| 2009 |
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| November |
Marc Henneaux, Director of the Institutes, received the "Humboldt Research Award" |
| 2008 |
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| 15 December |
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| 10 June |
The Shaw Foundation announces that its prestigious annual Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences is co-awarded to Ludwig Faddeev, Honorory Member of the Solvay Institutes and Member of the Solvay Scientific Committee for Physics, "for his widespread and influential contributions to Mathematical Physics". |
2007 |
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| 31 May |
Claudio Bunster, Director of the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (Valdivia, Chile) is made honorary member of the Solvay Institutes. |
2006 |
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| 18 October |
Ludwig Faddeev, first holder of the International Solvay Chair in Physics (2006) and Chen Ning Yang, 1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics, are made Honorary Members of the International Solvay Institutes in a ceremony that takes place at the Maison Ernest Solvay in Brussels.
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| 13 June |
Pierre Gaspard, member of the Local Solvay Scientific Committee, receives the Francqui Prize from King Albert II of Belgium for his work on chaos theory.
The Francqui Prize is the highest and most prestigious Belgian scientific distinction. |
2005 |
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| 22 June |
Academic Ceremony of Signature of Cooperation Agreements between the Solvay Institutes, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with speeches by the authorities of the Universities and the Solvay Institutes, as well as by:
Mrs. Fientje Moerman, Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Governement and Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade;
Mrs. Marie-Dominique Simonet, Vice-Minister-President and Minister for Higher Education, Scientific Research and International Relations of the Government of the French-speaking Community;
Professor Gerard 't Hooft, Nobel Prize in Physics 1999;
Professor Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002. |
2004 |
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| 10 December |
David Gross, member of the Solvay Scientific Committee for Physics, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction". A reception has been given in his honour at the Solvays' on 21 November. |
| June |
Albert Goldbeter, member of the Local Solvay Scientific Committee, is awarded the prestigious "Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal" for 2004. |
| May |
Robert Brout and François Englert, Honorary Members of the Solvay Institutes, receive the Wolf Prize "for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles." |
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