Awards
SCNAT awards prizes for the promotion of early career scientists and for the successful communication of scientific content.
Awards by SCNAT
Prix de Quervain for Polar and High Altitude Research is attributed to young scientists for outstanding achievements in their Master or PhD thesis or other research projects. The Prix de Quervain is announced annually, and funded by the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research (SKPH), the Commission for the for Research Station on Jungfraujoch (SKJF) and the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research.
Awards by member organisations
The body's own defence against urinary tract infections, a new method for quantifying and determining genetic damage, evidence in so-called Diophantine geometry and the question of how soot from combustion processes influences the formation of clouds and thus, the climate – the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is awarding the Prix Schläfli 2021 to the four most important insights of young researchers at Swiss universities. Claudia Aloisi (Chemistry), Gabriel Dill (Mathematics), Fabian Mahrt (Geosciences) and Gregor Weiss (Biology) receive the prize for findings in their dissertations. The Prix Schläfli is awarded annually to the four best dissertations in the natural sciences. This prize was first awarded as early as 1866.
Image: M. Feldmüller, G. J. Crescenzo, ETH Zürich / N. Pitaro, M. Bosshard
Nach der Annullierung des Prix Expo 2020 wegen der Corona-Krise hat die SCNAT beschlossen, in diesen schwierigen Zeiten den Museen gegenüber ein Zeichen der Ermutigung zu setzen.
Junge Medienschaffende oder Studierende setzen ein Projekt im Bereich Wissenschaftsjournalismus um: Spannende Artikel, kreative Videobeiträge oder interaktive Webprojekte – der Kreativität sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Die Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz haben die Umsetzung der drei besten Ideen mit je 3000 Franken unterstützt. Ein Public-Voting kürt nun den Publikumsliebling als Newcomer.
Image: Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
Die SCNAT sieht sich leider gezwungen, die Ausschreibung des Prix Expo 2020 abzusagen.
Image: Studio KO Yverdon
Vier junge Forschende aus der Schweiz Franck Le Vaillant, Oliver Müller, Robert Pollice und Sabine Studer wurden auserkoren am international prestigeträchtigen 70. Lindauer Treffen der NobelpreisträgerInnen Ende Juni teilzunehmen. Die Akademie der Naturwissenschaft (SCNAT) nominiert jährlich geeignete Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten aus den jungen Forschenden, die für den Prix Schläfli nominiert worden sind.
Das Naturmuseum St. Gallen und das Naturhistorische Museum Freiburg erhalten den Prix Expo 2019
The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to physics just ended. We had a great week of vivid discussions between 39 Nobel Laureates and 580 young scientists from 89 countries most of them Physicists but not only.
The Prix Schläfli, one of the longest-running science prizes in Switzerland (since 1866), is awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) to young scientists for excellent articles resulting from PhDs in each of the following natural science disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences and Astronomy.
The storage of radioactive waste, the pollination of plants, the use of solar energy, and the mathematical parsing of knots and surfaces – the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) will honour the four most important discoveries and solutions by young researchers at Swiss universities with the Prix Schläfli 2018 in Bern on 25 May. Alexandre Bagnoud (Geosciences), Livio Liechti (Mathematics), Hester Sheehan (Biology) and Xiaojiang Xie (Chemistry) win the prize for discoveries made while working on their dissertations. The Prix Schläfli has been awarded since 1866.