Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award

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The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award
A golden medallion with an embossed image of a mustached man. Surrounding the bust in bold uppercase type is embossed the words, THE OPPENHEIMER MEMORIAL TRUST.
Awarded forThe top award for research on the African continent awarded to leading scholars who have a sustained record of outstanding research and intellectual achievement at the highest level.
CountrySouth Africa
Presented byThe Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
First awarded2001

The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award is awarded annually by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. It is considered the top award for research on the African continent.

In Memory of Harry Oppenheimer

The Award was created in 2001, in South Africa, by the Trustees of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, itself established in 1958 by Harry Oppenheimer in memory of his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer.

The

philanthropic vision of the once-richest man in the world is embedded within three foundations:[1]

  1. The
    economic empowerment
    in Africa.
  2. The Oppenheimer Memorial Trust funds and encourages
    arts and the search for knowledge, through various grants
    and initiatives, and awards Africa's premier research prize, the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award.
  3. The
    Africana
    in the world and the celebrated transcripts of Nelson Mandela's trials.

How the Fellowship Award is bestowed

Awardees are leading scholars who have a sustained record of outstanding research and intellectual achievement at the highest level. They must have demonstrated a capacity for and a commitment to knowledge transfer to their fellow citizens. Up to now the Award has only been presented to South Africans or South Africa-based academics.

The Award is made by a select committee and approved by the Trustees in December of each year. The Secretary General of the Academy of Science of South Africa chairs the selection proceedings.

The remittance ceremony takes place in April following the year of the Award, at the Oppenheimers’ residence, Brenthurst, in Johannesburg. The Award (a gold medal and a monetary prize) is bestowed by Mrs. Harry (Bridget) Oppenheimer.

List of Laureates

Source: Oppenheimer Memorial Trust

  • 2022:
    Michael Wingfield, University of Pretoria[2]
  • 2018: Valerie Mizrahi, University of Cape Town [3]
  • 2017: Mark Solms, University of Cape Town [3]
  • 2016: Jointly awarded to University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town faculty member Professor Robert (Bob) Millar for his work in neuroendocrinology and Professor Lynn Morris, Research Professor at Wits University and Research Associate at the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
  • 2015: Jointly awarded to Brenda Wingfield, Professor of Genetics, University of Pretoria and Xolela Mangcu, professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town[4]
  • 2014: Helen Rees, Personal Professor in the Wits Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology[5]
  • 2013: Keertan Dheda, Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of UCT's Division of Pulmonology
  • 2012: Awarded Robin Crewe, Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria for his work on bees
  • 2011: Les Underhill, Director of the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town.[6] He will use the funds to continue a lifelong project entitled "Building early warning systems for Biodiversity in South Africa".
  • 2010: Duncan Mitchell, Emeritus Professor at the
    global warming
    and to southern hemisphere drying.
  • 2009:
    Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) who investigates minuscule lipid "volatiles" (chemical signals).[7]
  • 2008:
    Collège International de Philosophie, he is one of the main disciples of Marc Fumaroli, himself a laureate of the Balzan Prize. His pioneering work on rhetoric has placed him at the forefront of this new discipline. He is a noted chronicler on rhetoric and politics for the French public intellectual news magazine L'Annuel des idées.[9]
  • 2007: Jointly awarded to
    stem cells research in relation to recurrence of cancer
    in recovered patients.
  • 2006:
    complex systems
    .
  • 2005: Norman Owen-Smith,[10] an A-rated scientist in the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand Prize was awarded in recognition for his outstanding work in helping to foster an understanding of the dynamics of large mammalian herbivores in changing environments.
  • 2004: Jointly awarded to Igor Barashenkov[11] and Frank Brombacher,[12] Director of the MRC Unit for Immunology of Infectious Diseases in the IIDMM, University of Cape Town.
  • 2003: No award presented.
  • 2002:
    University of Stellenbosch
    , for his pioneering work on the organization and behaviour of the living cell.
  • 2001: David Glasser of the School of Process and Material Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand was the first recipient of the award.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Brenthurst Foundation: Strengthening Africa's economic performance". The Brenthurst Foundation.
  2. ^ Madiba, Dimpho. "University of Pretoria's Prof Michael Wingfield wins prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award". www.engineeringnews.co.za. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  3. ^ a b "Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award". University of Cape Town. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Awards, 2016" (PDF). South African Journal of Science Volume 112 No. 7/8. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Professor Helen Rees receives the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award". STRIVE. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Animal Demography Unit". adu.org.za.
  7. ^ "Business Day". BusinessLIVE.
  8. ^ "Rhetoric Africa 2012". www.rhetoricafrica.org.
  9. ^ "annuel-idees".[dead link]
  10. ^ Black, Vanessa (20 January 2008). "University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Prof Norman Owen-Smith". Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Igor Barashenkov". mth.uct.ac.za. 22 February 2012. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Associate Professor Frank Brombacher of the Department of Immunology …". archive.ph. 24 December 2012. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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