The awards ceremony will be streamed live from this site on Tuesday 21 September at 18.45
Bilbao’s Euskalduna Conference Centre hosts the Gala Concert of the 12th and 13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Humanities
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Gerald Holton for articulating the cultural dimension of science and the liberating power of scientific rationality
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Music and Opera
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Peter Eötvös, “one of the most important musical voices of our time”
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Economics, Finance and Management
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Bernanke, Gertler, Kiyotaki and Moore for establishing the nature of the linkage between the financial sector and the real economy and how it operates to amplify crises
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
Basic Sciences
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel for developing new nanomaterials with applications in solar energy and cutting-edge electronics
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
In Information and Communication Technologies
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Hennessy and Patterson for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
In Ecology and Conservation Biology
The BBVA Foundation recognizes Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel and Mark Westoby for cataloguing plant traits and their functions in ecosystems worldwide
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
In Biology and Biomedicine
The BBVA Foundation recognizes David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for identifying the sensors that enable us to feel pain, temperature and pressure
13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
In Climate Change
The BBVA Foundation recognizes Adger, Burton and O’Brien for incorporating the social dimension to climate change science through the study of adaptation to unavoidable impacts
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
12th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards