FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS

In the 2nd edition of the BBVA Foundation awards

Michael E. Fisher, 2009 Frontiers of Knowledge laureate in Basic Sciences, dies aged 90

Co-awardee with Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens

Nobel Prize in Economics for David Card, winner of the 7th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2014

In the Climate Change category

Nobel Prize in Physics for Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, Frontiers of Knowledge laureates in 2009 and 2016

For discovering the receptors for temperature and touch

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, 13th Frontiers of Knowledge laureates, win the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Recorded videos of all the awardees delivering their speeches

Visions of knowledge: acceptance speeches of laureates in the 12th and 13th Frontiers Awards

The Frontiers of Knowledge Awards champion knowledge as humanity’s best tool to confront global challenges like the environmental crisis and the tech revolution

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

Welcome reception for Frontiers of Knowledge awardees in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Preceded the day before by the gala concert in honor of laureates

The presentation ceremony of the 12th and 13th Frontiers of Knowledge Awards will take place on September 21 in Bilbao

12th Edition laureates 13th Edition laureates

Humanities

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Gerald Holton for articulating the cultural dimension of science and the liberating power of scientific rationality

Music and Opera

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Peter Eötvös, “one of the most important musical voices of our time”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Sciences

The BBVA Foundation recognizes psychologists Susan Fiske and Shelley Taylor, the pioneers of social cognition who revealed the role of cognitive bias in social relations

Music and Opera

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Arvo Pärt, creator of ‘tintinnabuli’, a new musical language centered on the voice and stripped of all accessory elements that has connected with a wide public

Economics, Finance and Management

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt for developing an economic growth theory based on the innovation that emerges from the process of creative destruction

Basic Sciences

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard and Peter Shor for their fundamental role in the development of quantum computation and cryptography

Information and Communications Technology

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik for work that has advanced the field of artificial intelligence by teaching machines the human skill of classifying data

Ecology and Conservation Biology

The BBVA Foundation recognizes ecologists Duarte, Hughes and Pauly for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of marine ecosystems and the challenges facing their conservation

Biology and Biomedicine

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Michael Hall and David Sabatini for discovering the mechanism that regulates cell growth, opening up new therapeutic approaches against cancer, diabetes and ageing

Climate Change

The BBVA Foundation recognizes Kerry Emanuel for detecting and predicting the intensification of hurricanes as a consequence of climate change