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FAQsThe BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of lasting impact for their originality, theoretical significance and ability to push back the frontiers of the known world. These international awards span eight categories: Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics), Biomedicine, Ecology and Conservation Biology, Information and Communication Technologies, Economics, Finance and Management, Contemporary Music, Climate Change and Development Cooperation.
8th Edition (2015) Laureates
The award is bestowed on physicists Stephen Hawking and Viatcheslav Mukhanov, of the University of Cambridge and LMU Munich respectively, for discovering that the galaxies were formed from quantum fluctuations in the early Universe.
The award goes to neuroscientists Edward Boyden of MIT, Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University and Gero Miesenböck of the University of Oxford for the development of optogenetics, which uses light to probe and modulate the workings of the brain.
Finnish ecologist Ilkka Hanski of the University of Helsinki, recently deceased, obtained the award for opening up an area of ecology that explains how species survive in fragmented habitats and allows to quantify extinction thresholds.
The award has been granted to the Mathematician Stephen Cook for his important role in identifying what computers can and cannot solve efficiently. His work has had a dramatic impact on all fields where complex computations are crucial.
Robert B. Wilson of Stanford University obtains the award for his pioneering contributions to the analysis of strategic interactions when economic agents have limited and different information about their environment.
Greek composer Georges Aperghis is honored for his reinvention of music theater, using sound, gesture, space and technology and involving performers in the compositional process.
The award has been bestowed on Indian climatologist Veerabhadran Ramanathan for discovering that other human-induced gases and pollutants besides CO2 have huge power to alter the Earth's climate.
The award goes to Australian economist Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University for his groundbreaking work on defining the extreme poverty threshold with internationally applicable standards that facilitate the establishment of specific development cooperation goals.
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