BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento, in Spanish, are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards respond to the knowledge map of the present age. As well as the fundamental knowledge that is at their core, they address developments in information and communication technologies, and interactions between biology and medicine, ecology and conservation biology, climate change, economics, humanities and social sciences, and, finally, contemporary musical creation and performance. Specific categories are reserved for developing knowledge fields of critical relevance to confront central challenges of the 21st century, as in the case of the two environmental awards.

The awards were established in 2008, with the first set of winners receiving their prizes in 2009. – belonging to financial group BBVA – is partnered in the scheme by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country’s premier public research organization.

As many as eleven winners of BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. They are: Robert J. Lefkowitz, 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Biomedicine and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012; Shinya Yamanaka, 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Biomedicine and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2012; Lars Peter Hansen, 2010 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Economics, Finance and Management, and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economics; Jean Tirole, 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Economics, Finance and Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2014; Angus Deaton, 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Economics, Finance and Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2015; Robert Wilson, 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Economics, Finance and Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2020; James P. Allison, 2017 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Biomedicine and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018; William D. Nordhaus, 2017 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Climate Change and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2018; Paul Milgrom, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in Economics, Finance and Management and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2020; David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, 2020 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureates in Biomedicine and winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2021.[1][2][3]

Categories[]

There are eight award categories: basic science, biology and biomedicine, climate change, ecology and conservation biology, information and communications technologies, economics, finance and management, music and opera, humanities and social sciences (a new category in the 11th edition). Previously, in the first 10 editions, there was a category in development cooperation.

Juries[]

Eight juries, one for each category, analyze the nominations put forward by international academic and research institutions.[4][5] To reach their decision, the juries meet during January and February in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation. The day after the jury’s decision, the name of the winners(s) and the achievements that earned them the award are revealed at an announcement event in the same location.

Ceremony

The awards are presented in June each year at a ceremony held, from the 11th edition, in the Euskalduna Palace at Bilbao, in the Basque Country.[6][7][8][9]

BBVA Foundation[]

The BBVA Foundation engages in the promotion of research, advanced training and the transmission of knowledge to society, focusing on the emerging issues of the 21st century in five areas: Environment, Biomedicine and Health, Economy and Society, Basic Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Humanities. The BBVA Foundation designs, develops and finances research projects in these areas; facilitates advanced specialist training through grants, courses, seminars and workshops; organizes award schemes for researchers and professionals whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge; and communicates and disseminates such new knowledge through publications, databases, lecture series, debates, exhibitions and audiovisual and electronic media.[10][11]

Prizes[]

Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative artwork, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per category. Awards may not be granted posthumously, and when an award is shared, its monetary amount is divided equally among the recipients.

The commemorative artwork is created by Madrid sculptor Blanca Muñoz, B.A. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Holder of scholarships at Calcografia Nazionale (1989), awarded by the Italian Government, at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (1990), and in Mexico City (1992), awarded by the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs, her numerous distinctions include the 1999 National Print Prize.

Laureates[]

