BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

{{short description|International award programme}}

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards ({{Langx|es|Premios Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento}}) are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The categories that make up the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards respond to the knowledge map of the present age. As well as the fundamental knowledge that is at their core, they address developments in information and communication technologies, and interactions between biology and medicine, ecology and conservation biology, climate change, economics, humanities and social sciences, and, finally, contemporary musical creation and performance. Specific categories are reserved for developing knowledge fields of critical relevance to confront central challenges of the 21st century, as in the case of the two environmental awards.

The awards were established in 2008, with the first set of winners receiving their prizes in 2009. The BBVA Foundation – belonging to financial group BBVA – is partnered in the scheme by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the country's premier public research organization.

Categories

There are eight award categories: basic science, biology and biomedicine, climate change, ecology and conservation biology, information and communications technologies, economics, finance and management, music and opera, humanities and social sciences (a new category in the 11th edition). Previously, in the first 10 editions, there was a category in development cooperation.

=Juries=

Eight juries, one for each category, analyze the nominations put forward by international academic and research institutions.{{cite news|title=Hemos perdido el tiempo con el cambio climático|url=http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2014/01/29/actualidad/1391025915_173245.html|access-date=4 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=January 29, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Rivera|first1=Alicia|title=El sistema de ciencia español no responde a las necesidades del siglo XXI|url=http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2014/02/11/actualidad/1392154716_227536.html|access-date=4 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=February 11, 2014}}

To reach their decision, the juries meet during January and February in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation.

The day after the jury's decision, the name of the winners(s) and the achievements that earned them the award are revealed at an announcement event in the same location.

Ceremony

The awards are presented in June each year at a ceremony held, from the 11th edition, in the Euskalduna Palace at Bilbao, in the Basque Country.{{cite news|title=Entrega de los premios Fronteras de la Fundación BBVA|url=http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2010/06/23/actualidad/1277244008_850215.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=June 10, 2010}}{{cite news|last1=Guerrero|first1=Teresa|title=Diez sabios defienden la ciencia frente a la crisis|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/06/20/ciencia/1371748973.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=June 21, 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Corral|first1=Miguel G.|title=Ante la crisis, más ciencia|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/22/ciencia/1340356913.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=June 22, 2012}}{{cite news|title=La Fundación BBVA entrega sus premios Fronteras del Conocimiento|url=http://www.abc.es/hemeroteca/premios+fronteras+del+conocimiento|access-date=5 February 2015|publisher=ABC|date=June 17, 2014}}

BBVA Foundation

The BBVA Foundation engages in the promotion of research, advanced training and the transmission of knowledge to society, focusing on the emerging issues of the 21st century in five areas: Environment, Biomedicine and Health, Economy and Society, Basic Sciences and Technology, and Arts and Humanities. The BBVA Foundation designs, develops and finances research projects in these areas; facilitates advanced specialist training through grants, courses, seminars and workshops; organizes award schemes for researchers and professionals whose work has contributed significantly to the advancement of knowledge; and communicates and disseminates such new knowledge through publications, databases, lecture series, debates, exhibitions and audiovisual and electronic media.{{cite news|title=La Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando premia a la Fundación BBVA|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/12/10/actualidad/1355171259_720852.html|access-date=2 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=January 12, 2012}}{{cite news|title=La ciencia vale la pena|url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/2012/06/22/pagina-26/89884335/pdf.html?search=Fundacion%20BBVA|access-date=2 February 2015|newspaper=La Vanguardia|date=June 22, 2012}}

Prizes

Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative artwork, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per category. Awards may not be granted posthumously, and when an award is shared, its monetary amount is divided equally among the recipients.

The commemorative artwork is created by Madrid sculptor Blanca Muñoz, B.A. in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Holder of scholarships at Calcografia Nazionale (1989), awarded by the Italian Government, at the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (1990), and in Mexico City (1992), awarded by the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs, her numerous distinctions include the 1999 National Print Prize.

As of 2023, 22 BBVA Foundation laureates have also won the Nobel Prize.

