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    • The current laureate
    • Past laureates
    • Subsequent Nobel Prize laureates
  • Nomination and selection
    • Nomination 2023 pre-announcenement
  • The award ceremony
    • The award ceremony 2022
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The award ceremonies of the past
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    • The founder
    • The legacy
  • Create excellence!
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Award ceremony of the Swiss science prizes 2020

Award ceremony of the Swiss science prizes 2020

In the year of the Marcel Benoist Foundation's 100th anniversary, Switzerland’s two most prestigious science accolades, the Marcel Benoist Prize and the Latsis Prize, should have been presented at a joint awards ceremony. The awards ceremony had to be postponed to 2021.

In 2020, the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize, often referred to as the Swiss Nobel Prize, has gone to Rudolf Aebersold (ETH Zurich/University of Zurich) for his pioneering work in the field of systems biology. The National Latsis Prize, awarded to young researchers under the age of 40, has gone to Maryna Viazovska (EPF Lausanne) for her ground-breaking mathematical problem solving.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the awards ceremony for the 2020 Swiss Science Prizes, which was planned for November 4 in Bern City Hall, had to be cancelled and postponed to 2021.

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