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It is possible that there is a connection between the forecast that predicts a doubling of the world's biotechnology industry to $100 billion within five to six years - and a new international prize of $1 million that will be presented in the coming years to scientists who will excel especially in this new field as well as in nanotechnology, astrophysics and neuroscience. Since the Nobel prizes in science do not "cover" these new fields - a Norwegian philanthropist, Fred Coyle, who made his fortune in California manufacturing sensors for airplanes - decided to establish a global fund to award the annual prizes in these fields. The first scientists to benefit from the new prize will be crowned in 2008.
The initiators believe that the "Coyle Prize" - the "modern Nobel" - will better express contemporary research in fields that will affect all of humanity in the years to come. It is a fact, for example, that biotechnology is changing and changing agriculture even more, as well as the entire pharmaceutical industry. Nanotechnology - everything that concerns the field of devices and equipment minimized to the dimensions of the billionth part of a meter - is only in its infancy, but there is no longer any doubt that its products will enter every area of human life in the years to come. And also into his body - to contribute to improving his health.
Nobel Prizes are currently given for research in physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature and peace - when in practice the prize winners are recognized for their work even many decades after they were published. The initiators of the new award believe that it will introduce freshness in science and technology.
It is worth emphasizing that the new award joins a series of international awards in the fields of science that are currently given in their world and that bring glory and honor to the researchers. Among these are also three prizes given in Israel - the Wolf Prize, (it is said that whoever wins it is almost automatically upgraded to a nomination for the Nobel Prize), the Dan David Prize on behalf of Tel Aviv University and the A.M.T.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics, also randomly awards prizes in other fields, such as the Gregory Aminoff Prize for Crystallography Research and the Krapod Prize in the field of research dealing with various multiple sclerosis diseases (multiple sclerosis, arthritis, muscular dystrophy, etc.) - where the amount of the last prize is half a million dollars.
In mathematics - "the mother of the sciences" - the situation is strange: the most prestigious award is called the "Fields Medal". It bears the name of a Canadian mathematician. The prize for the winner every year - only 12 thousand dollars. Another prize in the global competition called "Clay Problems" - for solving seven of the most complicated mathematical problems there is is 1 million dollars.
The largest financial prize in the world in the scientific-technological field is the "X Prize" - in the amount of 10 million dollars and it was given last October for the first time to the designers of the first space plane built by a private company, the "Space-Ship-1-" SpaceShipOne). Part of it was donated by Bill Gates' partner in founding Microsoft, Paul Allen - one of the top five billionaires in the world.
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