The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea) is a transnational and interdisciplinary network, connecting about 2,000 recommended scientists and artists worldwide, including 37

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laureates. The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a

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of scientists and artists, founded by

Felix Unger Felix Unger (born 2 March 1946 in Klagenfurt, Austria) is a heart specialist who served as the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for three decades. He is the president of Alma Mater Europaea. In 1986 he performed the first ar ...

. The academy was founded 1990, is situated in Salzburg and has been supported by the city of

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, the government of Austria, and the

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. The EASA is now headed by President

Klaus Mainzer Klaus Mainzer (born 1947) is a German philosopher and scientist. Mainzer is the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of the widely translated, cited, and reviewed book ''Thinking in Complexity''. Academi ...

, TUM Emeritus of Excellence at the Technical University of Munich and Senior Professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center of the University of Tübingen. It is unrelated to and should not be confused with a different, highly controversial, and less well-established academy, the Belgium-based European Academy of Sciences. It is a member of the

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. Its activities have included a collaboration with the Latvian Academy of Sciences: the European-Latvian Institute for Cultural and Scientific Exchange (EUROLAT), founded in 1993.

History

The origins date back to a scientific working group with the Salzburg cardiac surgeon Felix Unger, the Archbishop from Vienna Franz König and the political scientist and philosopher Nikolaus Lobkowicz. On 7 March 1990, the academy was officially founded in Salzburg, where the academy is still located until today. The Festive Plenary of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts takes place annually with the festive admission of new members in Salzburg. On the occasion of the 25th- and 30th- anniversary the celebrations took place with the Federal Presidents of Austria and other Presidents of European countries. Other Protectors (national patrons) of the academy are King Philippe of Belgium, Borut Pahor (State President of Slovenia), Gjorge Ivanov (State President of Macedonia) and since 12 June 2018 Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen. Past Protektors are i. a. the former EU Commission President and Prime Minister of Luxembourg

Jacques Santer Jacques Santer (born 18 May 1937) is a Luxembourg politician who served as the 9th President of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999. He served as Finance Minister of Luxembourg from 1979 until 1989, and the 20th Prime Minister of Luxe ...

, the former King of Spain Juan Carlos I and the former EU Commission President and Italian Prime Minister

Romano Prodi Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Pr ...

Vision and membership

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is politically independent and financed by donations, private sponsors and public institutions. The activities of the academy do not aim at financial profit. The academy is a forum of scholars who take up interdisciplinarily and trannsdisciplinarily scientific topics with societal impact. In 2020, the academy had round about 2000 members worldwide, including 34 Nobel Prize Laureates. These are respected and recommended scientists and artists, among them 37 nobel prize laureats. The membership can be awarded following suggestions of their members. The Senate decides on admission on the basis of recommendations of the nomination commission. The membership is considered as distinction of the merits in science and society. Famous members of the academy are i. a. the economist Hans-Werner Sinn, Michail Gorbatschow (Nobel Peace Prize), the artist Jenny Holzer and Pope em. Benedict XVI. Current members who are Nobel Prize Laureates are as follows. * Zhores I. Alferov, Physics 2000 * Werner Arber, Medicine 1978 *

Gerd Binnig Gerd Binnig (; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope. Early life and education Binnig wa ...

, Physics 1986 * Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry 2004 * Paul J. Crutzen, Chemistry 1995 * François Englert, Physics 2013 * Gerhard Ertl, Chemistry 2007 *

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, Physics 2010 *

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Com ...

, Peace 1990 * Peter Grünberg, Physics 2007 * Theodor W. Hänsch, Physics 2005 *

Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize ...

, Physics 2013 *

Jules A. Hoffmann Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the y ...

, Medicine 2011 *

Harald zur Hausen Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (; born 11 March 1936) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel ...

, Medicine 2008 *

Robert Huber Robert Huber (; born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's st ...

, Chemistry 1988 * Tim Hunt, Physiology or Medicine 2001 * Eric Kandel, Physiology or Medicine 2000 * Wolfgang Ketterle, Physics 2001 * Bernard Lown, Peace 1985 *

Luc Montagnier Luc Montagnier (; , ; 18 August 1932 – 8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient, with and , of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He worked as a r ...

, Medicine 2008 *

May-Britt Moser May-Britt Moser (born 4 January 1963) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her then-husband, Edvard Moser, shar ...

, Physiology or Medicine 2014 *

Erwin Neher Erwin Neher (; ; born 20 March 1944) is a German biophysicist, specializing in the field of cell physiology. For significant contribution in the field, in 1991 he was awarded, along with Bert Sakmann, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine fo ...

, Medicine 1991 * Konstantin Novoselov, Physics 2010 *

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his ...

, Chemistry 2001 *

Sir Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse (born 25 January 1949) is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along w ...

, Medicine 2001 * Edmund S. Phelps, Economics 2006 *

John C. Polanyi John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...

, Chemistry 1986 *

Brian P. Schmidt Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's M ...

, Physics 2011 * Dan Shechtman, Chemistry 2011 * Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics 2002 * Fraser Stoddart, Chemistry 2016 *

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, Physiology or Medicine 2013 *

Torsten N. Wiesel Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was ...

, Medicine 1981 * Kurt Wüthrich, Chemistry 2002 * Klaus Hasselmann, Physics 2021 * Emmanuelle Charpentier, Chemistry 2020 *

Anton Zeilinger Anton Zeilinger (; born 20 May 1945) is an Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. Zeilinger is professor of physics emeritus at the University of Vienna and senior scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Qu ...

