{"id":3191,"date":"2003-11-17T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.consejoculturalmundial.org\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2023-07-07T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T07:00:28","slug":"prof-martin-rees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.consejoculturalmundial.org\/es_mx\/winners\/winner-science\/prof-martin-rees\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Martin Rees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2003<\/h5>
Field of Research: Astrophysics<\/h5>
Date: 17 November 2003<\/h5>
Place of Ceremony: National Archives of Finland<\/h5>
Host Institution: University of Helsinki
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
National Archives of Finland<\/h5>
Host Country: Helsinki, Finland<\/h5>

\u201cCosmologists have now grasped at least the outlines of our entire cosmos, and learnt what it is made of. We can trace the evolutionary story back before our Solar System formed \u2014 indeed back to an epoch, long before there were any stars, when everything sprouted from an intensely hot \u2018genesis event\u2019, the so called Big Bang, nearly 14 billion years ago.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>The first microsecond is shrouded in mystery but everything that happened since then \u2014 the emergence of our complex cosmos from simple beginnings \u2014 is the outcome of laws that we can understand, even though the details still elude us. Quasars, black holes, neutron stars and the \u2018big bang\u2019 have entered the general vocabulary, if not the common understanding. A challenge for the 21st century is to refine our present picture, filling in ever more detail, just as generations of surveyors did for the Earth \u2014 and, especially, to probe the mysterious domains where earlier cartographers wrote \u201chere be dragons\u201d.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>We are discovering new planets around distant stars, and probing the underlying laws that allowed their emergence. We are starting to address Einstein\u2019s famous question: \u2018Did God have any choice in the creation of the universe?\u2019<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>Cosmic exploration has never been as rapid and dramatic as it is today; the conceptual excitement of the subject has never been more intense.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>But science is an unending quest, and cosmologists have brought into sharper focus a new set of questions. What happened before the big bang? Is there life elsewhere? What causes gravity and mass? Is the universe infinite? How did atoms assemble into brains able to ponder these mysteries? How did an immensely complex biosphere emerge on at least one planet around at least one star?<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>These fundamental questions fascinate a wide public. Cosmology is becoming a part of common culture in the 21st century, just as Darwinism was in the 20th.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>The stupendous timespans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture. But most people still perceive humanity as some kind of culmination of evolution: cosmologists, in contrast, are mindful that still vaster timespans lie ahead and can offer a distinctive perspective on our fragile Earth. The unfolding of intelligence and complexity could still be near its cosmic beginnings: in far-future aeons even more marvellous biodiversity could emerge.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>Our Earth, a tiny \u2018pale blue dot\u2019 in the cosmos, may be of galactic \u2014\u00a0even cosmic \u2014 significance. It could be one of the rare locations where advanced life has merged and with the potential to develop further.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>From this perspective, the present century seems the most crucial in Earth\u2019s history \u2014 it is a century when human choices and actions could ensure the perpetual future of life (which may lie not just on the Earth, but far beyond it); in contrast, through malign intent, or through misadventure, 21st-century technology could jeopardise life\u2019s potential, foreclosing its human and posthuman future.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>The wider cosmos has a potential future that could even be infinite. But will this eternity be filled with ever more complex and subtle forms of life, or as empty as the Earth\u2019s first sterile seas? The choice may depend on us, this century.<\/p>

\u201c<\/span>By research, writing and persuasion, I hope to raise consciousness and spread awareness of the intellectual fascination, the potentialities and the potential hazards of 21st century science. Science is a global culture, and the challenges are global too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2024 Field of Work: Evolutionary biology Date: 23 October 2024 Place of Ceremony: Faculty Club Host Institution: McGill University Host Country: Canada Professor Eske Willerslev, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Copenhagen and Prince Philip Professor at the University of Cambridge, has been selected as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2024. The prize is granted in recognition of the numerous breakthroughs in<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts 2024 Field of Work: Literature Date: 23 October 2024 Place of Ceremony: Faculty Club Host Institution: McGill University Host Country: Canada C\u00f3nal Creedon has been awarded the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts 2024. C\u00f3nal Creedon is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, playwright, documentary film maker, essayist, and collaborative artist. His creative practice has been described as an exploration of \u2018the spaghetti bowl of streets\u2019 in downtown<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2023 Field of Work: Nanoscale Science Date: 3 November 2023 Place of Ceremony: Great Hall Host Institution: University of Helsinki Host Country: Finland Professor Christoph Gerber, Department of Physics and Swiss Nano Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, has been selected as the winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 The prize is awarded in recognition of the fundamental nature and broad impact of his research on<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos World Award of Education 2023 Field of Work: Meta-analysis Date: 3 November 2023 Place of Ceremony: Great Hall Host Institution: University of Helsinki Host Country: Finland Professor Larry V. Hedges has been selected as the winner of the World Cultural Council Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos World Award of Education 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 The prize is awarded in recognition of Prof. Hedges\u00b4s groundbreaking and systematic application of research and his development of methods for meta-analysis over the past<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts 2022 Field of Work: Architecture Date: 29-30 November 2022 Place of Ceremony: Great Hall of Acts, \u201cSala dos Capelos\u201d Host Institution: University of Coimbra Host Country: Portugal Architect and educator J. Meejin Yoon, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, USA, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Members<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos World Award of Education 2022 Field of Work: Educational Leadership Date: 29-30 November 2022 Place of Ceremony: Great Hall of Acts, \u201cSala dos Capelos\u201d Host Institution: University of Coimbra Host Country: Portugal The 2022 Jos\u00e9 Vasconcelos World Award of Education was granted to Professor Claudia Mitchell, Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education of McGill University in Canada. The prize was awarded for her life commitment to education as an inspiring<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2022 Field of Work: Astrophysics Date: 29-30 November 2022 Place of Ceremony: Great Hall of Acts, \u201cSala dos Capelos\u201d Host Institution: University of Coimbra Host Country: Portugal The winner of the 2022 Albert Einstein World Award of Science was Professor Victoria M. Kaspi, Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, and Distinguished James McGill Chair at McGill University, and Director of the McGill Space Institute, Canada. She is a<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Albert Einstein World Award of Science 2019 Field of Work: Nanotechnology Date: 3-4 October 2019 Place of Ceremony: Main Convention Hall Host Institution: University of Tsukuba Host Country: Japan The winner of the 2019 Albert Einstein World Award of Science is Prof. Zhong Lin Wang, Chair and Regents Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. The prize is awarded for Prof. Wang\u2019s pioneering and seminal contributions to the discovery,<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts 2019 Field of Work: Cinematography Date: 3-4 October 2019 Place of Ceremony: Main Convention Hall Host Institution: University of Tsukuba Host Country: Japan The winner of the 2019 Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts is Portuguese independent film producer, Paulo Branco. This recognition is given for Mr. Branco\u2019s engagement with new views on cinematographic expressions and his dedicated commitment to cultivating intensive communication and activity between the<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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