What a splash. #BalzanPrice ceremony in the #Swiss #parliament with the current #president.
Prize winners: Jean-Jacques Hublin (#anthropology), David Damrosch (world #literature), Fondazione Francesca Rava (humanity), Eske Willerslev (anthropology), Heino Falcke (#astronomy ok, thatβs meπ)
Tonight 6pm (European time) the #Balzan price announcement will be live streamed on https://www.balzan.org/en
There will be one prize in astronomy awarded for "High resolution images: from planetary to cosmic objects"
and four other subjects (like world literature).
The prize is valued 750.000 Swiss Franks and hence is one of the big ones. Half of the money is supposed to be passed on to junior scientists in the subject area!
#BalzanPrice #Astrodon
#Astronomy #Astrophysics
Prof Heino Falcke