Kavli Prizes awarded to scientists in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029870
New York Times : On 2 June the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced the recipients of this year’s Kavli Prizes. The astrophysics prize went to Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT for their role in the detection of gravitational waves . The nanoscience prize was shared among Gerd Binnig (formerly of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Christoph Gerber of the University of Basel in Switzerland, and Calvin Quate of Stanford University for the invention of atomic force microscopy . The neuroscience prize was given to Eve Marder of Brandeis University; Michael Merzenich of the University of California, San Francisco; and Carla Shatz of Stanford for their discoveries concerning the flexibility of the nervous system and the brain. The recipients of each prize split $1 million.
