Latsis Foundation
The Latsis Foundation (French: Fondation Latsis internationale) is a charitable foundation, founded in 1975 by the Greek shipping magnate John Latsis.
Amongst other prizes and symposia, it funds the University Latsis Prizes (awarded by the University of Geneva, the University of St. Gallen, the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the ETH Zurich), the Swiss Latsis Prize (awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) and the European Latsis Prize (awarded by the European Science Foundation) until 2012.
It has endowed the Lakatos Award. The foundation is based in Geneva.
Notes and references
gollark: When big companies try and be funny or ironic or whatever on social media, I always wonder if there's some actual human managing the account who thinks it's funny, or a team of marketing professionals trying to ruthlessly optimize humor value to appeal to social media users.
gollark: Well, to some extent, sure.
gollark: It has its own exciting problems too, though.
gollark: That... doesn't really improve the rest of it.
gollark: The compact message display mode?
See also
- Prizes named after people
- Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- Marcel Benoist Prize
External links
- National Latsis-Prize page at Swiss National Science Foundation website
- Symposium Latsis EPFL page at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne website
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