Awards & Winners

2008 Kavli Prize

Check winners and nominations of 2008 Kavli Prize. Check awards winners of 2008 Kavli Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Donald Lynden-Bell, Maarten Schmidt

(for their work on quasars.)
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

Sumio Iijima, Louis E. Brus

(for their respective discoveries of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots, and carbon nanotubes.)
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience

Pasko Rakic, Thomas Jessell, Sten Grillner

(for deciphering the basic mechanisms which govern the development and functioning of the networks of cells in the brain and spinal cord.)

Yearwise list of Kavli Prize Winners