Spinoza Prize

The Spinoza Prize (Dutch: Spinozapremie) is an annual award of 1.5 million euro prize money, to be spent on new research given by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

It is named after the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza.

[1] The prize is awarded to researchers in the Netherlands who belong to the best in their field.

[2] Academics can nominate each other and an international commission evaluates the submissions.

It is sometimes referred to as the Dutch Nobel Prize.

2017 Prize Ceremony
Spinoza Prize winners 2006: Jan Zaanen , Ben Scheres , Jozien Bensing and Carl Figdor . On the far right is NWO director Peter Nijkamp .