Year Laureate Nationality Category Nobel Prize
2008 Ignacio Cirac
Peter Zoller 		 Spain
 Austria 		Basic Sciences
2008 Joan Massagué  Spain Biomedicine
2008 Thomas Lovejoy
William Laurance 		 United States
 United States 		Ecology and Conservation Biology
2008 Jacob Ziv  Israel Information and Communication Technologies
2008 Jean Tirole  France Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2014
2008 Steven Holl  United States Arts
2008 Wallace S. Broecker  United States Climate Change
2008 Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab  United States Development Cooperation
2009 Richard Zare
Michael Fisher 		 United States
 United Kingdom 		Basic Sciences
2009 Robert Lefkowitz  United States Biomedicine Chemistry 2012
2009  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2009 Thomas Kailath  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2009 Andreu Mas-Colell
Hugo F. Sonnenschein 		 Spain
 United States 		Economics, Finance and Management
2009 Cristóbal Halffter  Spain Contemporary Music
2009 Klaus Hasselmann  Germany Climate Change Physics 2021
2009 Development Research Institute  United States Development Cooperation
2010 Gabor A. Somorjai  United States Basic Sciences
2010 Shinya Yamanaka  Japan Biomedicine Physiology 2012
2010 Edward Osborne Wilson  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2010 Donald Knuth  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2010 Lars Peter Hansen  United States Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2013
2010 Helmut Lachenmann  Germany Contemporary Music
2010 Nicholas Stern  United Kingdom Climate Change
2010 International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)  Finland Development Cooperation
2011 Michel Mayor   Switzerland Basic Sciences Physics 2019
2011 Didier Queloz   Switzerland Basic Sciences Physics 2019
2011 Alexander Varshavsky  United States Biomedicine
2011 Daniel H. Janzen  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2011 Carver Mead  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2011 Angus Deaton  United Kingdom Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2015
2011 Salvatore Sciarrino  Italy Contemporary Music
2011 Isaac Held  United States Climate Change
2011 Ciro de Quadros  Brazil Development Cooperation
2012 Ingrid Daubechies[12]  Belgium Basic Sciences
2012 David Mumford[13]  United Kingdom Basic Sciences
2012 Douglas Coleman[14]  Canada Biomedicine
2012 Jeffrey Friedman[15]  United States Biomedicine
2012 Jane Lubchenco[16]  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2012 Lotfi A. Zadeh[17]  Azerbaijan Information and Communication Technologies
2012 Paul Milgrom[18]  United States Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2020
2012 Pierre Boulez[19]  France Contemporary Music
2012 Susan Solomon[20]  United States Climate Change
2012 DNDi[21]   Switzerland Development Cooperation
2013 Maximilian Haider[22]  Austria Basic Sciences
2013 Harald Rose[23]  Germany Basic Sciences
2013 Knut Urban[24]  Germany Basic Sciences
2013 Adrian Bird[25]  United Kingdom Biomedicine
2013 Paul R. Ehrlich[26]  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2013 Marvin Minsky[27]  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2013 Elhanan Helpman[28]  Israel Economics, Finance and Management
2013 Steve Reich[29]  United States Contemporary Music
2013 Christopher Field[30]  United States Climate Change
2013 Pratham[31]  India Development Cooperation
2014 Stephen Buchwald[32]  United States Basic Sciences
2014 Joseph Schlessinger[33]  United States Biomedicine
2014 Charles Sawyers[34]  United States Biomedicine
2014 Tony Hunter[35]  United Kingdom Biomedicine
2014 David Tilman[36]  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2014 Leonard Kleinrock[37]  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2014 Richard Blundell  United Kingdom Economics, Finance and Management
2014 David Card  Canada Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2021
2014 György Kurtág[38]  Hungary Contemporary Music
2014 Richard Alley[39]  United States Climate Change
2014 Helen Keller International  United States Development Cooperation
2015 Stephen Hawking  United Kingdom Basic Sciences
2015 Viatcheslav Mukhanov  Germany Basic Sciences
2015 Edward Boyden  United States Biomedicine
2015 Karl Deisseroth  United States Biomedicine
2015 Gero Miesenböck  Austria Biomedicine
2015 Ilkka Hanski  Finland Ecology and Conservation Biology
2015 Stephen Cook  Canada Information and Communication Technologies
2015 Robert Wilson  United States Economics, Finance and Management Economic Sciences 2020
2015 Georges Aperghis  Greece Contemporary Music
2015 Veerabhadran Ramanathan  India Climate Change
2015 Martin Ravallion  Australia Development Cooperation
2016 David Cox  United Kingdom Basic Sciences
2016 Bradley Efron  United States Basic Sciences
2016 Emmanuelle Charpentier  France Biomedicine Chemistry 2020
2016 Jennifer Doudna  United States Biomedicine Chemistry 2020
2016 Francisco Mojica  Spain Biomedicine
