The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
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History
On 15 Febr ...
, Alfred Heineken, former chairman of Heineken Holdings, and Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, 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
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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
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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
Jennifer Doudna
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Titia de Lange
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Piet Borst
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Bela Julesz
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and
Werner E. Reichardt
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Aaron Klug
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Christian de Duve
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*1970
Britton Chance
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Erwin Chargaff
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Hans Clevers
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Richard Peto
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He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subseq ...
*2006
Mary-Claire King
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*2004
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
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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 medici ...
*1994
Luc Montagnier
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*1992
Salvador Moncada
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Paul C. Lauterbur
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Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences
Corinne Le Quéré
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Georgina Mace
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William Laurance
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Herman Daly
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*1994
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Sunil Amrith
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J. R. McNeill
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Jacques Le Goff
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Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...
*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 s ...
Mona Ozouf
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Peter Gay
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C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences (before 2014: Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences)
Nancy Kanwisher
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Stanislas Dehaene
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Erik van Lieshout
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Biography
Erik van Lieshout was resident from 1990 to 1992 at de Ateliers ’63 in Haarle ...
Wendelien van Oldenborgh
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*2010
Mark Manders
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*2008
Barbara Visser
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Daan van Golden
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*2002
Aernout Mik
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Biography
Mik spent his childhood in Groningen and studied there from 1983 to 1988 at the Academie Minerva. He also had lessons from . ...
*2000
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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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 ...
*1988
Toon Verhoef
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Nobel Prizes
The following winners of the Heineken Prizes for Medicine and Biochemistry and Biophysics have since won a
Nobel Prize
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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
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Aaron Klug
Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of bi ...
** 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
Paul Christian Lauterbur (May 6, 1929 – March 27, 2007) was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possi ...
** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 1989
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
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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 alo ...
** 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
* Andrew Z. Fire
** 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
** Dr. H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2008
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2004
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
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Ralph M. Steinman
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** Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2010
** Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
* Carolyn Bertozzi
** Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2022
** Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
See also
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