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Dr. László Lovász, the 2010 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences, was awarded the Helmholtz Medal, a prestigious scientific award in Germany. Congratulations on the great honor!
At the award ceremony, the President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities delivered a congratulatory address, stating:
“Over the past fifty years, László Lovász has profoundly influenced the development of the intersection of mathematics and computer science, solving important open problems, and pioneering new areas of specialization. . . . His broad grounding in mathematics has enabled him to forge unexpected bridges between different fields of mathematics, to harness those bridges for the theoretical advancement of the fields themselves, to bring the results into computer science, and to open up new areas of mathematical application.”
The Helmholtz Medal is awarded biennially by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to scholars who have achieved outstanding research accomplishments in the fields of humanities and social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, as well as biology, medicine, and engineering sciences. Among past Kyoto Prize laureates, Dr. Avram Noam Chomsky (1996) and Professor Jürgen Habermas (2000) have also received this medal.
*The photo was taken when he came to Japan in 2010 to be awarded the Kyoto Prize.