=Laureates=

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! style="width:6%" |Year

! Category

! style="width:30%" | Laureate

! style="width:25%" | Nationality

! Nobel Prize

rowspan="10" | 2008

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Ignacio Cirac

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

Peter Zoller

|{{Flagu|Austria}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| Joan Massagué

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

Climate Change

| Wallace S. Broecker

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="2" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Thomas Lovejoy

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

William Laurance

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Jacob Ziv

|{{Flagu|Israel}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Jean Tirole

| {{Flagu|France}}

| Economic Sciences 2014

Development Cooperation

| Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Arts

| Steven Holl

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="10" | 2009

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Richard Zare

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Michael Fisher

|{{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| Robert Lefkowitz

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Chemistry 2012

Climate Change

| Klaus Hasselmann

| {{Flagu|Germany}}

| Physics 2021

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Peter B. Reich

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Thomas Kailath

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="2" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Andreu Mas-Colell

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

Hugo F. Sonnenschein

|{{Flagu|United States}}

|

Development Cooperation

| Development Research Institute

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Cristóbal Halffter

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

rowspan="8" | 2010

| Basic Sciences

| Gabor A. Somorjai

| {{Flagu|United States}} {{Flagu|Hungary}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| Shinya Yamanaka

| {{Flagu|Japan}}

| Physiology 2012

Climate Change

| Nicholas Stern

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Edward Osborne Wilson

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Donald Knuth

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Lars Peter Hansen

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2013

Development Cooperation

| International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

| {{Flagu|Finland}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Helmut Lachenmann

| {{Flagu|Germany}}

|

rowspan="9" | 2011

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Michel Mayor

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Switzerland}}

| rowspan="2" | Physics 2019

Didier Queloz
Biology and Biomedicine

| Alexander Varshavsky

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Climate Change

| Isaac Held

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Daniel H. Janzen

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Carver Mead

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Angus Deaton

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

| Economic Sciences 2015

Development Cooperation

| Ciro de Quadros

| {{Flagu|Brazil}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Salvatore Sciarrino

| {{Flagu|Italy}}

|

rowspan="10" | 2012

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Ingrid Daubechies{{cite news|last1=Soto|first1=A.|title=Los matemáticos Ingrid Daubechies9-url=https://archive.today/20150205113423/http://sevilla.abc.es/sociedad/20130122/rc-matematicos-ingrid-daubechies-david-201301221330.html|publisher=ABC|date=January 22, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|Belgium}}

|

David Mumford{{cite news|last1=Corral|first1=Miguel G.|title=Premio Fronteras a los matemáticos clave para la robótica y el audio y vídeo|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/01/22/ciencia/1358873159.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=January 25, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

rowspan="2" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Douglas Coleman{{cite news|last1=Tobella|first1=Alba|title=Premio a los descubridores de la hormona que regula el apetito|url=http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2013/01/29/actualidad/1359467238_652215.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=January 29, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Jeffrey Friedman{{cite news|last1=Díaz Landaluce|first1=Ixone|title=La obesidad está en el cerebro, no en el plato|url=http://www.abc.es/ciencia/20130617/abci-obesidad-esta-cerebro-plato-201306171000.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=XL Semanal|date=June 17, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Climate Change

| Susan Solomon{{cite news|last1=López|first1=Celeste|title=Llegaremos a tiempo de parar el cambio climático|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/20131227/54398582404/entrevista-susan-solomon-cambio-climatico-magazine.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=Magazine La Vanguardia|date=December 27, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Jane Lubchenco{{cite news|last1=López Rejas|first1=Javier|title=Jane Lubchenco "Los océanos se hallan en un grave deterioro"|url=http://www.elcultural.es/revista/ciencia/Jane-Lubchenco/32959|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Cultural|date=June 14, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Lotfi A. Zadeh{{cite news|last1=Peirón|first1=Francesc|title=Hoy todo se convierte en dinero|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20130614/54375574754/lofti-zadeh-entrevista-magazine.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=La Vanguardia|date=June 14, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|Azerbaijan}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Paul Milgrom{{cite news|last1=Matos Elices|first1=María|title=Pocos economistas van de lo concreto a lo de mayor alcance|url=http://cincodias.com/cincodias/2013/06/20/empresas/1371721680_824211.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=Cinco Días|date=June 20, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2020

