Scientific prizes and awards / General

Academy Professor Prize

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Description

The Academy awards the Academy Professor Prize to researchers between 54 and 59 years of age for exceptional achievement throughout the course of their careers. The Prize is intended as a lifetime achievement award.

The Academy confers two separate prizes a year, each worth EUR 1 million. One prize is awarded to a researcher in the social sciences or humanities, and the other to a researcher in the natural, technical or life sciences. The money must be used to fund scientific or scholarly research.

Recipients

2010: Professors: Liesbeth de Vries, Eric Bergshoeff, Michiel van der Klis and Joep Leerssen.