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In this panel discussion as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford, Laureates Sir John Pendry, Paul F Hoffman and William Forsythe engage in a conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School, discussing insights from their careers, future challenges and which skill each Laureates wished they had outside of their professional field.
The Kyoto Prize is an international award founded by the Inamori Foundation to honour those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of humankind. The Blavatnik School of Government is honoured to bring the Kyoto Prize Laureates to Oxford each May.
In 2024, the Kyoto Prize was awarded to Sir John Pendry, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology, a theoretical physicist who contributed the theoretical construction of metamaterials to the field of materials science; to William Forsythe, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Arts and Philosophy, a choreographer who opened a new horizon of performing arts by radically renewing methodologies and aesthetics of ballet and dance; and to Paul F Hoffman, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, a geologist who worked on proving Snowball Earth accelerating life evolution and plate tectonics dating back to the first half of Earth’s history.
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
kyotoprize.ox.ac.uk
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
In this panel discussion as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford, Laureates Sir John Pendry, Paul F Hoffman and William Forsythe engage in a conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School, discussing insights from their careers, future challenges and which skill each Laureates wished they had outside of their professional field.
The Kyoto Prize is an international award founded by the Inamori Foundation to honour those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of humankind. The Blavatnik School of Government is honoured to bring the Kyoto Prize Laureates to Oxford each May.
In 2024, the Kyoto Prize was awarded to Sir John Pendry, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology, a theoretical physicist who contributed the theoretical construction of metamaterials to the field of materials science; to William Forsythe, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Arts and Philosophy, a choreographer who opened a new horizon of performing arts by radically renewing methodologies and aesthetics of ballet and dance; and to Paul F Hoffman, the 2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Basic Sciences, a geologist who worked on proving Snowball Earth accelerating life evolution and plate tectonics dating back to the first half of Earth’s history.
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
kyotoprize.ox.ac.uk
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
