Heineken Prizes
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022
Remy Jungerman
connects the visual language of the Maroons with western modernism
Visual artist Remy Jungerman will be awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022. The jury praises the artist for the way he interweaves the cultures of the countries that define him: Suriname, the Netherlands, and the United States. By using geometric patterns and horizontals composed of panels varying of length, width, and colour, Jungerman creates a unique style and an extensive layering in his work. This form and connection of traditions offers the audience a new visual language that initiates a dialogue between disparate cultures.
More information can be found here
Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2020
Carolyn Bertozzi
developed a technique that enables immune cells to recognise cancer cells as dangerous and attack them
Carolyn Bertozzi, professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, Chemical & Systems Biology at Stanford University, will be awarded the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2022. The award honours Bertozzi’s ground-breaking research into communication between cells and methods of influencing this communication.
More information can be found here.
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2022
Vishva M. Dixit
provided mechanistic insight for new clinical treatments, including immunotherapy in cancer patients
Vishva M. Dixit, vice president of Early Discovery Research at Genentech, will be awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine 2022. The award honours his pioneering biomedical research on apoptosis, the process of programmed cell death, and necrosis, where cell death is caused by factors outside the cell such as infection or trauma. His discoveries have provided mechanistic insight for new clinical treatments, including immunotherapy in cancer patients.
More information can be found here.
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History 2022
Sunil Amrith
Amrith explains why water plays such an important role in the history of South and Southeast Asia
Sunil Amrith, professor of History at Yale University, will be awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History 2022. The award honours his search for the historical origins of the great inequality that exists between and within countries as well as the connection that he has identified to the impact of climate change.
More information can be found here.
Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences 2020
Corinne Le Quéré
shows impact of climate change on CO2 uptake in the oceans
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences 2020 to Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England).
Le Quéré is receiving the prize for her interdisciplinary research on the interaction between climate change and the carbon cycle.
More information can be found here.
C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2020
Robert Zatorre
sets the tone for scientific approach to music
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2020 to Robert Zatorre, Professor of Neuroscience at McGill University in Canada and researcher at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital). Zatorre is receiving the prize for his contribution to the discipline of music cognition. He studies how our nervous system ensures that we can make and enjoy music.
More information can be found here.
Heineken Young Scientists Awards
Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Medical/Biomedical Sciences 2020
Meta Roestenberg
Research on a malaria vaccine
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Medical/Biomedical Sciences 2020 to Meta Roestenberg (b. 1981), an internist-infectiologist at Leiden University Medical Centre. She is receiving the award for her research on the development of a malaria vaccine.
More information can be found here.
Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities 2020
Mark Dingemanse
Research on language
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities 2020 to Mark Dingemanse (b. 1983), a linguist at Radboud University Nijmegen. Dingemanse is receiving the award for his research into why languages are the way they are and how using language makes us human.
More information can be found here.
Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Natural Sciences 2020
Freddy Rabouw
Research on materials for light
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Natural Sciences 2020 to Freddy Rabouw (b. 1988), a physicist/chemist at Utrecht University. Rabouw is receiving the prize for his research on new materials to generate light, for example for solar cells or display screens.
More information can be found here.
Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Social Sciences 2020
Anna van Duijvenvoorde
Research on development of the brain
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Social Sciences 2020 to Anna van Duijvenvoorde (b. 1983), a developmental psychologist at Leiden University. Van Duijvenvoorde is receiving the award for her research on the development of the brain and behaviour in adolescents.
More information can be found here.