VATICAN CITY (CNS) Four Nobel Prize winners, including the new president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, received the Erice "Science for Peace" award. Each year, members of the Switzerland-based World Federation of Scientists select noted scientists and world leaders who have promoted the use of science and technology for peace.
The 2011 awards ceremony was Jan. 29 at the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican and was presided over by Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists and member of the pontifical academy.
Among the award recipients was Nobel laureate Werner Arber, an 81-year-old Swiss microbiologist who was appointed president of the science academy in January.
The other winners were:
U.S. physicist Samuel Ting, a Nobel Prize winner in 1976, who taught at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yuan Tseh Lee, a chemist, who, in 1986, was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate.
Gerard ‘t Hooft, a Dutch quantum physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1999.
"Science for Peace" award recipients in the past have included Pope John Paul II and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
