NAS, IOM Members Among Recipients of $1 Million Kavli Prizes

June 3, 2010 -- Five members of the National Academy of Sciences, two of whom are also members of the Institute of Medicine, were among eight scientists awarded the prestigious Kavli Prize today. NAS members Jerry Nelson, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Roger Angel, University of Arizona, Tucson, were among the winners of the astrophysics prize. NAS member Richard Scheller, Genentech, shared the neuroscience prize with Thomas Südhof, Stanford University School of Medicine, and James Rothman, Yale University, both NAS and IOM members.

The winners in each prize field share a $1 million award. The Kavli Prize was initiated by and named after Fred Kavli, founder of the Kavli Foundation. The prize is administered in partnership with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. The winners will be presented their awards at a September ceremony and symposium in Oslo, Norway, where NAS President Ralph J. Cicerone and National Academy of Engineering President Charles M. Vest, who is on the board of the Kavli Foundation, will be panel speakers.

• Kavli Prize Website