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  Feferman awarded Rolf Schock Prize in logic and philosophy
The Schock prizes are awarded every two years in the fields of logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts and music.
Solomon Feferman is the recipient of the Rolf Schock Prize for his accomplishments in logic and philosophy.
"Though the Schock Prize is of relatively recent vintage, it is a major honor; indeed, perhaps the highest prize currently awarded for philosophy," said Kenneth A. Taylor, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/2003/june4/feferman-64.html   (597 words)

  
  Rolf Schock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rolf Schock (1933-1986), philosopher and artist, was born in France by German parents.
After completing a bachelor of arts in 1955 he pursued studies in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, he then pursued studies in Philosophy and Logic at UCLA from 1956 to 1960, when he in 1960 moved to Stockholm, Sweden, to specialize in theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University.
In 1986 Rolf Schock was killed in an accident.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rolf_Schock   (272 words)

  
 Rolf Schock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Rolf Schock (1933-1986), philosopher and artist, was born in (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France by German parents.
During the period 1964-1969 he also studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) Stockholm and he devoted a lot of his time to painting and photography on the side of conducting research.
For a some years he was tied to the (additional info and facts about Royal Institute of Technology) Royal Institute of Technology, in (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) Stockholm where the taught a series of courses.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ro/Rolf_Schock.htm   (201 words)

  
 News Release 4/2005: University of Texas at Austin professor wins prestigious international math prize
Caffarelli, 56, was recognized for his “important contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations.” The prize, which includes a $56,000 award, will be given to Caffarelli in October at a ceremony in Stockholm.
Previous winners of the Schock prize for mathematics are Elias Stein (1993), Andrew Wiles (1995), Mikio Sato (1997), Yuri Manin (1999), Elliott Lieb (2001) and Richard Stanley (2003).
Rolf Schock, a philosopher and artist who died in 1986, left money in his will for a prize to be awarded in such widely differing subjects as logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts and music.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2005/04/mathematics06.html   (463 words)

  
 Schock-Prizes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Two Americans, two Japanese and a German were awarded the 2005 Rolf Schock Prizes for their work in philosophy, mathematics, art and music, Sweden's royal academies announced Tuesday.
The prizes were created after Schock, who died in 1986, specified that half of his estate should be used to fund them.
Born in France in 1933, Schock emigrated to the United States and studied geology, psychology and mathematics at the University of New Mexico, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA.
www.cp.org /english/online/full/science/050405/g040516A.html   (243 words)

  
 Richard Stanley Receives the Schock Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Four Rolf Schock Prizes for 2003 have been awarded, two of them to mathematicians: SOLOMON FEFERMAN and RICHARD P.
The versatile philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933¨C1986) describes in his will a prize to be awarded in such widely differing subjects as logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts, and music.
The Schock Prize in Mathematics was awarded to Richard P.
www.combinatorics.net /news/Stanley/stanley-Schock.html   (439 words)

  
 SCHOCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 Rolf Schock - TheBestLinks.com - Doctor of Philosophy, France, Germany, Geology, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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 SCS News Releases
The $50,000 Schock prize and its accompanying citation were bestowed on Scott by Sweden~s Princess Christina.
The award Scott received is one of four international prizes created in 1993 with a bequest from the estate of the late logician and philosopher Rolf Schock, who was killed in an accident at age 56.
The prizes honor researchers in the areas of logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music--areas especially valued by Schock and which, incidentally, are not covered by the Nobel Prizes.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/copetas/www/public/pr/nov7-97.html   (1914 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Richard P. Stanley receives the 2003 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his fundamental contributions to combinatorics and its relationship to algebra and geometry, in particular for his important contributions to the theory of convex polytopes and his innovative work on enumerative combinatorics."
The versatile philosopher and artist Rolf Schock (1933-1986) describes in his will a prize to be awarded in such widely differing subjects as logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts and music.
www.combinatorics.net /news/Stanley/stanley-Schock2.htm   (378 words)

  
 Kaija Saariaho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
More recently, in 2000 she received both the Nordic Music Prize (for Lonh) and the Stoeger Award of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (in recognition of outstanding services to chamber music).
In 2001 Kaija Saariaho was awarded with the Rolf Schock Prize (Sweden) and the Kaske Prize (Germany).
Saariaho has also taken part in a number of multimedia productions such as the full-length ballet Maa (1991) and a pan-European collaborative project to produce a CD-ROM Prisma about her life and work.
www.uc.edu /CCM/musicx/Bios/kaija.html   (567 words)

  
 KAGEL awarded Rolf Schock Prize 2005
Awarded annually, the Schock Prizes honour figures from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music.
The awards are made by the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and are each worth SEK 400,000.
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 Schock prize -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Schock prize -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Schock Prizes were instituted by the will of (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher and (A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination) artist (additional info and facts about Rolf Schock) Rolf Schock (1933-1986).
The Prizes were first awarded in (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) Stockholm, (A Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula) Sweden, 1993 and have been awarded every two years since.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/schock_prize.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Elliott Lieb wins 2001 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics: Department of Physics, Princeton University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Elliott Lieb wins 2001 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics: Department of Physics, Princeton University
Professor Elliott H. Lieb was awarded the 2001 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his contribution to the mathematical understanding of the quantum mechanical many-body theory and for his work on exact solutions of models in statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
The prize will be presented by Her Royal Highness Princess Christina of Sweden on October 25, 2001 at the the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
pupgg.princeton.edu /www/jh/news/lieb_elliott_schock_prize.html   (312 words)

