List of Eni award winners include Nobel laureates like Harold W. Kroto and Alan Heeger.
The annual Eni award was launched in July 2007, foreseen by the group’s Technological Master Plan.
[3] The award’s Scientific Committee – which has the role of evaluating the candidates and assigning the prizes, is of the highest level and comprises researchers and scientists from some of the world’s most advanced research institutes, and includes Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize 1987 for Chemistry.
In subsequent years, 78 researchers from 20 countries have been awarded: Italy, Germany, US, Australia, France, Canada, Spain, Norway, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, Israel, Sweden, South Korea, India, Egypt, South Africa, Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
[5] The distinguished representatives of the international scientific community who have received the Eni award in the past include Sir Harold W. Kroto, Nobel Prize winner in 1996 for Chemistry; Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Prize 2000 for Chemistry; and Theodor W. Hänsch, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics.