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  • Nomination and selection
    • Nomination 2022
  • The award ceremony
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The awards ceremony of the past
  • Marcel Benoist
    • The founder
    • The legacy
  • Create excellence!
    • “A prize for another 100 years”
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    • Foundation
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    • Board of Trustees
    • Patronage Committee and Friends
    • Foundation assets
    • Contact
  • Laureates
    • The current laureate
    • Past laureates
    • Subsequent Nobel Prize laureates
  • Nomination and selection
    • Nomination 2022
  • The award ceremony
    • The award ceremony 2021
    • The award ceremony 2020
    • The award ceremony 2019
    • The award ceremony 2018
    • The awards ceremony of the past
  • Marcel Benoist
    • The founder
    • The legacy
  • Create excellence!
    • “A prize for another 100 years”
    • Tax-related & legal issues
  • Foundation
    • Foundation
    • News
    • Board of Trustees
    • Patronage Committee and Friends
    • Foundation assets
    • Contact

Foundation

Foundation

The Marcel Benoist Foundation was established on 19 November 1920. By accepting Marcel Benoist’s legacy, the Confederation committed itself to respect the founder's wish – to fund an annually awarded science prize.

The Foundation Board of Trustees is chaired by the federal councillor responsible for research and education, Guy Parmelin. There are 14 further members, one from each of the ten cantonal universities of Basel, Bern, Geneva, Fribourg, Lausanne, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen, Zurich and the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, from the two federal institutes of technology in Lausanne and Zurich, a senior federal official, and the French ambassador or their deputy.

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The award ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the foundation took place in the National Council chamber in Bern: Federal Councillor Ruth Dreifuss with the two laureates Henri Isliker (left) and Alfred Pletscher (right).

Former presidents and trustees include former federal councillors Ruth Dreifuss, Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, Pascal Couchepin and Flavio Cotti; Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich, who was awarded the Benoist Prize in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in 2002, and Prof. Dr. Martin Schwab, who won the Benoist Prize in 1994.

In 2020 the Foundation celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 2020 the Foundation will celebrate its centenary. It would like to take the Swiss Science Prize, with its long tradition, successfully into the future.

The Marcel Benoist Foundation statutes include the deed of foundation and the regulations.

  • Further information
    100 years of the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize
    The Marcel Benoist Foundation – A Portrait
    Annual Report 2020
    Annual Report 2019
    Annual Report 2018
    Annual Report 2017
    Deed on the Establishment of the Marcel Benoist Foundation (in German)
    Regulations of the Marcel Benoist Foundation (in German)
    Former presidents

Contact

Marcel Benoist Foundation
State Secretariat for Education,
Research and Innovation SERI
Einsteinstrasse 2
CH – 3003 Bern

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