Development Cooperation

| DNDi{{cite news|title=La fundación 'Medicamentos para enfermedades olvidadas' recibe el premio BBVA|url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundosalud/2013/02/26/noticias/1361877862.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=February 26, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|Switzerland}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Pierre Boulez{{cite news|last1=Verdú|first1=Daniel|title=Me decepciona que el arte moderno esté más expuesto que la música|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/02/26/actualidad/1361905135_958061.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=February 26, 2013}}

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

rowspan="10" | 2013

| rowspan="3" | Basic Sciences

| Maximilian Haider{{cite news|title=El microscopio de precisión subatómica, premio Fronteras del Conocimiento|url=http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2014/01/21/actualidad/1390309382_434940.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=January 21, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|Austria}}

|

Harald Rose{{cite news|last1=López Rejas|first1=Javier|title=Los avances técnicos del microscopio electrónico, Premio Fundación BBVA|url=http://www.elcultural.es/noticias/ciencia/Los-avances-tecnicos-del-microscopio-electronico-Premio-Fundacion-BBVA/5816|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Cultural|date=January 21, 2014}}

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Germany}}

|

Knut Urban{{cite news|last1=López Rejas|first1=Javier|title=Knut Urban: "Los átomos han dejado de ser un campo exótico"|url=http://www.elcultural.es/revista/ciencia/Knut-Urban-Los-atomos-han-dejado-de-ser-un-campo-exotico/34564|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Cultural|date=May 2, 2014}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| Adrian Bird{{cite news|last1=Sánchez-Monge|first1=María|title=Adrian Bird: "Soy como un hereje de la epigenética"|url=http://www.diariomedico.com/2014/06/23/area-cientifica/especialidades/genetica/soy-como-hereje-epigenetica|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=Diario Médico|date=June 23, 2014|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923214520/http://www.diariomedico.com/2014/06/23/area-cientifica/especialidades/genetica/soy-como-hereje-epigenetica|url-status=dead}}

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Climate Change

| Christopher Field{{cite news|last1=Fresneda|first1=Carlos|title='Es fantástico que Obama obligue a reducir las emisiones de CO2'|url=http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2014/06/04/538e142822601d18508b4583.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=June 4, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Paul R. Ehrlich{{cite news|title=Fundación BBVA premia a Paul Ehrlich por sus estudios sobre biodiversidad|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20140204/54399892220/fundacion-bbva-premia-a-ehrlich-por-sus-investigaciones-sobre-biodiversidad.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=La Vanguardia|date=February 4, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Marvin Minsky{{cite news|last1=Elola|first1=Joseba|title=Nadie está al frente del planeta|url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/08/29/actualidad/1409308709_665686.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=August 31, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Elhanan Helpman{{cite news|last1=Cymerman|first1=Henrique|title=Es probable que veamos más protestas y más presión para que se hagan cambios|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/magazine/20140613/54409763142/entrevista-elhanan-helpman-israel-europa-economia-magazine.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=Magazine La Vanguardia|date=June 13, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|Israel}}

|

Development Cooperation

| Pratham{{cite news|last1=Resino|first1=Marta|title=La ONG Pratham, galardonada por educar a 33 millones de niños en la India|url=http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/02/25/530c8dd2268e3e7c4a8b4571.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=February 25, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|India}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Steve Reich{{cite news|last1=Ojeda|first1=Alberto|title=Steve Reich: "Los minimalistas abrimos las ventanas de los auditorios"|url=http://www.elcultural.es/revista/escenarios/Steve-Reich-Los-minimalistas-abrimos-las-ventanas-de-los-auditorios/34837|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Cultural|date=June 13, 2014}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="11" | 2014

