies Honorary Memberships: 2009, Deutscher Hochschulverband; 2008, Dechema (German Society of Chemical Technology); 2008, GDCh (German ...

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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); ...

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Elaine Fuchs

Most important awards, prizes and academies Academic qualifications: University of Illinois, B.S. Chemistry, 1972, Highest distinction in the curriculum; Princeton University, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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); ...

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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 ...

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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; ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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); ...

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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 ...

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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; ...

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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 ...

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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; ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Yuri Ivanovich Manin

Most important awards, prizes and academies Awards: Moscow Mathematical Society (1963); Lenin Prize for work in Algebraic Geometry (1967); Brouwer Golden Medal for work in Number ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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Rudolf Muradyan

Most important awards, prizes and academies Lenin Prize for Physics, 1988; National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan (1986); Pontificia Academia Scientiarium ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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) ...

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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 ...

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Yves Quéré

Most important awards, prizes and academies Awards: Commandeur, Légion d'honneur; Commandeur, Légion d'honneur. Academic Appointments: Chairman, Department of Physics, École ...

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Veerabhadran Ramanathan

Most important awards, prizes and academies Academies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; American Meteorological Society; 2002-date ...

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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), ...

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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); ...

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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 ...

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Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe

Most important awards, prizes and academies Awards: 'Máxima Calificación' Graduation Prize of the Engineering Class of 1963, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela, 1963; Research ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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Hans Tuppy

Most important awards, prizes and academies Academies: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher 'Leopoldina'; Österreichische Akademie der Wissen schaften; Pontifical Academy of ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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), ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Publications

Science and Survival. A focus on SARS-CoV-2 and connections between large-scale risks for life on this planet and opportunities of science to address them

Proceedings of the Plenary Session | 7-9 October 2020 J. von Braun, M. Sánchez ...