Russian scientists have become laureates Kavli – of Polit.ru

Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters объявили scientific names of the winners of the Kavli Prize in 2014. Among the awardees included Academician Алексей A. Starobinskii , working at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Landau and Андрей Linda D. , now at Stanford University.

Kavli Prize was founded in 2007 by an American entrepreneur and philanthropist Fred Kavli Norwegian origin (Fred Kavli, 1927-2013). It is awarded every two years for research in three areas: astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Committees to select candidates in each of these sciences, composed of scientists of the Academy of Sciences of China, the French Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Society, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. Then the candidates selected by this committee, approved by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Alexei Starobinsky and Andrei Linde, shared the prize in astrophysics with the American researcher Alan Guth (Alan Harvey Guth). The award was given to scientists for creating inflationary universe model. This cosmological hypothesis, which has recently received significant evidence was devoted to one of the recent лекций project “Public Lectures of Polit.ru».

Prize in neuroscience got Brenda Milner (Brenda Milner) of the Canadian McGill University, John O’Keefe (John O’Keefe) from University College London and Marcus Reychl ( Marcus Raichle) from Washington University in St. Louis for the discovery of specialized networks of the brain associated with memory and cognitive abilities.

For achievement in the field of nanoscience prize awarded Thomas Ebbesen (Thomas Ebbesen) from the University of Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg and Stefan Hell (Stefan Hell) Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, the Max Planck Society and John Pendry (Sir John Pendry) from Imperial College in London. These scientists have found a way to produce images of objects smaller than 200 nanometers using visible light.

Awards laureates will be awarded to the King of Norway Harald V 9 September 2014 in Oslo. The laureates will receive gold medals, diplomas and cash prizes.