KNAW announces winners of the first Heineken Young Scientists Awards
29 Jul 2010
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has announced the winners of the Heineken Young Scientists Awards. This is the first year that the Academy is presenting these awards. The winners are Puck Knipscheer, Menno van Zelm, Remco Breuker, Appy Sluijs and Paola Escudero. Each of them will receive EUR 10,000 and a work of art designed especially for the awards.
The Heineken Young Scientists Awards are intended to give talent extra encouragement. "Science and scholarship depend on young researchers who jump in at the deep end and sometimes make the biggest discoveries," says Robbert Dijkgraaf, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"The idea of rewarding young researchers is entirely in keeping with the vision and aims of the Foundation," says Mrs Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, chairwoman of the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation, which makes the awards possible. "The awards emphasise the relevance of research to society and represent an important addition to the Heineken Prizes, which are among the most prestigious science awards in the world."
The winners of the Heineken Young Scientists Awards are active in the same fields of science and scholarship as the laureates of the Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prizes.