  
 Schock Prize to Mikio Sato
Professor Mikio Sato received the 1997 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics.
The prize diploma was conferred by Princess Christina of Sweden at a ceremony on October 23, 1997, in the Konserthuset in Stockholm.
Please step forward to receive the 1997 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics from the hands of Princess Christina.
www.math.uu.se /~kiselman/sato1997.html   (881 words)

  
 MyAuditions | Performing Arts Career Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Three Americans and a Swede were awarded the 2003 Rolf Schock Prizes Thursday for their work in logic, philosophy, mathematics, art, and music.
The winners will split the biannual 1.6 million kronor (US$200,000) prize, and will receive their awards Oct. 23 from Sweden's Princess Christina in the capital, Stockholm.
Born in France in 1933, Schock emigrated to the United States and studied geology, psychology and mathematics at the University of New Mexico, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and U.C.L.A. He moved to Sweden in 1964 where he received philosophy degrees from Stockholm University and Uppsala University.
www.myauditions.com /news/articles/51503_sofie.htm   (235 words)

  
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The prize is being given to Kripke "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity," according to a news release from the Schock Foundation.
Elliott Lieb, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and professor of mathematical physics, has been selected to receive the 2001 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics.
A news release from the Schock Foundation cited Lieb for his "pioneering contributions in many areas of mathematics, particularly mathematical analysis and mathematical physics." It said, "Lieb's scientific production is characterized by clarity and originality."
www.princeton.edu /webannounce/Princeton_Announcements/Archived/2001/JUN_Text.html_backup   (2098 words)

  
 Newsmakers
A tribute to Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary magazine, this award is given annually to the Harvard University students who submit the best essays, feature articles, or short stories on a Jewish theme.
John Rawls, James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
Samuel C. Butler, former presiding partner of the law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore, was awarded the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) Award during ceremonies on Wednesday, June 9.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1999/06.17/news.html   (222 words)

  
 schock - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 Archived Weblog Entry - 04/26/2005: "Fermat's last theorem - color it solved"
He was awarded the Schock Prize in Mathematics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Prix Fermat from the Université Paul Sabatier.
In 1996 he received further awards included the Wolf Prize and was elected as a foreign member to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, receiving its mathematics prize.
The Prizes were first awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, 1993 and have been awarded every two years since.
www.grand-challenge.net /archives/00000030.html   (600 words)

  
 Adjunct Faculty • Department of Philosophy at Boston University
A comprehensive examination of his thought appeared in 2006 as the volume The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka in the series Library of Living Philosophers.
Most recently, he has been awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy (2005) for his pioneering contributions to the logical analysis for modal concepts, in particular the concepts of knowledge and belief.
Hintikka regularly teaches graduate level courses on a variety of topics including the philosophy of language, contemporary philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, Aristotle, Continental Rationalism, Wittgenstein, and epistemology.
www.bu.edu /philo/faculty/hintikka.html   (277 words)

  
 Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 6/18/01 - Briefs
Two Princeton faculty members have been selected to receive the 2001 Rolf Schock Prize.
Saul Kripke, the McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, has been chosen for the Schock Prize for Logic and Philosophy.
He is being recognized "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity," according to a news release from the Schock Foundation.
www.princeton.edu /~compub/pwb/01/0618/3briefs.shtml   (569 words)

  
 Rolf Schock Prize Winners : University of Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Rolf Schock Prize Winners : University of Oxford
Excluded from this list are those Schock Laureates whose only connection with Oxford is that they were awarded an honorary degree by the University.
LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY, for his book A Theory of Justice, which has constituted a renewal of normative ethics and political philosophy and has in an essential way contributed to the methodology of normative ethics
www.ox.ac.uk /aboutoxford/awardwinners/schock.shtml   (215 words)

  
 Cabrillo Music: festival at a glance
Kronos performs annually in many cities and tours extensively with more than 100 concerts each year in concert halls, clubs and at jazz festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico, South America, Russia, Asia and Australia.
Kronos has won numerous international awards, including three Edison Prizes (Netherlands), Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (Germany), Rolf Schock Prize in Music (Sweden), eight ASCAP/Chamber Music America Awards for Adventurous Programming (United States), Australian Broadcasting Company Classic FM Best International Recording of the Year (Australia), Le Diapason d'Or de Mai (France) and others.
The Quartet records exclusively for Nonesuch Records and the group's recorded performances have been heard throughout the world on radio and television, in films and in live dance and theater performances.
www.cabrillomusic.org /2004/a-kronos.html   (265 words)

  
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The exhibition is currently on display at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam (22 January-08 May 2005) and will then travel to Tate Modern London (01 June-28 August 2005).
The numerous prizes awarded the firm since 1987 include the Deutscher Kritikerpreis (1993), the Max Beckmann Award (1996), the Rolf Schock Prize for the Visual Arts (1999), and the Prix Equerre d’Argent (2001).
In 2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for their complete works.
www.thinker.org /deyoung/about/subpage.asp?subpagekey=42&relatedsubpagekey=41   (352 words)

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