With the Académie des Sciences in 2015

AVEC L’ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES

2015

Franco-Taiwanese Scientific Great Prize

Created by the Franco-Taiwanese Science Foundation, created between the Académie des Sciences and the National Science

Council of Taiwan on 10 February 2003, this Prize is awarded every year to French or Taiwanese researchers for their contributions

to scientific research projects of interest to both sides. The laureates should commit themselves to catalyzing scientific exchanges

between both sides, which may organize conferences and colloquia in this view. The Prize amounts to €38,200.

2015 Laureates: Monique Combescot, Paris Institute of Nanoscience, Université Pierre et Marie

Curie (UPMC), Paris, and Yia-Chung Chang, Academia Sinica Research Center for Applied Sciences,

Taipei.

Franco-Chinese Prize

Amounting to €15,000, this prize was created by the Académie des Sciences on the occasion of the 50

anniversary of the resumption

of Franco-Chinese diplomatic relations.

2015 Laureates: Zhong Qun Tian, codirector of the nano-biology international laboratory XiamENS, Paris,

and Xi Li, professor at Shanghai University.

French-American Richard Lounsbery Prize

Created in 1978 by Vera Lounsbery in memory of her husband, this prize is placed

under the patronage of both the Académie des Sciences and the US National Acad-

emy of Sciences. Alternately bestowed to a French and an American researcher, it

is endowed with $50,000, plus $20,000 to cover the laureate’s potential stay in a

laboratory of the other country.

2015 Laureate: Hopi Hoekstra, researcher at

Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

for his work on the genetic mechanisms of behavioural adaptation during

evolution.