I know only too well that some readers will interpret this post as pompous and self-congratulatory, but I nevertheless feel like telling my readers that I have become a member of the ACADEMIA EUROPAEA. In case you don’t know what this is, Wikipedia provides the following information:
Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE) is an award conferred by the Academia Europaea to individuals that have demonstrated “sustained academic excellence”.[2] Membership is by invitation only by existing MAE only and judged during a peer review selection process.[3] Members are entitled to use the post-nominal letters MAE.[4]
New members are announced annually, every year since 1988.[5][6] For a more complete list see Category:Members of Academia Europaea..[7][8][9][10][11] Some Members of the Academia Europaea have received very prestigious awards, medals and prizes, such as:
- The Nobel Prize[12] e.g. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1995, Physiology), Arvid Carlsson (2000, Physiology or Medicine), Paul Nurse (2001, Physiology or Medicine), Tim Hunt (2001, Physiology or Medicine), Kurt Wüthrich (2002, Chemistry), John Sulston (2002, Physiology or Medicine), Sydney Brenner 2002, Physiology or Medicine, Aaron Ciechanover (2004, Chemistry), Roy J. Glauber (2005, Physics), Roger D. Kornberg (2006, Chemistry), Gerhard Ertl (2007, Chemistry), Richard Tol (2007, shared winner of the Nobel Peace Prize), Harald zur Hausen (2008, Physiology or Medicine), Luc Montagnier (2008, Physiology or Medicine), Robert G. Edwards (2010, Physiology or Medicine), John B. Gurdon (2012, Physiology or Medicine), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986, Physiology)
- The Wolf Prize,[13] e.g. Simon Donaldson (2020), Alexander Beilinson (2018), Peter Zoller (2013), Alain Aspect (2010), Anton Zeilinger (2010), Axel Ullrich (2010), David Baulcombe (2010), Howard Cedar (2008), Albert Fert (2006/2007), Alexander Levitzki (2005), Sergei P. Novikov (2005), Alexander Varshavsky (2001), Saharon Shelah (2001), Vladimir I. Arnold (2001).
- The Turing Award,[14] e.g. Joseph Sifakis (2007), Adi Shamir (2002).
- The Fields Medal,[15] e.g. Martin Hairer (2014), Elon Lindenstrauss (2010), Stanislav Smirnov (2010), Cédric Villani (2010), Wendelin Werner (2006), Timothy Gowers (1998), Maxim Kontsevich (1998), Jean Bourgain (1994), Pierre-Louis Lions (1994), Simon Donaldson (1986), Enrico Bombieri (1974), Sergei P. Novikov (1970), Michael Atiyah (1966).
- The Lasker Award,[16] e.g. Roy Calne (2012), David Weatherall (2010), John Gurdon (2009), David Baulcombe (2008), Alec Jeffreys (2005), Pierre Chambon (2004), Robert Edwards (2001), Sydney Brenner (2000), Aaron Ciechanover (2000), Alexander Varshavsky (2000).
- The Abel Prize,[17] e.g. Andrew Wiles (2016), Endre Szemerédi (2012), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (2009), Jacques Tits (2008), Lennart Carleson (2006), Michael Atiyah (2004).
- The Gödel Prize,[18] e.g. Christos H. Papadimitriou (2012), Johan Hastad (2011, 1994), Alexander Razborov (2007), Noga Alon (2005), László Lovász (2001), Moshe Vardi (2000), Pierre Wolper (2000).
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The Academia Europaea was founded in 1988, on the initiative of the UK’s Royal Society and other National Academies in Europe. It is a `Not for Profit’ Charity registered in the UK. The Academia Europaea is the only Academy with individual members from the Council of Europe states and from other nations across the world. Currently, there are some 5000 members who cover the full range of academic disciplines.
The objectives of the Academia Europaea are the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages.
The Academy organizes meetings and workshops, provides scientific and scholarly advice, and publishes the international journal the ‘European Review’ and is associated with Biology Direct. It operates regional knowledge hubs out of Barcelona, Bergen, Budapest, Cardiff, Munich, Tbilisi, and Wroclaw, hosted by Universities and National academies.
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I am both proud and thankful that I have been honored in this way.
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Congratulations, I’d say this is well-deserved!
thanks
Well deserved indeed! Glad to see it.
very kind, thanks
Many congratulations.
Luc Montagnier, though?
he did after all get a Nobel for excellent work [before he went round the bend]
Congratulations Edzard! How wonderful. ♡
thanks
Congratulations Edzard
I’d love to see some of your “sustained academic excellence” evident in your blog forum reply posting, rather than endless sarcasm and brut nastiness displayed from you so often.
Than perhaps the world might truly be a better place.
for me, the blog is NOT an academic activity.
if you want to judge that, do a Medline search.
@ EE
“for me, the blog is NOT an academic activity”
lol…. obviously.
But no have no problem showing your rear side when you want.
Congratulations. Very well deserved!
Thanks
Congratulations Professor! You deserve it for all the hardwork you have done shedding light on SCAM. Also, I want to applaud you on how well you run this blog. I stumbled upon your blog a few years ago and has been an avid reader ever since. The blog posts are top notch and your administration of the comments section is one of the best I have seen over the years. You must have a lot of patience going thru each and every comment including the assanine ones and the ones that are straight out of looney tunes land. You are very liberal with allowing people post their thoughts, including that of your critics. No matter how lineant you are, some
peopletrolls unjustifiably and repeatedly scream censorship for not being allowed to post the BS they tend to wallow in. Thank you for keeping the pigs at bay.Anyway, keep up the good work and I hope to learn more about different SCAMs and how to critically evaluate them.
thanks
Congratulations! Everyone else has said how well deserved this is so I’ll join in.
yes, exactly
https://edzardernst.com/2020/04/bioresonance-a-new-and-hilariously-ingenious-study/
Many loud and cheerful congratulations dear Professor. You have worked hard and well to receive this well deserved and prestigious honour.
thank you