Present: Leadership - Changing Our World

Dr. Klaus Schwab is honored for his role in developing the World Economic Forum (WEF) into a major international organization.

Future: Brain Sciences

Robert Wurtz has made one of the most salient discoveries in cognitive neurosciences - he discovered how the brain processes different aspects of the visual scene in different places.

Past: Cities - Historical Legacy

Rome has made important contributions to humanity with its jurisprudence, its language and the importance of its historical legacy, all of which have influenced civilization throughout the centuries.

Future: Brain Sciences

Dr. William T. Newsome bridges the fields of neurophysiology and perceptual psychology, demonstrated the correlation between certain brain cells and the process of visual perception.

Present: Print and Electronic Media

Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking.

Present: Print and Electronic Media

James Nachtwey dedicated his life to documenting war, famine, man's inhumanity to man and the plight of the disenfranchised all over the world.

Future: Cosmology and Astronomy

John Bahcall made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different areas of modern astrophysics.

Past: Paleoanthropology

In 2002, Michel Brunet discovered in Chad an almost complete cranium of the oldest human ancestor: Sahelanthropus tchadensis (nicknamed Toumai).

Present: Technology, Information and Society

Inventor, scientist and computer designer, W. Daniel Hillis is renowned for pioneering the concept of massively parallel computers.

Future: Life Sciences

Sir John Sulston was a leader in human genome research, best known for his work on cell lineage and genome of the worm C. elegans.

Future: Life Sciences

Robert H. Waterston is best known for his work on the Human Genome Project, for which he was a pioneer.

Future: Life Sciences

Sydney Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology, including the discovery of messenger RNA.