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Press release 2 January, 2020 Winners in the 12th edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards to be announced as of 8 January
The BBVA Foundation established these awards in 2008 to recognize seminal contributions in addressing the major issues of the 21st century
Each of the eight award categories is decided by a committee of international experts, who rate the nominations put forward b and research institutions
This edition will feature the first award in the domain of the Social Sciences
Between 8 January 8 and 15 April, the eight international committees in the corresponding categories of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards will meet to deliberate and decide on the winners in the 12th edition.
Created in 2008 by the BBVA Foundation, the awards distinguish high-impact contributions in the disciplines that make up the knowledge map of the 21st century. The work of the international committees, formed by leading experts who arrive at their decisions independently, applying the indicators and metrics of excellence proper to each area, has cemented the prestige of a family of awa foremost academic and research institutions.
Eleven of the 119 laureates in editions to date of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, winners of the Frontiers Award in Basic Sciences in 2011, while the Economics Nobel went to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, founders and directors of the Poverty Action Lab at MIT distinguished with the Frontiers Award for Development Cooperation in 2008. Previously, Shinya Yamanaka and James P. Allison, both Frontiers awardees in Biomedicine, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2012 and 2018 respectively, while Robert J. Lefkowitz, awardee in the same Frontiers category in 2009, received the Chemistry Nobel in 2012. In Economics, Finance and Management, three Frontiers laureates were subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize; Lars Peter Hansen in 2013, Jean Tirole in 2014, and Angus Deaton in 2015. This list was more
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The BBVA Foundation is partnered in the awards by the Spanish National Research Council
This edition will be the first to feature an award for Social Sciences, following the addition last year of the new category of Humanities and Social Sciences, in which the award alternates annually between these two domains, starting in the 11th edition with the Humanities. headquarters. The winners will be announced at press conferences featuring a live connection with the new laureate(s), who will take questions from the journalists in attendance.
Calendar of announcement events
Climate Change Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
Biology and Biomedicine Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
Ecology and Conservation Biology Tuesday, 4 February, 2020
Information and Communication Wednesday, 19 February, 2020 Technologies (ICT)
Basic Sciences Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
Economics, Finance and Management Tuesday, 17 March, 2020
Music and Opera Tuesday, 31 March, 2020
Humanities and Social Sciences Wednesday, 15 April, 2020
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Laureates in the 11th edition
The awards in the 11th edition went to physicists Charles L. Kane and Eugene Mele, in Basic Sciences, for the discovery of topological insulators, a new class of materials with extraordinary electronic properties; Jeffrey Gordon, in Biomedicine, for revealing the importance of the gut microbial community to human health; Ivan Sutherland, in Information and Communication Technologies, for laying the foundations of intuitive and powerful human-computer interaction by pioneering the move from text-based to graphical interfaces; Anny Cazenave, John A. Church and Jonathan Gregory in Climate Change, for their contributions to detecting, understanding and projecting the response of global and regional sea level to man-made climate change; Gretchen Cara Daily and Georgina Mace, in Ecology and Conservation Biology, for documenting the decline in global biodiversity in the midst of and developing tools and policies to combat species loss; Claudia Goldin, in Economics, for her groundbreaking contributions to the historical analysis of the role of women in the economy that shed new light on the causes of gender inequality; Noam Chomsky, in Humanities and Social Sciences, for his unparalleled contributions to the study of language from both a scientific and humanistic perspective; and John Adams, in Music and Opera, for creating music genuinely of our time that communicates powerfully to a wide audience without loss of formal integrity or musical complexity.
Full details on the awards can be found at www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es
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