, Physics 2022 Mainzer2022

Organisation

The academy is a non-profit association according to the Austrian Association. The current President of the academy is Klaus Mainzer who in 2020 followed the Founding President Felix Unger. The Vice presidents are Birgit Harreß, Wolfango Plastino, and Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth. Members of the academy come from 73 countries and are divided into eight classes: *Class I: Humanities – Dean: Andreas Önnerfors *Class II: Medicine – Dean: Dusan Suput *Class III: Arts – Dean: Violeta Dinescu *Class IV: Natural Sciences – Dean: Ioannis Liritzis *Class V: Social Sciences, Law, and Economics – Dean: Kurt Schmoller *Class VI: Technology and Environmental Sciences – Dean: Sergio Orlandi *Class VII: World Religions – Dean: Mariano Delgado

Prize of Tolerance

Since 1997 the European Academy of Sciences and Arts has awarded the Prize of Tolerance to acknowledge the engagement for humanity and tolerance. Guided by the targets of the Charter of Tolerance, this prize is awarded to persons or institutions which actively engage for tolerance and humanness, but also for cross-border dialogue and against racism. The previous award winners are: * 1997 Teddy Kollek * 1998 Suzanne Mubarak * 1999 Franz Kardinal König * 2000 Astrid N. Heiberg * 2002 Dorothea Rosenblad * 2003 Djibrail Kassab * 2004 Daniel Barenboim * 2005 Giandomenico Picco * 2006 Hans-Dietrich Genscher * 2007 Flavio Cotti * 2008 Eugen Biser * 2009

Klaus Töpfer Klaus Töpfer (born 29 July 1938) is a German politician ( CDU) and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Early life and education Töpfer was born in ...

* 2010 Karl Kardinal Lehmann * 2011 Daniel Barenboim * 2013 Pedro Opeka * 2015 Internationales Olympisches Komitee * 2016 Roland Riz * 2018 Marko Feingold * 2019 Hans Peter Haselsteiner

Rings of Tolerance

Prize award of the Rings of Tolerance in the City Hall of Cologne Since 2012, the academy annually awards the Rings of Tolerance to members of the three religions of Abraham according to Lessing's Parable of the Ring, in ordert to support justice and tolerance between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The previous award winners are: * 2012 Lord

George Weidenfeld George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, ...

Karl Cardinal Lehmann Karl Lehmann (16 May 1936 – 11 March 2018) was a German Cardinal prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to Cardinal in 2001. He also served as Chairman of the Conference of the Ger ...

and Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh * 2013

Evelyn de Rothschild Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild (29 August 1931 – 7 November 2022) was a British financier and a member of the Rothschild family. Early life Evelyn de Rothschild was born on 29 August 1931. The son of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1 ...

, Friede Springer and Nemir Kirdar * 2014

André Azoulay André Azoulay ( ar, أندري أزولاي, Berber: ⴰⵏⴷⵔⵉ ⴰⵣⵓⵍⴰⵢ, born 17 April 1941) is a Moroccan Jewish senior adviser to king Mohammed VI of Morocco.

(Adviser of King Mohammed VI of Morocco), Hubert Burda and Prince Hassan of Jordan * 2015 Xavier Guerrand-Hermès,

Farah Pandith Farah Pandith (born January 13, 1968) is an American academic of Indian descent. She was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities in June 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Harry Woolf * 2016 Péter Cardinal Erdő,

Uri Lubrani Uriel Lubrani (; October 7, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an Israeli diplomat and military official. In 1964, he joined the diplomatic corps of the Foreign Ministry, and was appointed ambassador to Uganda and non-resident ambassador to Burundi and R ...

, Ismail Serageldin * 2017

Avishay Braverman Avishay Braverman ( he, אבישי ברוורמן, born 15 January 1948) is an economics professor, politician, and Israeli public figure. Having held senior positions as economist at the World Bank, he was later elected as fifth president of the ...

, Rabeya Müller, Mitri Raheb * 2018 Katajun Amirpur,

Esther Bejarano Esther is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. In the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, is deposed for disobeying him. Hadassah, a Jewess who goes by the name of Esther, is chosen ...

, Doris Leuthard * 2019

Mouhanad Khorchide Mouhanad Khorchide (born September 6, 1971, in Beirut) is an Austrian sociologist and Islamic theologian, teaching as a professor at the University of Münster in Germany. Personal life and studies Khorchide was raised in Saudi Arabia where h ...

,Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster Exzellenzcluster Religion und Politik Aktuelles vom 18. November 2018: "Eine unabhängige Stimme". Toleranzring für islamischen Theologen Prof. Dr. Mouhanad Khorchide
22 December 2019. Jan und Aleida Assmann *2021

Walter Homolka Walter Homolka (born 21 May 1964 in Landau an der Isar) is a German rabbi. Homolka studied in Munich, London, Lampeter and Leipzig and has a PhD from King's College London. He is an adjunct full professor at the University of Potsdam and recto ...

, Andrea Riccardi, Edmond Brahimaj

Fellows

Following are some fellows of European Academy of Sciences and Arts: *

Giorgio Benedek Giorgio Benedek (born 4 February 1941) is an Italian physicist, academic and researcher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics of Matter at University of Milano-Bicocca and Director of the International School of Solid State Physics at Ettore Ma ...

* Xin Shi

References

External links

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