| Basic Sciences

| Stephen Buchwald{{cite news|author1=BBVA|title=The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes to Stephen Buchwald for creating more efficient, stable, broad-spectrum catalysts of importance in drug discovery|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/20/bbva-buchwald-idUSnPn3wDPbY+8d+PRN20150120|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204130336/http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/20/bbva-buchwald-idUSnPn3wDPbY+8d+PRN20150120|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2015|access-date=26 January 2015|publisher=Reuters|date=20 January 2015|format=press release}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Joseph Schlessinger{{cite news|title=La Fundación BBVA premia a tres investigadores por el tratamiento personalizado del cáncer|url=http://www.expansion.com/2015/01/27/entorno/1422361375.html|access-date=2 February 2015|newspaper=Expansión|date=January 15, 2015}}

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Charles Sawyers{{cite news|title=Los pioneros del tratamiento personalizado del cáncer, premio Fundación BBVA|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20150127/54424016736/los-pioneros-del-tratamiento-personalizado-del-cancer-premio-fundacion-bbva.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=La Vanguardia|date=January 27, 2014}}

|

Tony Hunter{{cite news|title=Medicina personalizada contra el cáncer|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/02/04/buenavida/1423064348_568607.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El País |date=February 4, 2015}}

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Climate Change

| Richard Alley{{cite news|last1=Acosta|first1=A.|title=El glaciólogo Richard Alley, premio Fronteras del Conocimiento de Cambio Climático|url=http://www.abc.es/sociedad/20150109/abci-richard-alley-premio-bbva-201501091333.html|access-date=5 February 2015|publisher=ABC|date=January 9, 2015}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| David Tilman{{cite news|last1=Mosquera|first1=Eva|title=Premio al pionero que demostró el valor de la biodiversidad|url=http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia/2015/02/03/54d0c962268e3e301e8b458e.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=El Mundo|date=February 3, 2015}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Leonard Kleinrock{{cite news|title=El artífice de la primera conexión de datos en internet, Premio Fundación BBVA|url=http://www.lavanguardia.com/tecnologia/20150113/54423316976/el-artifice-de-la-primera-conexion-de-datos-en-internet-premio-fundacion-bbva.html|access-date=5 February 2015|newspaper=La Vanguardia|date=January 13, 2015}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="2" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Richard Blundell

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

David Card

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

| Economic Sciences 2021

Development Cooperation

| Helen Keller International

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Contemporary Music

| György Kurtág{{cite news|last1=Leticia|first1=Yustos|title=György Kurtág premio Fundación BBVA Fronteras del Conocimiento en la especialidad de música contemporánea|url=http://www.docenotas.com/121656/gyorgy-kurtag-premio-fundacion-bbva-fronteras-del-conocimiento-en-la-especialidad-de-musica-contemporanea/|access-date=11 February 2015|newspaper=Doce Notas|date=February 10, 2015}}

| {{Flagu|Hungary}}

|

rowspan="11" | 2015

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Stephen Hawking

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Viatcheslav Mukhanov

| {{Flagu|Germany}}

|

rowspan="3" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Edward Boyden

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Karl Deisseroth

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Gero Miesenböck

| {{Flagu|Austria}}

|

Climate Change

| Veerabhadran Ramanathan

| {{Flagu|India}}

|

Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Ilkka Hanski

| {{Flagu|Finland}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Stephen Cook

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Robert Wilson

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2020

Development Cooperation

| Martin Ravallion

| {{Flagu|Australia}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Georges Aperghis

| {{Flagu|Greece}}

|

rowspan="14" | 2016

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| David Cox

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Bradley Efron

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Emmanuelle Charpentier

| {{Flagu|France}}

| Chemistry 2020

Jennifer Doudna

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Chemistry 2020

Francisco Mojica

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

rowspan="2" | Climate Change

| James Hansen

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Syukuro Manabe

| {{Flagu|Japan}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

| Physics 2021

rowspan="2" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Gene E. Likens

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Marten Scheffer

| {{Flagu|Netherlands}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Geoffrey Hinton

