Ukrainian-born American businessman Leonid Blavatnik has established a scientific prize named after himself. The annual award will be given to three American scientists and $ 250 million
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cash prizes, awarded annually in the world for scientific achievement, added another. In the United States announced the establishment Leonid Blavatnik , an American entrepreneur billionaire of Soviet origin, the new premium in the amount of $ 250 million (7.5 million rubles).
Every year this award, which is the “identify and support the most promising American scientists under the age of 42 years”, will be awarded to three scientists for achievements in physics and engineering, chemistry and life sciences.
Founder Award will have two. This is a family foundation Blavatnik Family Foundation, a businessman who donates money to American education and the Jewish community, and the New York Academy of Sciences – a scientific non-profit organization. “Unlike the premiums intended venerable scholar, Blavatnik Award aims to support those scientists who are young and could benefit from early recognition” – said Torsten Wiesel, honorary chairman of the Academy.
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«The Nobel Prize is approximately $ 1 million I think that $ 250 million – is enough to make the award is really interesting, and not so much as to be unimaginable. In a world of many awards for established scholars, but I do not think that young scientists receive adequate systematic support – told Blavatnik. – Our purpose – to glorify the most distinguished American scholars, to celebrate their achievements to inspire a new generation of researchers. Blavatnik Foundation intends to support pioneering work in science and technology that solve the most important global problems ».
out charitable activity on a national scale Blavatnik became possible after the success of his regional award, established in 2007 for young scientists of the three states – New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The winners of this award, claimed by and mathematics, paid $ 30 million
«We kind of run-in prize at the regional level and have collected an incredible pool of talent. We’re going to keep those premiums, but the amount of $ 250 thousand will bring them to another level, “- added Blavatnik.
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Nominate Candidates for the award will Blavatnik about three hundred leading U.S. universities, independent research centers, established scientists, Nobel laureates and winners of previous awards Blavatnik.
Evaluate the bids will be a special jury, which will include the 60 most prominent American scientists. They will select the winners on criteria such as quality, innovation and scientific impact of the work done.
Applications for the first awards will be accepted from October to December 2013. Announcement of the winners of the national award will take place in September 2014. “Len (Leonid) is a businessman through and through, he created the predecessor of this award in three states, and looking at many of the winners, we can say that it is a success!” – Says Ellis Rubinstein, head of the New York Academy of Sciences, according to which, the purpose of premiums – to create a “superstar in Science».
Blavatnik, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1978, is the founder of the investment company Access Industries. The company is building a business on three areas: mining, media market and real estate. In May the “Times” reported that billionaire intends to acquire 30% stake in the Russian group “The Messenger» , the deal could reach $ 200 million state businessman is estimated at more than $ 16 billion, up 2013 Access Industries in consortium AAR was among the Russian shareholders of TNK-BP, which was sold to “Rosneft».
last few years Blavatnik significantly increased its spending on charity.
In 2013, his fund transferred $ 50 million to Harvard University to develop entrepreneurial programs in the field of life science, and three years ago, has allocated $ 114 to Oxford University to create a School of Management.
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Blavatnik Award in size would be on par with largest scientific prizes of the world . To date, the largest scientific award – this award on fundamental physics is the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, co-owner of Mail.Ru Group and the investment fund DST, which is $ 3 million has the same size and prize, established by Yuri Milner together with the founders of Google and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, who will be awarded for breakthroughs in medicine. In addition to these awards, the Foundation Yuri Milner gives awards to young scientists, the amount of which is $ 300 million – $ 50 million more than the new premium Blavatnik.
most famous and status, the Nobel Prize is approximately $ 1.4 billion, Shaw Prize, the Kavli and the Abel Prize – a million dollars. The size of the RF State Prize for achievements in the field of science and technology is 5,000,000 rubles, a presidential award for young scientists – 2.5 million
«It’s a good event that is important for young scientists and science in general.
American scientists – Alexander Kabanov, the winner of “megagranta” from the Moscow State University, co-director of the Institute for Nanomedicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. – It would be very nice if Abramovich, Prokhorov, Vekselberg, Han or anyone else on this list would have established a prize for young scientists, which could get not only Russian, but any young scientists. But, first, that the award would be issued in Russia, for example, in Moscow. Second, the experts were international, Nobel Prize winners, including really large Russian scientists. And to be judged by the “Hamburg account” and gave a large sum. This, in my opinion, would be attracted attention to the work of our scientists, giving them the opportunity to test themselves on the world stage and at the same time be seen. As for the Tchaikovsky Competition. Van Cliburn wins – we applaud the American genius to win your own – will be proud of her.
I hope the pain and think about the fate of young scientists from 30 to 40 in Russia.
with pain because they are in a difficult situation – I have already talked about it, destroyed generations of scientific communication, there is no agreement between the different members of the Russian scientific community. All this creates an unfavorable psychological situation, a bad effect on the results.
With hope, because he returned to Russia because of megagrantu, I realized that in the 2000s has grown group of talented young scientists who understand how to do science by world standards. Now the critical time – the talented Russian youth should be supported. Support now, not later, when it will be left ».
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