DR A.H. Heineken Prize for Art

Alfred Heineken's deep commitment to art led him to establish the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art (1988). It is one of six Heineken Prizes for Science and Art and five Heineken Young Scientists Awards presented every other year by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014, it will be fifty years ago that the Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics was awarded for the first time. In addition to this and the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art, the other prizes are the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for History, the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences, and the C.L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science. The total sum awarded to the prize-winners in the fields of science and scholarship is USD 1 million; the prize for art is EUR 100,000 euro (EUR 50,000 of which is intended for a publication and/or exhibition). The six Heineken Prizes are funded by the Dr H.P. Heineken Foundation and Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation, which also fund the five Heineken Young Scientists Awards in the same fields. Each of the latter awards is worth EUR 10,000.

For the editors

The Royal Academy website has more information about Wendelien van Oldenborgh and the Heineken Prizes in general. There is also a separate Heineken Prizes website.

The Academy will announce the winners of the five Heineken Prizes for Science around 15 April 2014.

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