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Daron Acemoglu

| {{Flagu|Turkey}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2024

rowspan="2" | Development Cooperation

| Peter J. Myler

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Pedro L. Alonso

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Sofia Gubaidulina

| {{Flagu|Russia}}

|

rowspan="14" | 2017

| Basic Sciences

| Omar M. Yaghi

| {{Flagu|Jordan}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| James P. Allison

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Medicine 2018

Climate Change

| William Nordhaus

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2018

rowspan="2" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Rosemary Grant

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

| Peter Grant

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

rowspan="4" | Information and Communication Technologies

| Shafi Goldwasser

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ronald Rivest

|

Silvio Micali

| {{Flagu|Italy}}

|

Adi Shamir

| {{Flagu|Israel}}

|

rowspan="3" |Economics, Finance and Management

|Robert Porter

|{{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Ariel Pakes

|{{Flagu|Canada}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Timothy Bresnahan

|{{Flagu|United States}}

|

Development Cooperation

| Nubia Muñoz

| {{Flagu|Colombia}}

|

Contemporary Music

| Kaija Saariaho

| {{Flagu|Finland}}

|

rowspan="12" | 2018

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Charles L. Kane{{cite news |title=La Fundación BBVA premia a los descubridores de los aislantes topológicos |url=https://www.lasexta.com/tecnologia-tecnoxplora/sinc/fundacion-bbva-premia-descubridores-aislantes-topologicos_201903055c7e8ed40cf2948a08f94ffe.html |publisher=La Sexta TV |date=5 March 2019}}

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Eugene J. Mele{{cite news |title=Los físicos Charles Kane y Eugene Mele, premiados por Fundación BBVA por descubrir los aislantes topológicos |url=https://www.europapress.es/ciencia/noticia-fisicos-charles-kane-eugene-mele-premiados-fundacion-bbva-descubrir-aislantes-topologicos-20190305131512.html |newspaper=Europa Press |date=5 March 2019}}

|

Biology and Biomedicine

| Jeffrey I. Gordon[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ Laureates 2018]{{cite news|last1=Del Corral|first1=Pedro|title=El investigador que descubrió que las bacterias intestinales no son enemigas|url=https://www.larazon.es/sociedad/el-investigador-que-descubrio-que-las-bacterias-intestinales-no-son-enemigas-NN21685811|newspaper=Diario La Razón|date=29 January 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" | Climate Change

| Anny Cazenave{{cite news|last1=Portillo|first1=Javier|title=Anny Cazenave: "El aumento del nivel del mar está cambiado la forma de la Tierra"|url=https://elpais.com/sociedad/2019/01/28/actualidad/1548674189_669064.html|newspaper=Diario El País|date=30 January 2019}}

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

John A. Church{{cite news|last1=Díaz|first1=Raquel|title=Premio a los pioneros en la detección del aumento del nivel del mar por el cambio climático|url=https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2019/01/09/5c362db9fdddff975c8b4746.html|newspaper=Diario El Mundo|date=9 January 2019}}

| {{Flagu|Australia}}

|

Jonathan M. Gregory{{cite news |title=Cazenave, Church y Gregory, Premio Fronteras Conocimiento en Cambio Climático |url=https://www.efeverde.com/noticias/investigadores-premio-fronteras-conocimiento-cambio-climatico |issue=EFE Verde |date=9 January 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

rowspan="2" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Gretchen Daily{{cite news|last1=Portillo|first1=Javier|title=Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento para las profesoras Daily y Mace, revolucionarias de la ecología|url=https://elpais.com/sociedad/2019/02/05/actualidad/1549372404_889326.html|newspaper=Diario El País|date=5 February 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Georgina Mace{{cite news|last1=Díaz|first1=Raquel|title=La Fundación BBVA premia a las visionarias que cuantificaron el valor de la naturaleza|url=https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2019/02/05/5c59a3befdddff69148b45c6.html|newspaper=Diario El Mundo|date=5 February 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Ivan Sutherland{{cite news |title=Ivan Sutherland, el "padre de la computación gráfica" que revolucionó nuestra interacción con las máquinas |url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-47393964 |publisher=BBC News |date=2 March 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Claudia Goldin{{cite web |title=La fundación BBVA premia a Claudia Goldin por su análisis de la brecha de género |date=26 March 2019 |url=https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2019/03/26/5c9a2a47fdddff0d0b8b4644.html |newspaper=El Mundo |access-date=27 March 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2023

