The Millennium Technology Prizes are awarded by Technology Academy Finland every second year as a tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations. The Winner of this prize receive 800.000 € and a prestigious trophy named Peak that is designed by Finnish sculptor Helena Hietanen. This year laureates were awarded within the Millennium Technology Weeks in the Finnish Opera in Helsinki on June 9, 2010. This was the fourth time that the award has been handed out.
Foto: Marina Hužvárová, Akademic bulletin
As a winner of
Millennium Technology Prize 2010 was declared a director of the Laboratory of Photonics
and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Professor
Michael Gr
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tzel of Switzerland for his third generation, low cost, dye-sensitized solar
cells. The two other laureates Professor
Richard Friend of the University of Cambridge and Professor
Stephen Furber of the University of Manchester were awarded with the prizes of
150,000 €.
The renowned prize has been established to steer the course of technological development to a more humane direction and its aims are to promote technological research and innovation that have a positive impact on the quality of life, alleviate fears towards technological change and encourage discussion between technology specialists and societal decision makers. Nominations for the prize are made by academies, universities, research institutes or industry and candidates can sought from all fields of technology.
MARINA HUŽVÁROVÁ
10.9.2010
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