THE 2003 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS
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THE 2003 LOUIS-JEANTET PRIZE-WINNERS are Wolfgang BAUMEISTER (Martinsried near Munich), Riitta HARI (Helsinki) and Nikos K. LOGOTHETIS (Tübingen).
Wolfgang BAUMEISTER receives the 2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for his work on the proteasome and for further development of cryoelectron tomography, which provides three-dimensional images of intact cells at high resolution and with it new vistas of their supramolecular organisation.
Riitta HARI receives the 2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for her pioneering work on measuring precisely, in time and space, activation sequences of healthy and diseased human brain during specific tasks. For this she has greatly contributed to the development of magnetoencephalography, a non-invasive technique that detects tiny changes in the magnetic field associated with brain activity.
Nikos K. LOGOTHETIS receives the 2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for the exceptional progress he made in understanding the perception of visual images by the brain. His goal is to define how different regions of the brain may lie at the root of conscious behaviour. He analyses which neuronal activities are required to attend to an object, to recognise it, to maintain it in memory or to decide to act upon it.
The above information refers to the time of the award.THE AWARDS CEREMONY was held at Geneva (Switzerland), on Friday April 11, 2003.
