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

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