Amsterdam, 27 September 2012 - The Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation today announced that His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange awarded the Heineken Prizes for Science and Art to Titia de Lange, Peter Struycken, Hans Clevers, William Laurance, Geoffrey Parker and John Duncan during an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.
The Prince also awarded the Heineken Young Scientists Awards 2012, for outstanding young scientists, to Geert van den Bogaart, Linda van Laake, Tjisse van der Heide, Ugur Ümit Üngör and Floris de Lange.
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Award ceremony of the Heineken Prizes and the Heineken Young Scientists Awards 2012
Top row: Peter Struycken, Geert van den Bogaart, Tjisse van der Heide, Floris de Lange, Linda van Laake, Ugur Ümit Üngör and John Duncan.
Lower row: Titia de Lange, Hans Clevers, Charlene de Carvalho (chairwoman Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation), HRH the Prince of Orange, Pearl Dykstra (vice president KNAW), William Laurance and Geoffrey Parker.
Photo: Frank van Beek
For more information about the winners of the Heineken Prizes 2012 and the Heineken Young Scientists Awards 2012 go to www.knaw.nl/heinekenprizes and www.heinekenprizes.com.
More information:
Irene van Houten, KNAW Communication Department
T: +31 6 11 37 59 09
E: irene.van.houten@bureau.knaw.nl
Michiel Gosens, HEINEKEN International, External Communications
T: +31 20 523 9230
E: michiel.gosens@heineken.com
