The Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences consist of 11 awards biannually bestowed by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . The prizes are named in honor of Henry Pierre Heineken, son of founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken , Alfred Heineken , former chairman of Heineken Holdings , and Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken , current chair of the Heineken Prizes Foundations, which fund all Heineken Prizes for Arts and Sciences. Thirteen winners of the Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics or the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Medicine subsequently were awarded a Nobel Prize .
7-527: The five science prizes ($ 200,000 each) are: 1. Dr H. P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics 2–4. Dr A. H. Heineken Prizes for History, Medicine and Environmental Sciences 5. C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prize for Cognitive Sciences In 1988, the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Art was established to be awarded to an outstanding artist working in the Netherlands. The prize is €100,000, half of which
14-814: A special session of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which takes place every even year at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. In 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012 the Prizes were presented by the Prince of Orange . The following winners of the Heineken Prizes for Medicine and Biochemistry and Biophysics have since won a Nobel Prize : Beurs van Berlage The Beurs van Berlage (literally Berlage's stock market )
21-603: Is a building on the Damrak , in the centre of Amsterdam . It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in particular functionalists and the Amsterdam School . It is now used as a venue for concerts, exhibitions and conferences. The building is constructed of red brick, with an iron and glass roof, and stone piers , lintels and corbels . Its entrance
28-518: Is to be spent on a publication and/or exhibit. Since 2010, Heineken Young Scientists Awards are given to young talent in similar research fields as the Dr H. P. Heineken , Dr A. H. Heineken and C. L. de Carvalho-Heineken Prizes . The selection system of the Heineken Prizes can be compared to that of the Nobel Prizes. Scientists from all over the world are invited to nominate fellow scientists for
35-413: Is under a 40-metre (130 ft) high clock tower , while inside lie three large multi-storey halls formerly used as trading floors , with offices and communal facilities grouped around them. The aim of the architect was to modify the styles of the past by emphasizing sweeping planes and open plan interiors. It has stylistic similarities with some earlier buildings, for instance St Pancras station and
42-454: The Heineken Prizes. The Royal Netherlands Academy appoints special committees consisting of eminent scientists and chaired by a member of the board of one of the academy's two divisions. Both members and nonmembers of the academy are eligible for membership of these committees. An independent jury of members of the academy, acting in a personal capacity, chooses the winners of the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for Art. The Heineken Prizes are awarded in
49-568: The work of H. H. Richardson in America, or the Castell dels Tres Dragons , Barcelona , by Lluís Domènech i Montaner . True to its nineteenth-century roots, it maintains the use of ornament in a civic structure. On 2 February 2002 the civil ceremony of the wedding of King Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta took place in the Beurs van Berlage. The Beurs van Berlage has a café located on
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