The
Dr. A.H. Heineken and
Dr. H.P. Heineken Prizes, named in honor of
Alfred HeinekenAlfred Henry Heineken was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam....
, former Chairman of
Heineken HoldingsHeineken is a 5% abv pale lager, made by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.3% alcohol by volume, in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H. Elion finished the development...
, and Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder
Gerard Adriaan HeinekenGerard Adriaan Heineken was the founder of Heineken. In 1864 he decided to purchase the brewery 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to brew a new beer....
, are a series of awards bestowed by the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands...
(KNAW).
Alfred Heineken founded the biennial Heineken Prizes in the 1960s. They consist of five science prizes: the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prizes for
HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
,
MedicineMedicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
,
Environmental scienceEnvironmental science is an interdisciplinary field that involves both the physical sciences and the social sciences . It encompasses the surrounding conditions that affect man and other organisms...
, and (since 2006)
Cognitive scienceCognitive science can be defined as the study of mind or the study of thought. It embraces multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and biology. It relies on varying scientific methodology Cognitive...
, and the Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for
BiochemistryBiochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
and
BiophysicsBiophysics is an interdisciplinary science that employs and develops theories and methods of the physical sciences for the investigation of biological systems . Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms...
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The
Dr. A.H. Heineken and
Dr. H.P. Heineken Prizes, named in honor of
Alfred HeinekenAlfred Henry Heineken was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam....
, former Chairman of
Heineken HoldingsHeineken is a 5% abv pale lager, made by Heineken International since 1873. It is available in a 4.3% alcohol by volume, in countries such as Ireland. It is the flagship product of the company and is made of purified water, malted barley, hops, and yeast. In 1886 H. Elion finished the development...
, and Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder
Gerard Adriaan HeinekenGerard Adriaan Heineken was the founder of Heineken. In 1864 he decided to purchase the brewery 'Den Hoyberg.' Here he started to brew a new beer....
, are a series of awards bestowed by the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands...
(KNAW).
History
Alfred Heineken founded the biennial Heineken Prizes in the 1960s. They consist of five science prizes: the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prizes for
HistoryHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
,
MedicineMedicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
,
Environmental scienceEnvironmental science is an interdisciplinary field that involves both the physical sciences and the social sciences . It encompasses the surrounding conditions that affect man and other organisms...
, and (since 2006)
Cognitive scienceCognitive science can be defined as the study of mind or the study of thought. It embraces multiple research disciplines, including psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and biology. It relies on varying scientific methodology Cognitive...
, and the Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for
BiochemistryBiochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules....
and
BiophysicsBiophysics is an interdisciplinary science that employs and develops theories and methods of the physical sciences for the investigation of biological systems . Studies included under the branches of biophysics span all levels of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms...
. The Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art has been awarded to Dutch artists since 1988. The scientific awards consist of a trophy and
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150,000, art awards come with 50,000
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Selection
The selection system of the Heineken Prizes can be compared to that of the Nobel Prizes. Scientists from all over the world are invited to nominate fellow scientists for the Heineken Prizes. Independent committees consisting of eminent scientists and chaired by a member of the board of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences select the winners. An independent jury of art historians acting in their personal capacity, chooses the winners of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art.
The Heineken Prizes are awarded in a Special Session of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which takes place every even year at the
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in Amsterdam. In 2002, 2004, and 2006 the Prizes were presented by HRH the Prince of Orange.
The prizes are sponsored by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation and the Dr. H.P. Heineken Foundation. The foundations are chaired by Mrs. Charlene L. de Carvalho-Heineken, daughter of the late Alfred Heineken.
Winners
The Heineken Prizes for Art and Sciences are now amongst the most prestigious international awards in the world. The following nine winners of the Heineken Prizes for Medicine and Biochemistry and Biophysics have since won Nobel Prizes:
- Christian de Duve
Christian René de Duve is an internationally acclaimed cytologist and biochemist. De Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, Great Britain, as a son of Belgian immigrants. They returned to Belgium in 1920...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1973
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
- Aaron Klug
Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1973
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1974
- Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech is a Nobel Laureate in chemistry.He grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1966, he entered Grinnell College where he obtained a B.A. in 1970. In 1975, Cech completed his Ph.D...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1988
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
- Paul C. Lauterbur
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...
- Dr. A.H.Heineken Prize for Medicine in 1989
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003
- Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, FRS is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases.Nurse's mother came from Norfolk...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 1996
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001
- Barry J. Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia...
- Dr. A.H.Heineken Prize for Medicine in 1998
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2005
- Eric R. Kandel
- Dr. A.H.Heineken Prize for Medicine in 2000
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000
- Andrew Z. Fire
Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and Professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2004
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
- Roger Y. Tsien
Roger Yonchien Tsien is an American biochemist and a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2002
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
- Jack W. Szostak
Jack William Szostak is a biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W...
- Dr. H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2008
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009