Humanities and Social Sciences

| Noam Chomsky{{cite news |last1=Ruiz Mantilla |first1=Jesús |title=Noam Chomsky consigue el Premio Fronteras del Conocimiento |url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/04/16/actualidad/1555415692_405802.html |newspaper=El País |date=16 April 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Music and Opera

| John Adams{{cite news |last1=Bravo |first1=Julio |title=John Adams: "Nadie puede vivir sin música" |url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/musica/abci-john-adams-nadie-puede-vivir-sin-musica-201904091631_noticia.html|publisher=ABC|date=10 March 2019}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="17" | 2019

| rowspan="3" |Basic Sciences

| Gilles Brassard

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Charles H. Bennett

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Peter Shor

|

rowspan="2" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Michael N. Hall

| {{Flagu|United States}} / {{Flagu|Switzerland}}

|

David M. Sabatini

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Climate Change

| Kerry A. Emanuel

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" |Ecology and Conservation Biology

|Daniel Pauly

|{{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Terence Hughes

|{{Flagu|Ireland}} / {{Flagu|Australia}}

|

Carlos M. Duarte

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

rowspan="3" | Information and Communications Technology

| Isabelle Guyon

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

Bernhard Schölkopf

| {{Flagu|Germany}}

|

Vladimir Vapnik

| {{Flagu|Russia}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="2" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Philippe Aghion

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

Peter W. Howitt

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

rowspan="2" | Humanities and Social Cognition

| Susan Fiske

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Shelley E. Taylor

|

Music and Opera

| Arvo Pärt

| {{Flagu|Estonia}}

|

rowspan="18" | 2020

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Paul Alivisatos

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Michael Grätzel

| {{Flagu|Switzerland}}

|

rowspan="2" | Biology and Biomedicine

| David Julius

| {{Flagu|United States}}

| Medicine 2021

Ardem Patapoutian

| {{Flagu|Lebanon}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

| Medicine 2021

rowspan="3" | Climate Change

| Neil Adger[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/ Laureates 2020]

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Ian Burton

|

Karen O'Brien

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Sandra Díaz

| {{Flagu|Argentina}}

|

Sandra Lavorel

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

Mark Westoby

| {{Flagu|Australia}}

|

rowspan="2" | Information and Communications Technology

| John L. Hennessy

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

David A. Patterson

|

rowspan="4" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Ben Bernanke

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

| Economic Sciences 2022

Mark Gertler

|

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

| {{Flagu|Japan}}

|

John Moore

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Humanities and Social Sciences

|Gerald Holton

|{{Flagu|Austria}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Music and Opera

|Peter Eötvös

|{{Flagu|Hungary}}

|

rowspan="14" | 2021

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Charles Fefferman

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Jean-François Le Gall

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

rowspan="3" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Katalin Kariko

| {{Flagu|Hungary}}

|Medicine 2023

Drew Weissman

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|Medicine 2023

Robert S. Langer

|

rowspan="2" | Climate Change

| Lonnie G. Thompson

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Ellen Mosley-Thompson

|

rowspan="3" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Lenore Fahrig

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Simon Levin

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Steward Pickett

|

Information and Communications Technology

| Judea Pearl

| {{Flagu|Israel}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Matthew O. Jackson

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Humanities and Social Sciences

| Mark Granovetter{{Cite web|url=https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the-frontiers-award-goes-to-mark-granovetter-for-discovering-the-importance-of-an-extended-network-of-acquaintances-in-economic-and-social-life/|title=The Frontiers Award goes to Mark Granovetter for discovering the importance of an extended network of "acquaintances" in economic and social life|date=6 April 2022}}

