Kavli Prize should not be confused with Kavli Medal.
| The Kavli Prize | |
| Awarded For: | outstanding contributions in Astrophysics, Nanoscience, and Neuroscience. |
| Country: | Norway |
| Reward: | A gold medal, a scroll, and a monetary award of 1,000,000 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Holder Label: | Number of laureates |
| Holder: | 21 prizes to 54 laureates |
| Website: | http://www.kavliprize.no |
The Kavli Prize was established in 2005 as a joint venture of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Kavli Foundation. It honors, supports, and recognizes scientists for outstanding work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Three prizes are awarded every second year. Each of the three Kavli Prizes consists of a gold medal, a scroll, and a cash award of US$1,000,000. The medal has a diameter of 70mm, a thickness of 5mm, and weighs 311g.[1] [2]
The first Kavli Prizes were awarded on 9 September 2008 in Oslo, presented by Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three prize committees consisting of leading international scientists after receiving recommendations made from the following organisations:
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Country | Citation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Maarten Schmidt | California Institute of Technology |  | "for their seminal contributions to understanding the nature of quasars" | |
| Donald Lynden-Bell | Cambridge University | ||||
| 2010 | Jerry E. Nelson | Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz |  | "for their contributions to the development of giant telescopes" | |
| Raymond N. Wilson | European Southern Observatory, Garching | ||||
| James Roger Angel | Steward Observatory, University of Arizona | | |||
| 2012 | David C. Jewitt | University of California Los Angeles | | "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system" | |
| Jane X. Luu | Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |||
| Michael E. Brown | California Institute of Technology | | |||
| 2014 | Alan H. Guth | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation" | |
| Andrei D. Linde | Stanford University | | |||
| Alexei A. Starobinsky | |||||
| 2016 | Ronald W.P. Drever | California Institute of Technology | "for the direct detection of gravitational waves"[3] | ||
| Kip S. Thorne | California Institute of Technology | | |||
| Rainer Weiss | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |||
| 2018 | Ewine van Dishoeck | Leiden University | | "for her combined contributions to observational, theoretical, and laboratory astrochemistry, elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets"[4] [5] | |
| 2020 | Andrew Fabian | University of Cambridge | "for his groundbreaking research in the field of observational X-ray astronomy, covering a wide range of topics from gas flows in clusters of galaxies to supermassive black holes at the heart of galaxies"[6] | ||
| 2022 | Roger Ulrich | University of California, Los Angeles | | "for their pioneering work and leadership in the development of helio- and asteroseismology" | |
| Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard | Aarhus University |  | |||
| Conny Aerts | KU Leuven |  | |||
| 2024 | Sara Seager | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  | "for their ground-breaking work on the discovery and characterization of extra-solar planets and their atmospheres" | |
| David Charbonneau | Harvard University | | |||
| Year | Laureate | Institution | Country | Citation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Louis E. Brus | Columbia University | | "for their large impact in the development of the nanoscience field of the zero and one dimensional nanostructures in physics, chemistry and biology" | |
| Sumio Iijima | Meijo University |  | |||
| 2010 | Donald Eigler | IBM Almaden Research Center | | "for their development of unprecedented methods to control matter on the nanoscale" | |
| Nadrian C. Seeman | New York University | | |||
| 2012 | Mildred S. Dresselhaus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | "for her pioneering contributions to the study of phonons, electron-phonon interactions, and thermal transport in nanostructures" | |
| 2014 | Thomas W. Ebbesen | University of Strasbourg |   | "for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging" | |
| Stefan W. Hell | Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry | ||||
| John B. Pendry | |||||
| 2016 | Gerd Binnig | IBM Zurich Research Laboratory | "for the invention and realization of atomic force microscopy, a breakthrough in measurement technology and nanosculpting that continues to have a transformative impact on nanoscience and technology"[7] | ||
| Christoph Gerber | University of Basel | ||||
| Calvin Quate | Stanford University | | |||
| 2018 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology | | "for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine"[8] | |
| Jennifer Doudna | University of California, Berkeley | | |||
| Virginijus Šikšnys | Vilnius University |  | |||
| 2020 | Harald Rose | Universität Ulm | "for sub-ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams"[9] | ||
| Maximilian Haider | CEOS GmbH |  | |||
| Knut Urban | Forschungszentrum Jülich | ||||
| Ondrej Krivanek | Nion Co |  | |||
| 2022 | Jacob Sagiv | Weizmann Institute of Science |  | "for Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) on solid substrates; molecular coatings to control surface properties" | |
| Ralph Nuzzo | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | | |||
| David Allara | Pennsylvania State University | | |||
| George M. Whitesides | Harvard University | | |||
| 2024 | Robert S. Langer | Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | "for pioneering work integrating synthetic nanoscale materials with biological function for biomedical applications" | |
| Armand Paul Alivisatos | University of Chicago | | |||
| Chad A. Mirkin | Northwestern University | |
