starmus medal hawking
Under the name of the greatest scientist of the 20th and early 21st centuries, Stephen Hawking, and sponsored by Starmus, the most ambitious Science festival of all time, the Stephen Hawking Science Medal is a prestigious award which recognizes the merit of popular science on an international level.
The design of the medal used a portrait of Professor Hawking by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk and member of the Advisory Council Starmus since its first edition. The other side combines the image of Alexei Leonov of the first spacewalk and the iconic guitar – the “Red Special” – to demonstrate music, another major component of the Starmus Festival.
Announce of the Stephen Hawking Medal winners 2017
Winners 2017
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DR. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON

is noted for his exceptional and unique capacity to communicate science through his popular TV shows, books and lecturing around the world. His efforts have helped popularize science around the world – bringing new enthusiasm and interest to many disciplines within Science.

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THE BIG BANG THEORY

stars Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch. Created by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady, the series is produced by Chuck Lorre Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and is executive produced by Lorre, Prady and showrunner Steven Molaro. About to enter its 11th season, The Big Bang Theory airs on CBS, and five nights a week in national syndication in the United States.

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JEAN-MICHEL JARRE

has been one of the pioneering forces throughout the electronic music scene over the last four decades, having originally made his name in the 1970s for his critically acclaimed album OXYGENEOXYGENE was unmistakably a catalyst that set electronic music well on its way to becoming the behemoth that it is today, with JEAN-MICHEL’s music and follow through albums breaking down boundaries of composing and production paving the path for what has become today the most popular genre of music of all time.

Winners 2016
Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili

Physicist, author and broadcaster

I am absolutely delighted and honoured to be the very first recipient of the Stephen Hawking medal for science communication, particularly as there are so many great communicators out there these days. This a vindication that practicing research scientists can also be accepted and acknowledged as successful communicators. Like Stephen, I feel strongly that it is both a duty and privilege to share my wonder about the workings of the Universe and our place in it with as wide an audience as possible. I suppose you could say that what defines me is that I’m an ‘explainer’. After all, what’s the use of learning something new about the world, if you don’t then tell everyone about it?

Particle Fever

Particle Fever

Documentary Film

 “I’m deeply honored to receive this new award for science communication. I always feel great satisfaction when I hear that someone responded to Particle Fever – the fact that it was Stephen Hawking makes it truly special”.

Mark Levinson

“It is fantastic to win this medal.  Stephen Hawking is a great physicist and great communicator of science, and in both has left an indelible mark on the planet.  It is truly an honor.”

David E. Kaplan

Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer

Film soundtrack composer

I feel truly grateful and deeply honored to be awarded the STARMUS Stephen Hawking Medal in the category of Music and Arts. We artists constantly strive to search for and provoke through new questions in our work. That is one of the links between the arts and the sciences. The constant desire to be part of the adventure of the unknown.

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