Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication

Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication
Awarded for Recognizes the work of those helping to promote the public awareness of science through different disciplines such as music, arts and cinema.
Presented by Starmus Festival
First awarded 2015
Website https://www.starmus.com/stephen-hawking-medals-for-science-communication/

The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication is an honor bestowed by the Starmus Festival to individuals in science and the arts to recognize the work of those helping to promote the public awareness of science.

History

The Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication was initially announced on December 16, 2015 at the Royal Society in London, by a panel including Professor Stephen Hawking, the Starmus founding director Professor Garik Israelian, Dr. Brian May, Professor Richard Dawkins, Alexei Leonov and Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto.

The Stephen Hawking Medals will award Science Communicator of the Year in three categories:

  • Scientific community
  • Artistic community
  • Film community

The first Stephen Hawking Medals for Science Communication was awarded at the third Starmus Festival in June 2016. It was presented by Stephen Hawking himself.

Professor Hawking said of the award:

By engaging with everyone from school children to politicians to pensioners, science communicators put science right at the heart of daily life. Bringing science to the people brings people into science. This matters to me, to you, to the world as a whole.[1]

The medal

The design of the medal used a portrait of Professor Hawking by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk and member of the Advisory Council Starmus since its first edition. The other side combines the image of Alexei Leonov of the first spacewalk and the iconic guitar – the “Red Special” – to demonstrate music, another major component of the Starmus Festival. [2]

Recipients

2016

2017

References

  1. ↑ https://www.starmus.com/stephen-hawking-medals-for-science-communication
  2. ↑ https://www.starmus.com/stephen-hawking-medal-for-science-communication
  3. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/16/winners-of-inaugural-stephen-hawking-medal-announced-hans-zimmer-jim-al-khalili-particle-fever
  4. ↑ https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stephen-hawking-medal
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