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AARHUS, DENMARK. MARCH 2012. The World Cultural Council will present the 2012 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science to Professor Michael Grätzel, Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

The members of the Interdisciplinary Committee have chosen Professor Michael Grätzel as the winner of the 2012 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science for his outstanding accomplishments to the welfare of mankind and the health of the planet, solving arguably one of the most important technical problems relating to energy and sustainability that we face today through a major contribution, namely the development of the dye-sensitized solar cell, known as the DSC or Grätzel Cell.

The ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science was created as a means of recognition to those men and women who have accomplished scientific and technological achievements which have brought progress to science and ensuing benefit to mankind.

The 2012 JOSE VASCONCELOS World Award of Education will be granted to Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature of French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University, USA.

The prize is awarded for his prolific humanistic research and outstanding influence across continents as a scholar and groundbreaking philosopher.

The 2012 JOSÉ VASCONCELOS World Award of Education is made every other year to a person who has stood out in the field of education, as a teacher or policy shaper, whose scope of influence has been outstanding, educating humanity towards a culture of global understanding, while encouraging respect for human being.

This year, the 29th Award Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April18th at 16:30 hrs, at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark within the framework of the conference Excellence Revisited – the Value of Excellence from 18th to 20th April 2012.

The conference is one of the major events of the Danish EU Presidency 2012 and is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education, the Danish National Research Foundation, the Lundbeck Foundation, the Danish Council for Independent Research and Aarhus University.
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