Dutch scientific award
2017 Prize Ceremony Spinoza Prize winners 2006: Jan Zaanen , Ben Scheres , Jozien Bensing and Carl Figdor. On the right is NWO-director Peter Nijkamp The Spinoza Prize (Dutch : Spinozapremie ) is an annual award of 1.5 million euro prize money, to be spent on new research given by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The award is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands . It is named after the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza .[1]
The prize is awarded to researchers in the Netherlands who belong to the best in their field.[2] Academics can nominate each other and an international commission evaluates the submissions. It is sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel Prize.[2]
List of winners The following persons have received the Spinoza Prize:[3]
1995 – Frank Grosveld , Ed van den Heuvel , Gerard 't Hooft , Frits van Oostrom 1996 – Johan van Benthem , Peter Nijkamp , George Sawatzky 1997 – Frits Kortlandt , Bob Pinedo, Rutger van Santen 1998 – Jan Hoeijmakers , Hendrik Lenstra , Pieter Muysken 1999 – Carlo Beenakker , René de Borst , Anne Cutler , Ronald Plasterk 2000 – Ewine van Dishoeck , Daan Frenkel , Dirkje Postma 2001 – Dorret Boomsma , Hans Clevers , Bert Meijer , Hans Oerlemans 2002 – Henk Barendregt , Els Goulmy , Ad Lagendijk , Frits Rosendaal 2003 – Lans Bovenberg , Cees Dekker , Robbert Dijkgraaf , Jan Luiten van Zanden 2004 – Jaap Sinninghe Damsté, Ben Feringa , Marinus van IJzendoorn , Michiel van der Klis 2005 – René Bernards , Peter Hagoort , Detlef Lohse , Lex Schrijver 2006 – Jozien Bensing , Carl Figdor, Ben Scheres , Jan Zaanen 2007 – Deirdre Curtin , Marcel Dicke , Leo Kouwenhoven , Wil Roebroeks 2008 – Marjo van der Knaap , Joep Leerssen , Theo Rasing , Willem de Vos 2009 – Albert van den Berg , Michel Ferrari , Marten Scheffer 2010 – Naomi Ellemers , Marijn Franx , Piet Gros , Ineke Sluiter 2011 – Heino Falcke , Patti Valkenburg , Erik Verlinde 2012 – Mike Jetten , Ieke Moerdijk , Annemarie Mol , Alexander Tielens 2013 – Mikhail Katsnelson , Piek Vossen , Bert Weckhuysen 2014 – Dirk Bouwmeester , Corinne Hofman , Mark van Loosdrecht , Theunis Piersma 2015 – René Janssen , Birgit Meyer , Aad van der Vaart , Cisca Wijmenga 2016 – Wilhelm Huck, Lodi Nauta, Mihai Netea , Bart van Wees[4] 2017 – Eveline Crone , Albert Heck , Michel Orrit , Alexander van Oudenaarden 2018 – Anna Akhmanova , Carsten de Dreu , Marileen Dogterom , John van der Oost 2019 – Bas van Bavel , Ronald Hanson , Amina Helmi , Yvette van Kooyk 2020 – Nynke Dekker , Jan van Hest , Pauline Kleingeld , Sjaak Neefjes 2021 – José van Dijck , Marc Koper, Lieven Vandersypen and Maria Yazdanbakhsh 2022 – Thea Hilhorst, Klaas Landsman, Corné Pieterse, Ignas Snellen 2023 - Joyeeta Gupta , Toby Kiers 2024 - Bernet Elzinga, Detlef van Vuuren
References ^ "Spinoza prize". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Retrieved 1 February 2023 . ^ a b "Spinozaprijs voor statisticus en chemicus" (in Dutch). NU.nl . 12 June 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2015 . ^ "Spinoza Laureates". nwo.nl . Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2014 . ^ "NWO Spinoza prize 2016". NWO . Retrieved 1 February 2023 .
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