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Selecting the Kavli Prize Laureates
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has received nominations for the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience from all corners of the world. It is no longer possible to nominate candidates. The three prize committees have now started on the laborious selection process. The final committee meetings will take place in New York, Beijing and Berlin during spring. The prizewinners will be announced on the 31st of May 2012. In the picture: The astrophysics committee at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
(15.12.2011) Read moreKavli Lecture by Donald Eigler at Carnegie
Kavli Prize Laureate Donald Eigler presented his lecture titled "Atom Manipulation: New Perspectives in Nanoscience" at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC on 30 November. Dr. Eigler was the first person ever to move and control a single atom.
(15.12.2011) Read moreScholarships for science reporters
The World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) has established seven scholarships for journalists to travel to Oslo, Norway for the Kavli Prize events in September 2012. WFSJ has set up an international competition to select the winners. Applications should be emailed to WFSJ info@wfsj.org by Jan. 15, 2012. - The names of the winners will be announced at AAAS in Vancouver, Canada on the 17th of February, says Jean-Marc Fleury, executive director of WFSJ.
(15.12.2011) Read moreKavli Prize Week 2012: Celebrating excellence in science
The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics, Nanoscience and Neuroscience will be awarded for the third time in Oslo, Norway in September 2012. His Majesty King Harald will present the prizes to the Laureates at an award ceremony in Oslo Concert Hall on the 4th of September. This will be a gala performance that unites science and culture in an event including a broad range of musical expressions, featuring young artists who have shown their excellence in music. Kerson Leong (picture) was one of the artists at the 2010 award ceremony.
(15.08.2011) Read morePresident Obama Meets U.S. Laureates of 2010 Kavli Prizes
June 6th at the White House, President Barack Obama met in the Oval Office with the seven U.S. recipients of the 2010 Kavli Prizes to recognize and honor their seminal contributions to the three fields for which the Prizes are awarded - astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
(07.06.2011) Read moreNews Archive
Auto-biographies of The Kavli Prize Laureates
Who ate a quarter pound of butter and a quart of soft ice cream, enabling him to fail physical and avoid getting drafted for the Vietnam War?
Who lived at an observatory on the savanna in the fifties, watching out for leopards as well as stars?
The Kavli Prize Week 2010
The Award Ceremony
The Kavli Prize Science Forum
Broadcast from the Award Ceremony
Watch the broadcast from the 2010 Award Ceremony in Oslo here
The Award Ceremony from Oslo Concert Hall was broadcasted live September 7, 2010.
The Kavli Prize 2010 announcement
The webcast from the Kavli Prize 2010 announcement and the following debate can be viewed below.
Watch the broadcast from Oslo
The Kavli Prize 2010 announcement from The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo was broadcasted live 2.50pm CEST / 8:50 EDT, June 3.
Watch the broadcast from World Science Festival
The Kavli Prize 2010 program from the World Science Festival in New York was broadcasted live 2.30pm CEST / 8:30pm EDT, June 3.
The moderators Elizabeth Vargas and Jim Al-Khalili
