Advancing Basic Science for Humanity
2012 Prize Committees
Kavli Prize Committee Appointments
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three Kavli Prize Committees on the basis of nominations received by leading international academies and other equivalent scientific organizations. Nominations for the committees were provided by:
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- The French Academy of Sciences
- The Max Planck Society (Germany)
- The National Academy of Sciences (US)
- The Royal Society (UK)
Kavli Prize Committees
These distinguished panels of international scientists review and recommend the Kavli Prize recipients on the basis of the nomination process.The panels for 2012:
Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics
- Oddbjørn Engvold (Chair)
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway - Andrew Fabian
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom - Guinevière Kauffmann
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching, Germany - Claire Max
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California – United States - Joseph Silk
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience
- Arne Skjeltorp (Chair)
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway - Paul Alivisatos
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Livermore, California – United States - Evelyn Hu
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts – United States - Jianguo Hou
Hefei National Laboratory for the Physical Sciences
Anhui, China - Klaus Kern
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Stuttgart, Germany
Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience
- Jon Storm-Mathisen (Chair)
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway - Stanislas Dehaene
INSERM-CEA
Paris, France - Lily Jan
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, Calfornia –United States - Bert Sakmann
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Martinsried, Germany - Charles F. Stevens
Salk Institute
La Jolla, California – United States