The Spinoza Prize ( nl, Spinozapremie) is an annual award of 2.5 million
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, to be spent on new research given by the
Dutch Research Council
The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course o ...
(NWO). The award is the highest scientific award in the
Netherlands
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. It is named after the philosopher
Baruch de Spinoza
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The prize is awarded to researchers in the Netherlands who belong to the best in their field.
Academics can nominate each other and an international commission evaluates the submissions. It is sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel Prize.
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List of winners
The following persons have received the Spinoza Prize:
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/programmes/spinoza+prize, name = Spinoza Prize
Awards established in 1995
Dutch science and technology awards
1995 establishments in the Netherlands
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