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Music and Opera

| Philip Glass

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="18" | 2022

| rowspan="3" | Basic Sciences

| Paul Corkum

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Ferenc Krausz

| {{Flagu|Hungary}} / {{Flagu|Germany}}

|Physics 2023

Anne L’Huillier

| {{Flagu|France}} / {{Flagu|Sweden}}

|Physics 2023

rowspan="3" | Biology and Biomedicine

| David Baker

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|Chemistry 2024

John Jumper

|Chemistry 2024

Demis Hassabis

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|Chemistry 2024

rowspan="2" | Climate Change

| Ellen Thomas

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

James Zachos

|

rowspan="3" | Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Susan Alberts

| rowspan="3" | {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Jeanne Altmann

|

Marlene Zuk

|

Information and Communications Technology

| Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

| {{Flagu|Italy}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="3" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Timothy J. Besley

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Torsten Persson

| {{Flagu|Sweden}}

|

Guido Tabellini

| {{Flagu|Italy}}

|

rowspan="2" | Humanities and Social Sciences

| Steven Pinker

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Peter Singer

| {{Flagu|Australia}}

|

Music and Opera

| Thomas Adès

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

rowspan="17" | 2023

| rowspan="2" | Basic Sciences

| Claire Voisin

| {{Flagu|France}}

|

Yakov Eliashberg

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="4" | Biology and Biomedicine

| Franz-Ulrich Hartl

| {{Flagu|Germany}}

|

Arthur L. Horwich

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Kazutoshi Mori

| {{Flagu|Japan}}

|

Peter Walter

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="5" |Climate Change

| Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

| {{Flagu|Denmark}}

|

Jean Jouzel

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|France}}

|

Valérie Masson-Delmotte

|

Jakob Schwander

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Switzerland}}

|

Thomas Stocker

|

rowspan="2" |Ecology and Conservation Biology

| Gerardo Ceballos

| rowspan="2" | {{Flagu|Mexico}}

|

Rodolfo Dirzo

|

Information and Communication Technologies

| Takeo Kanade

| {{Flagu|Japan}}

|

Economics, Finance and Management

| Partha Dasgupta

| {{Flagu|India}} / {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

Humanities and Social Sciences

| Elke U. Weber

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Music and Opera

| George Benjamin

| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}}

|

rowspan="20" |2024

| rowspan="3" |Basic Sciences

| Avelino Corma

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

John F. Hartwig

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Helmut Schwarz

|{{Flagu|Germany}}

|

rowspan="4" |Biology and Biomedicine

| Daniel Joshua Drucker

| {{Flagu|Canada}}

|

Joel F. Habener

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Jens Juul Holst

| {{Flagu|Denmark}}

|

Svetlana Mojsov

| {{Flagu|North Macedonia}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Climate Change

| Camille Parmesan

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

rowspan="2" | Information and Communication Technologies

| Anil Jain

| {{Flagu|India}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Michael I. Jordan

|{{Flagu|United States}}

rowspan="3" | Economics, Finance and Management

| Olivier Blanchard

| {{Flagu|France}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Jordi Gali

| {{Flagu|Spain}}

|

Michael Dean Woodford

| {{Flagu|United States}}

rowspan="6" | Humanities and Social Sciences

| Icek Ajzen

| {{Flagu|Poland}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Dolores Albarracín

| {{Flagu|Argentina}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Mahzarin Banaji

| {{Flagu|India}} / {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Anthony Greenwald

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Richard E. Petty

| {{Flagu|United States}}

|

Philip Kitcher

| {{Flagu|United States}}

Music and Opera

| Toshio Hosokawa

| {{Flagu|Japan}}

|

= Laureates per country =

Below is a chart of all laureates per country (updated to 2023 laureates). Some laureates are counted more than once if they have multiple citizenships.

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!Country

!Number of laureates

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|United States}}

|102

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}

|20

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|France}}

|9

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Canada}}

|9

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Germany}}

|7

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Hungary}}

|6

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Spain}}

|6

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Japan}}

|5

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Austria}}

|4

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Russia}}

|3

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Italy}}

|3

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Israel}}

|3

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Sweden}}

|2

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Argentina}}

|2

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Brazil}}

|1

style="text-align:left;" |{{flag|Netherlands}}

|1

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