The University of Groningen is experiencing a golden age. Both philosopher Lodi Nauta (49) as a physicist Bart van Wees (54) have a Spinoza prize won.
,, For ten years we did not fall in prices and now we face the winners of the last two years and the two winners now catching up, ” responds Rector Elmer Strong of the University. ,, The appearance of the Spinoza Prize is huge. It has something Nobel Menacing. It gives scientists the opportunity to realize their dreams. “
The Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. Prices were 22 years ago created by the NWO (Dutch Organization for Scientific Research) to give a boost internationally recognized researchers. Annually be awarded up to four contributions. The winners will spend 2.5 million euros on research at their option.
Groningen winners
The award is named after Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) , the internationally renowned Dutch scientist and according to the NWO a prime example of freedom of research.
the first Groningen researcher who won a Spinoza was a professor of science George Sawatzky in 1996. Four years later, Dirkje Postma, professor of pathophysiology of breathing. In 2004, professor of organic chemistry Ben Feringa won the award.
After that the price for ten years beyond the University. But in recent years the northern university again on the highest podium. First received migratory ecology professor Teunis Piersma and Cisca Wijmenga, professor of human genetics, the award. And now born and raised in Groningen Nauta, professor of history of philosophy and in Eastern Hogebrug resident Van Wees, professor of applied physics.
,, I am insanely proud of the University. It’s wonderful news ”, says Mieke Zaanen, general manager of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (Academy) in Amsterdam, the highest scientific institution of the country
Also read Spinoza winners:. Laudatory and honorably, with interviews with the two winners.
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