2016 Gene E. Likens  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2016 Marten Scheffer  Netherlands Ecology and Conservation Biology
2016 Geoffrey Hinton  United Kingdom Information and Communication Technologies
2016 Daron Acemoglu  Turkey /  United States Economics, Finance and Management
2016 Sofia Gubaidulina  Russia Contemporary Music
2016 James Hansen  United States Climate Change
2016 Syukuro Manabe  Japan /  United States Climate Change Physics 2021
2017 Omar M. Yaghi  Jordan /  United States Basic Sciences
2017 James P. Allison  United States Biomedicine Medicine 2018
2017 Rosemary Grant  United Kingdom Ecology and Conservation Biology
2017 Peter Grant  United Kingdom Ecology and Conservation Biology
2017 Shafi Goldwasser  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2017 Silvio Micali  Italy Information and Communication Technologies
2017 Ronald Rivest  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2017 Adi Shamir  Israel Information and Communication Technologies
2017 Robert Porter  Canada Economics Finance and Management
2017 Ariel Pakes  Canada /  United States Economics Finance and Management
2017 Timothy Bresnahan  United States Economics Finance and Management
2017 Kaija Saariaho  Finland Contemporary Music
2017 William Nordhaus  United States Climate Change Economic Sciences 2018
2017 Nubia Muñoz  Colombia Development Cooperation
2018 Charles L. Kane[40]  United States Basic Sciences
2018 Eugene J. Mele[41]  United States Basic Sciences
2018 Jeffrey I. Gordon[42][43]  United States Biology and Biomedicine
2018 Anny Cazenave[44]  France Climate Change
2018 John A. Church[45]  Australia Climate Change
2018 Jonathan M. Gregory[46]  United Kingdom Climate Change
2018 Gretchen Daily[47]  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2018 Georgina Mace[48]  United Kingdom Ecology and Conservation Biology
2018 Ivan Sutherland[49]  United States Information and Communication Technologies
2018 Claudia Goldin[50]  United States Economics, Finance and Management
2018 Noam Chomsky[51]  United States Humanities and Social Sciences
2018 John Adams[52]  United States Music and Opera
2019 Kerry A. Emanuel  United States Climate Change
2019 Daniel Pauly  Canada Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019 Terence Hughes  Ireland /  Australia Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019 Carlos M. Duarte  Spain Ecology and Conservation Biology
2019 Michael N. Hall  United States /   Switzerland Biology and Biomedicine
2019 David M. Sabatini  United States Biology and Biomedicine
2019 Isabelle Guyon  France Information and Communications Technology
2019 Bernhard Schölkopf  Germany Information and Communications Technology
2019 Vladimir Vapnik  Russia /  United States Information and Communications Technology
2019 Charles H. Bennett  United States Basic Sciences
2019 Gilles Brassard  Canada Basic Sciences
2019 Peter Shor  United States Basic Sciences
2019 Philippe Aghion  France Economics, Finance and Management
2019 Peter W. Howitt  Canada Economics, Finance and Management
2019 Arvo Pärt  Estonia Music and Opera
2019 Susan Fiske  United States Social Cognition
2019 Shelley E. Taylor  United States Social Cognition
2020 Neil Adger[53]  United Kingdom Climate Change
2020  United Kingdom Climate Change
2020 Karen O’Brien  United States Climate Change
2020 David Julius  United States Biology and Biomedicine Medicine 2021
2020 Ardem Patapoutian  Lebanon /  United States Biology and Biomedicine Medicine 2021
2020 Sandra Díaz  Argentina Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020 Sandra Lavorel  France Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020 Mark Westoby  Australia Ecology and Conservation Biology
2020 John L. Hennessy  United States Information and Communications Technology
2020 David A. Patterson  United States Information and Communications Technology
2020 Paul Alivisatos  United States Basic Sciences
2020 Michael Grätzel   Switzerland Basic Sciences
2020 Ben Bernanke  United States Economics, Finance and Management
2020 Mark Gertler  United States Economics, Finance and Management
2020 Nobuhiro Kiyotaki  Japan Economics, Finance and Management
2020 John Moore  United Kingdom Economics, Finance and Management
2021 Lonnie G. Thompson  United States Climate Change
2021 Ellen Mosley-Thompson  United States Climate Change
2021 Katalin Kariko  Hungary Biology and Biomedicine
2021 Drew Weissman  United States Biology and Biomedicine
2021 Robert S. Langer  United States Biology and Biomedicine
2021 Lenore Fahrig  Canada Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021 Simon Levin  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021  United States Ecology and Conservation Biology
2021 Judea Pearl  Israel /  United States Information and Communications Technology
2021 Charles Fefferman  United States Basic Sciences
2021 Jean-François Le Gall  France Basic Sciences
2021 Matthew O. Jackson  United States Economics, Finance and Management

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