The latest edition of the Swiss research magazine Horizonte is out. It presents a wide selection of projects supported by the SNSF. The focal point of this edition is "use-inspired basic research". Horizonte is published in German and French.
The latest edition of the Swiss research magazine Horizonte is out. It presents a wide selection of projects supported by the SNSF. The focal point of this edition is "We are water". Horizonte is published in German and French.
The Swiss National Science Foundation this year celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) programme for the promotion of women in science. Not only has the MHV programme enabled scores of women to continue their research careers - it has also enormously enriched Swiss science as a whole. It may hence be regarded as a success story which the SNSF aims to continue, and to which a collection of portraits of successful former MHV grantees is a fitting tribute.
Since 2009, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) annually has awarded the Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) Prize. The prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements during an MHV subsidy. The winner of the 2011 prize is the classical philologist Dr Rebecca Lämmle. In her dissertation she explores the poetics of Greek satyr plays.
The latest edition of the Swiss research magazine Horizonte is out. It presents a wide selection of projects supported by the SNSF. The focal point of this edition is "Art and Research". Horizonte is published in German and French.
On 13 January, Marianne Sommer, who holds an SNSF-funded professorship at Zurich University’s Research Centre for Social and Economic History, will receive the National Latsis Prize 2010 at the Rathaus in Bern. The SNSF awarded the prize, which is worth 100,000 Swiss francs, on behalf of the Latsis Foundation for Som-mer’s interdisciplinary research on life sciences. The prize is one of Switzerland’s most prestigious and awarded to researchers of up to 40 years of age.
Using methods from the field of cultural studies, the Zurich-based science historian Marianne Sommer examines how the natural sciences go about explaining the history of man. There is growing public interest in such explanations, which delve deep into the body to tell us who we are and where we come from.
Stanislav Smirnov, Professor at the University of Geneva since 2003 and supported in part by the SNSF, has been awarded the Fields Medal during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians held at Hyderabad in India. One of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, the Fields Medal is awarded every four years to a maximum of four mathematicians under forty years old.
The Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize ceremony by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) will take place on 16 June 2010 at the University of Basel. This in presence of high-level persons as Mauro Dell’Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, Peter Meier-Abt, Vice rector for Research and Talent promotion University of Basel and Isabel Roditi, President Specialized Committee Individual Funding SNSF.
The SNSF is awarding the Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) prize annually since 2009. In doing so, the SNSF pays tribute to the outstanding achievements of women scientists during their MHV subsidy. The MHV prize winner 2010 is the astrophysicist, Dr. Isabelle-Cherchneff-Parrinello. She investigates the origin of dust in the early universe studying its chemical synthesis in primitive Supernovae.
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The SNSF awards its newly created Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) prize for the first time. In doing so, it pays tribute to the outstanding achievements of young women researchers during their MHV subsidy. The first prize winner is the oncologist, Dr. Viviane Hess.