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IMAGE: Gerald Holton, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities. view more
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science, in which he has shown a special sensitivity to cultural, philosophical, and sociological and gender contexts, says the committee in its citation.
Holton, it continues, has developed a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomenon of anti-science, and its role in totalitarianism.
The citation refers also to his innovative contributions to science education, his decisive role in the preservation of Albert Einstein s documentary legacy, and his studies into the fate of children forced to flee Nazi Germany.