The winners of the Heineken Prizes will receive their prize on Thursday 1 October 2020.įor more information relating to the Heineken Young Scientists Awards, please contact:įor visuals relating to the Heineken Young Scientists Awards, click here. The Heineken Young Scientists Awards are among the ten prizes making up the biennial Heineken Prizes for Science and the Arts.

Each prize comprises a monetary award of EUR 10,000 (funded by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation) and an artwork. This year, it was chaired by Carl Figdor, an Academy member and professor of immunology at Radboud University Nijmegen. The jury consists of Academy members and members or alumni of The Young Academy. The winners of the Heineken Young Scientists Awards are selected from four research domains: Medical/Biomedical Sciences, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. For example, her research on how young people learn can help understand the impact of online education during the corona crisis.Ībout the Heineken Young Scientists Awards Her work involves fundamental research but can have important social applications. 1983) is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in the Social Sciences for her research on the development of the brain and behaviour in adolescents. For example, semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as “quantum dots”, are used in the latest generation of televisions.Īnna van Duijvenvoorde, developmental psychologist at Leiden UniversityĪnna van Duijvenvoorde (b. This is fundamental research, but with various applications. What he is attempting to understand is how such a nanocrystal can efficiently convert one colour of light into another. The materials he studies are mainly nanocrystals of only a few thousand atoms in size. 1988) is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in the Natural Sciences for his research on new materials to generate light, for example for solar cells or display screens. Dingemanse’s research can contribute to this.įreddy Rabouw, physicist/chemist at Utrecht Universityįreddy Rabouw (b. For this to run smoothly, we need to know more about the structure of conversations, and preferably about their universal structure, i.e. not just limited to a few European languages. We are talking more and more to devices, such as the iPhone’s Siri and Google Home. His research is primarily fundamental but is also relevant to all kinds of social developments. 1983) is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in the Humanities for his research into why languages are the way they are and how using language makes us human. Mark Dingemanse, linguist at Radboud University Nijmegen The candidate vaccine developed by Dr Roestenberg and her colleagues is the first genetically modified vaccine in the world. With some 228 million cases and more than 400,000 deaths each year, malaria is one of the world’s most serious infectious diseases, affecting young children in particular. 1981) is receiving the Heineken Young Scientists Award 2020 in the Medical/Biomedical Sciences for her research on the development of a malaria vaccine. This section provides you information about the life and works of famous linguists.Meta Roestenberg, internist-infectiologist at Leiden University Medical Centre Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig is another woman linguist who had conducted extensive research on second-language temporality and tense-mood-aspect systems and interlanguage pragmatics. Among the prominent ladies in the field, Alexandra Yurievna Aikhenvald is one who stands out owing to her specialization in Linguistic typology and the Arawak language family. While Chomsky made pivotal contributions to generative grammar, Halliday worked on systemic functional linguistics and also modern psycholinguistics. The discipline of linguistics was further enriched in the late 20th century by the emergence of the likes of Noam Chomsky, William Labov, and Michael Halliday. Czech literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theorist Jan Mukařovský and Russian–American linguist and literary theorist Roman Osipovich Jakobson are both considered pioneers of the structural analysis of language. Swiss linguist and semiotician Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure who laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiology in the 20th century is considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics. Modern linguistics as a field began to develop in the 18th century. Linguists study, describe and explain the human faculty of language.

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