Kavli Prize Committee Appointments
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints three Kavli Prize Committees on the basis of nominations received by leading international academies and other equivalent scientific organizations. Nominations for the committees were provided by:
- The Chinese Academy of Sciences
- The French Academy of Sciences
- The Max Planck Society (Germany)
- The National Academy of Sciences (US)
- The Royal Society (UK)
2014 Kavli Prize Committees
These distinguished panels of international scientists review and recommend the Kavli Prize recipients on the basis of the nomination process. The panels for 2014:
Kavli Prize Committee in Astrophysics
- Mats Carlsson (Chair)
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, UiO
Oslo, Norway - Claude Canizares
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts – United States - Carlos S. Frenk
Durham University
England, UK - Guinevière Kauffmann
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Garching, Germany - Claire Max
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California – United States
Kavli Prize Committee in Nanoscience
- Arne Brataas (Chair)
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway - Mildred Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts – United States - Evelyn Hu
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts – United States - Klaus Kern
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Stuttgart, Germany - Xie Yi
University of Science and Technology of China
Anhui, China
Kavli Prize Committee in Neuroscience
- Ole Petter Ottersen (Chair)
Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience,UiO
Oslo, Norway - Cornelia Bargmann
The Rockefeller University
New York City, New York – United States - Lily Jan
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, Calfornia – United States - Erwin Neher
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry
Göttingen, Germany - Stanislas Dehaene
INSERM-CEA
Paris, France