North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
founded in 1970
The North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts was founded in 1970 as the successor of the Association for Research of North-Rhine-Westphalia, which was initiated by the former Prime Minister Karl Arnold in 1950. The aim and purpose of this consolidation of the natural and technical sciences was to scientifically advise the government of North-Rhine-Westphalia during the post-war reconstruction. The construction of the Karl-Arnold-House in Düsseldorf in 1960 gave the association its own building in which it could fulfil its tasks. In 1970 it was renamed the “Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences”. From 1993 until 2008 it was called “North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences”.
The North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences is the first academy in Germany to adopt the arts into a class of its own.
In 2008 the Federal Government of North-Rhine-Westphalia decided to enlarge the Academy by a fourth class, the class of the arts. Since then, the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences has become the first academy in Germany to adopt the arts into a class of its own. Its first members were accepted in 2009. Today the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy is divided into three scientific classes and one class of the arts. Since 2006, the academy has also supported young researchers and artists. The Young College in the academy is a place for unrestricted research and transdisciplinary dialogue. It is open to both post-doctoral candidates as well as outstanding artistic talent from North-Rhine-Westphalia, who are not older than 36.
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Foundations, norms and criteria of ethical judgment in the Life Sciences
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Editing, translating, and commenting of the small and fragmented historians of the late antiquity
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Comprehensive encyclopaedia of late antique culture and Christianity
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Executive Committee
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hammerstaedt
Vice President and Secretary for the Humanities
Papyrology
Vice Secretary
Prof. Dr. Monika Emans
General and Comparative Literature
Prof. Dr. Otmar Schober
Vice President and Secretary for Natural Sciences and Medical Science
Nuclear Medicine
Vice Secretary
Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer
Theoretical Physics
Prof. Dr. Jochen Kreusel
Vice President and Secretary for Engineering and Economics
Energy technology and economy
Vice Secretary
Prof. Dr. Caren Sureth-Sloane
Business Administration
Prof. Dr. Anthony Cragg
Vice President and Secretary for the Arts
Sculpture
Vice Secretary
Prof. Dr. Mischa Kuball
Media Art/Light Art
