Visions of knowledge: acceptance speeches of the laureates in the 14th Frontiers Awards
The ceremony of the 14th edition of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, held on 16 June in the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao, recognized 14 global leaders in scientific research and artistic creation. On this site we present the videos of the acceptance speeches of all laureates. Furthermore, in the web profile of each laureate in the 14th edition, acceptance speeches are available in both video and PDF text formats.
15 July, 2022
BASIC SCIENCES
Charles Fefferman: “I will always feel a special connection to Spain due to the privilege of advising and then collaborating with Spanish mathematicians who came to study with me in the U.S.”
Jean-François Le Gall: “My line of research is motivated by the physical theory known as quantum gravity, which aims at unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics”
BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Katalin Karikó: ” We hope to inspire the next generation of scientists with our work on RNA messenger therapeutics, which became the basis for anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines”
Drew Weissman: “We are now working on creating new mRNA vaccines to guard against a host of infectious diseases, like influenza, malaria, and HIV, and even a pan-coronavirus vaccine”
Robert Langer: “When we began to develop mRNA vaccines, many people in the scientific community said this would never work”
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Judea Pearl: “Artificial intelligence research has unlocked some basic secrets of reasoning, in both man and machine”
ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
Lenore Fahrig: “Every species on this planet is a masterpiece more valuable than the most valuable work of art”
Simon Levin: “There is no sustainable future for humanity if we are unable to maintain public goods and common-pool resources”
Steward Pickett: “We need to pursue an urban ecology that views cities through a lens of environmental justice”
CLIMATE CHANGE
Ellen Mosley-Thompson: “Earth’s climate system is experiencing changes to its stability as polar and alpine ice melts at unprecedented rates, raising global sea level”
Lonnie Thompson: “There is time for us to work together, nationally and internationally, to slow and ideally eliminate the global threat posed by climate change”
ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Matthew Jackson: “Once you study networks, you see their impact everywhere, and thus the study of networks, both from an economic perspective and in terms of economic impacts, is still expanding”
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Mark Granovetter: “It is my hope to bring together insights from all fields of the social sciences, in the search for the more comprehensive understanding of the human condition that we all seek”
MUSIC AND OPERA
Philip Glass: “The contribution that any artist makes is the work he or she creates. In my case, I made the work for myself, but when the audience sees it, it’s not mine anymore. It belongs to them”
