Mathematician prof.dr. Alexander Schrijver is awarded the Spinoza Prize 2005. This was announced by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in The Hague on June 6. Lex Schrijver (1948) is researcher at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam, leader of the Probability, Networks and Algorithms research cluster and member of CWI's Management team. He is also part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam. Schrijver received this prestigious prize, sometimes called the Dutch Nobel Prize, for his outstanding, pioneering and inspiring research in the field of combinatorics and algorithms. The Spinoza Prize is the most distinguished award in science in the Netherlands and consists of an amount of one and a half million euro – to spend on research of choice – and a statue of Spinoza. The official presentation of the money and the statue to Schrijver and three other laureates will take place on Wednesday 23 November 2005.
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