Lene Hau has received the Carlsberg Foundation's Research Award

Lene Vestergaard Hau has received the Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Award from the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters on October 6, 2011. The prize of 1 million kroner is awarded in connection with the 200 year anniversary of brewer J.C. Jacobsen, founder of the Carlsberg Breweries and the Carlsberg Foundation. One prize each in the Natural Sciences and the Humanities was awarded. The Carlsberg Foundation has been one of the absolute main funders of Danish research over the last century.

 

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Flemming Besenbacher, the Carlsberg Foundation and professor at the University of Aarhus; Lene Vestergaard Hau recipient of the prize for the Natural Sciences and professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University; Søren-Peter Olesen, Secretary General for the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters and professor at the University of Copenhagen; Kirsten Hastrup, President for the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters and professor at the University of Copenhagen; Dan Zahavi, recipient of the prize for the Humanities and professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen; Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation and of the Carlsberg Breweries and professor at the University of Copenhagen (photo: Jeannette Pardorf).
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The Minister for Research, Innovation, and Higher Education, Morten Østergaard (middle), congratulating Lene Vestergaard Hau and Dan Zahavi at the Prize ceremony held at the Carlsberg Academy (photo: Jeannette Pardorf).

 

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