Nov 29, 2021 12:06:00

Who is the winner of the new science award 'Einstein Foundation Award' with a prize of 64 million yen to promote high quality research?

It has been pointed out that modern research has many problems. Meanwhile, the winners of the new Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research , which began in 2021 to support quality research, have been announced. .. Winners include physicist Paul Ginsparg , known as the developer of the preprint server arXiv .

Einstein Foundation to present the inaugural € 500,000 Award for Promoting Quality in Research
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The Einstein Foundation, which was established in 2009 to support outstanding scientific research in Berlin, Germany, announced that it will launch the 'Einstein Foundation Award' in December 2020 to support high-quality research. .. The total prize amount of this award is set at 500,000 euros (about 64 million yen), and the target research fields are natural science, social science, and humanities, and the rigor, reliability, robustness, and transparency of research are set. The purpose is to raise the awareness and activities of scientists, organizations, funders, and politicians who carry out high-quality research. The awards are divided into three categories: 'Researchers,' 'Research Institutes,' and 'Researchers in Early Careers.'

The first Einstein Foundation Awards ceremony was held on November 24, 2021. American physicist Paul Ginsparg, the Center for Open Science , a non-profit organization based in the United States, and Jessica Jessica were awarded for their significant contributions to improving the quality and robustness of their research results. This is the project 'Many Babies 5' by Mr. Cozy and Mr. Martin Zettersten.

Ginsparg is a well-known developer of the preprint server arXiv. In receiving the award, arXiv was praised for 'laying the foundation for a revolution in scientific publishing' and 'supporting a swift response to the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in a pandemic.'

Regarding the Center for Open Science, the Anstein Foundation 'permanently transformed the global research culture of recent years by providing scientists with the tools and digital infrastructure needed to make open science the default.' It states.

'Many Babies 5' is a cross-cultural research project by Jessica Cozy and Martin Zettersten that created an influential model in the study of infant attention.

Ginsparg and the Center for Open Science will each receive € 200,000, and the Many Babes 5 research team will receive € 100,000.

The 2021 judges will be Marcia McNut, President of the American Academy of Sciences, Julie Maxton of the Royal Society , Alvin Ross , Nobel Prize Winner of Economics, Lorraine Duston , Scientist, and Neuroscience. Alastair Bakan , philosophers Moshe Halbertal and Susan Niemann , computer scientist Michelle Kosnar , psychologists Dorothy Bishop and Susie Styles, and economist Lina Rabinas. And Edward Miguel , and Soisic Elise One Sonne, a social scientist at the World Bank.