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The Gannon Award
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The Eugene R. Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement is an award for success in various fields of academia, named after deceased Vietnam veteran Eugene R. Gannon Jr. The award has one finalist in each of the fields of philosophy, arts or humanities, and mathematics or natural sciences, and then selects a single winner. A cash prize is donated to the charity of the winner's choice. The 2009 recipient was Nick Bostrom, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Bostrom selected the Future of Humanity Institute as the recipient of The Gannon Award's cash prize. The other finalists were Kwame Appiah, professor of cultural theory at Princeton, and Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York. The 2010 recipient was Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. Rosling selected the Gapminder Foundation as the recipient of The Gannon Award's cash prize. See Also
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