Prizes > Peter Debye prize
After the founding of the university in Maastricht, to which Edmond Hustinx, as board member and financial supporter of the Scientific Education foundation in Limburg, made an essential contribution, a prize for science was set up called the Peter Debye prize. This ten thousand euro prize was in the period of 1977–2004 awarded every two or three years, in memory of the Maastricht born and bred physicist and Nobel Prize winner Peter Debye (1884–1966).In 2008, the board of the foundation has decided to develop a new set-up for the prize.
The Peter Debye prize was established to underscore the significance of original research in the natural sciences.The candidate preferably not only works in a specialized professional field but creates a link between different professional fields. The prize has the nature of an encouragement for someone who still has an important part of his or her career ahead of them. The next Debye prize will be awarded on March 24th 2011 (birthday of Peter Debye and year of the 50th anniversary of the foundation) in the town hall of Maastricht.
To be considered as predecessor to this prize is the Edmond Hustinx prize for chemistry.
€ 10,000
physics
international
quadrennial
March
Laureates
Alfons van Blaaderen, Universiteit Utrecht, 2011
Allan Bradley, Molecular and Human Genetics, Cambridge, 2004
Tom Mitchell, Computer science, Pittsburgh, 2002
Roeland Nusse, Stanford USA, 2000
L. Rappaport, K. Schwartz and B. Swynghedauw, Paris, France: Molecular biology of cardiovascular diseases, 1994
J. Hardy, London, United Kingdom: Aging of the brain, 1992
M. Dauncey and A. Prentice, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Nutrition/energy exchange, 1989
T. Godfraind, Brussels, Belgium: Cardiovascular diseases, 1987
M. Chamberlain, Leeds, United Kingdom: Rehabilitation, 1984
M. Greaves, London, United Kingdom: Immunology and/or oncology, 1982
S. Moncada en J. Vane, London, United Kingdom: Cardiovascular diseases and immunology, 1980
A. Querido, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Integral medicine, 1977
Predecessor Edmond Hustinxprijs for Chemistry:
Robert A. Egli and Karl Heinz Szekielda, Swiss and Germany: New applications in chemistry with aid of the Hustinx-flask.
