The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
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History
On 15 Feb ...
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Alfred Heineken
Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken (4 November 1923 – 3 January 2002) was a Dutch businessman for Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. He served as chairman of the boar ...
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (born 30 June 1954) is a Dutch billionaire businesswoman, and the owner of a 25% controlling interest in the world's second-largest brewer, Heineken N.V. She is the richest person in the Netherlands, with a net wo ...
, current chair of the Heineken Prizes Foundations, which fund all Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences. Thirteen winners of the Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics or the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine subsequently were awarded a
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
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Organization
The five science prizes ($200,000 each) are:
1. Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
2–4. Dr A. H. Heineken Prizes for History, Medicine and Environmental Sciences
5. C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences
In 1988, the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Art was established to be awarded to an outstanding artist working in the Netherlands. The prize is €100,000, half of which is to be spent on a publication and/or exhibit.
Since 2010, Heineken Young Scientists Awards are given to young talent in similar research fields as the Dr H. P. Heineken, Dr A. H. Heineken and C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prizes.
Selection
The selection system of the Heineken Prizes can be compared to that of the Nobel Prizes. Scientists from all over the world are invited to nominate fellow scientists for the Heineken Prizes. The Royal Netherlands Academy appoints special committees consisting of eminent scientists and chaired by a member of the board of one of the academy's two divisions. Both members and nonmembers of the academy are eligible for membership of these committees. An independent jury of members of the academy, acting in a personal capacity, chooses the winners of the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Art.
The Heineken Prizes are awarded in a special session of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which takes place every even year at the
Beurs van Berlage
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in Amsterdam. In 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 the Prizes were presented by the
Prince of Orange
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List of laureates
Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
*2022
Carolyn Bertozzi
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*2020
Bruce Stillman
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*2018
Xiaowei Zhuang
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*2016
Jennifer Doudna
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Franz-Ulrich Hartl
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*2008
Jack W. Szostak
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Andrew Z. Fire
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James Rothman
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Paul M. Nurse
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Piet Borst
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*1990
Philip Leder
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Early life and education
Leder was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1956. In 1960, he graduated from Harvard Medical Sc ...
Bela Julesz
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* Bela, Dang, in Nepal
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and
Werner E. Reichardt
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*1982
Charles Weissmann
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Christian de Duve
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*1970
Britton Chance
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Erwin Chargaff
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Karl Deisseroth
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Stephen Jackson
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Hans Clevers
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*2010
Ralph Steinman
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*2008 Sir
Richard Peto
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Education
He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequ ...
*2006
Mary-Claire King
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David de Wied
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Due to the necessity of hiding as a Jew during the Second World War, De Wied only started in 1947 studying medicine ...
Salvador Moncada
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In the past, he was the Research Directo ...
Paul C. Lauterbur
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Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences
Georgina Mace
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William Laurance
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*2010
David Tilman
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Paul R. Ehrlich
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Lorraine Daston
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Judith Herrin
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*2014
Aleida Assmann
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Life
Born Aleida Bornk ...
Rosamond McKitterick
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*2008
Jonathan Israel
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Jacques Le Goff
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Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term t ...
*2002
Heinz Schilling
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Life
Heinz Schilling was born in Bergneustadt in Berg and grew up in Cologne. After studying history, German, philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne and completing a sta ...
Mona Ozouf
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*1996
Heiko A. Oberman
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Life
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Herman Van der Wee
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Robert Zatorre
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*2018
Nancy Kanwisher
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*2016
Elizabeth Spelke
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Starting in the 1980s, she carried out experi ...
John Duncan John Duncan may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* John Duncan (painter) (1866–1945), Scottish painter
* John Duncan (artist) (born 1953), American artist and musician
* Big John Duncan (born 1958), Scottish punk musician
* John Duncan (harpist) ...
*2010
Michael Tomasello
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Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he is c ...
Remy Jungerman
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh
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*2010 Mark Manders
*2008
Barbara Visser
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Daan van Golden
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Guido Geelen
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*1996
Karel Martens Karel Martens (born 1939) is a Dutch freelance graphic designer, specialized in typography
Biography
Martens was born in Mook en Middelaar in 1939 and graduated from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Industrial Arts of the Netherlands in 1961 where ...
Carel Visser
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Life and work
Visser was born on 3 May 1928 in Papendrecht. From 194 ...
*1990
Marrie Bot
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Biography
Born in Bergambacht, Bot started her career in 1963 as a graphic designer. She received some formal art education at the Vrije Academie in The Hague in the 1 ...
The following winners of the Heineken Prizes for Medicine and Biochemistry and Biophysics have since won a
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
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Christian de Duve
Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared ...
** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1973
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
* Aaron Klug
** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1979
** Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982
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Thomas Cech
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** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1988
** Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989
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Paul C. Lauterbur
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** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 1989
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
* Paul Nurse
** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1996
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
* Barry J. Marshall
** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 1998
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005
* Eric R. Kandel
** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine in 2000
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
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Andrew Z. Fire
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** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2004
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
* Roger Y. Tsien
** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2002
** Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
*
Jack W. Szostak
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** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2008
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
*
Elizabeth Blackburn
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** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2004
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
* Ralph M. Steinman
** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2010
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
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Carolyn Bertozzi
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** Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2022
** Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
See also
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