Call for Nominations Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2006

Nominations are now being accepted for the prestigious Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2006. This biennial award of USD 150,000, established in 2005, is intended to encourage outstanding achievements in de field of cognitive science. The award will be awarded to an individual who has made a major transdisciplinary contribution to the knowledge and insight concerning the mechanisms and processes underlying the intelligent functioning of humans and animals.

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) selects the winner of the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science on the basis of nominations received from both institutes and individual researchers. The deadline for nomination is:

1 January 2006

The Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science is one of a series of prizes. The other prizes are:

• the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics
• the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine
• the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History
• the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences

Previous winners have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and many other major distinctions, clearly affirming the high standards of the Heineken Prizes. They include 2005 Nobel Prize winner Barry Marshall, Christian de Duve, Aaron Klug, Thomas Cech, Paul C. Lauterbur, Paul Nurse and Eric R. Kandel.

The Heineken Prizes are awarded by the Dr H.P. Heineken Foundation and the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.

More information
For detailed information and nomination forms, please visit our website. Our website also contains documentation, banners and ads concerning the Heineken Prizes 2006 that can be used for editorial purposes.

Please direct any enquiries to:
Madelon de Ruiter, Communications Department
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Tel. + 31 (0)20-5510820/769
heinekenprizes@bureau.knaw.nl
http://www.knaw.nl/heinekenprizes/

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