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Letter to AE and YAE members and guests from the President Marja Makarow#
October 2022#
Dear members of the Academia Europaea, members of the Young Academy and guest readers,#
I am looking forward to our 33rd “Building Bridges” annual member conference
in Barcelona in two week’s time (25-27 October). You can still register. I am particularly looking forward to welcoming many of the new members elected in the past two, difficult COVID limited years, into our community of scholars. You are joining a community of excellence with a global impact and span.
To highlight this, it is with great pleasure that I can send collective congratulations, to those Academia Europaea members who will be awarded the distinction of a Nobel Prize 2022. These awards are both singular honours and in a real way reflect the scientific and scholarly excellence that our Academy reflects. So, congratulations to the following members who now join the distinguished list of members of Academia Europaea that have received a Nobel prize in earlier years:
Alain Aspect (France) – elected to our academy in 2009 (Physics and Engineering Section), and Anton Zeilinger (Austria), elected in 2011 (Informatics Section) who receive the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be awarded to Svante Pääbo (Sweden) - elected to our Academy in 1998 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section).
However, members have also been recognised through other international awards:
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (Denmark) - elected in 2022 and Johannes Oerlemans (The Netherlands) - elected in 1989, have both won 2022 Balzan Prizes and are members of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences Section.
Hugo Duminil-Copin (France) - elected in 2019, James Maynard (UK) - elected in 2020 and Maryna Viazovska (Ukraine) - elected in 2021, have all been awarded a Fields medal this year. They are members of our Mathematics Section.
Also two members of the Mathematics Section, Noga Alon (elected 2008 - Israel) and Ehud Hrushovski (elected 2018 - Israel/UK) and Michael Perryman (elected 1998 - UK), member of the Earth and Cosmic Sciences Section, were awarded the Shaw Prize.
Katalin Karikó (Hungary) - elected in 2020 and a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Section, was awarded the 2022 Tang Prize.
The Academy will be there to help and support a member in pursuit of international prizes.#
Marja Makarow
Helsinki
October 2022
Past newsletters and statements#
- Newsletter May 2022
- Newsletter January 2022
- Interview with AE President, Professor Marja Makarow
- A Farewell from the President by Professor Sierd Cloetingh
- Valedictory Presidential Lecture
- A special collective spirit: Reflections on my time as President of Academia Europaea by Professor Sierd Cloetingh
- Newsletter August 2021
- Newsletter March 2021
- Newsletter December 2020
- Newsletter May 2020
- Newsletter March 2020
- Newsletter Winter 2019
- Newsletter August 2019
- Newsletter May-June 2019
- Newsletter January 2019
- Newsletter June 2018
- Newsletter March 2018
- Newletter December 2017
- Newletter October 2017
- Newsletter September 2017
- Newsletter May 2017
- Newsletter February 2017
- Newsletter December 2016
- Newsletter September 2016
- Newsletter July 2016
- Newsletter April 2016
- Newsletter January 2016
- Newsletter November 2015
- Newsletter July 2015
- Newsletter March 2015
- Newsletter December 2014
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 awarded to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, October 2014
- Post election statement, August 2014
