Prof. Hans Kamp was suggested for the renowned Rolf Schock Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also awards the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physics. Kamp shares the prize with linguist Prof. Irene Heim from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Independently of each other, both developed theories in the 1980s on the "conception and early development of dynamic semantics for natural languages," which are still considered groundbreaking in specialized circles today. In the course of his academic career, Kamp made further important research contributions to formal logic and the philosophy of language at the Institute of Linguistics and the Institute of Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart.
"On behalf of the University of Stuttgart, I would like to congratulate Hans Kamp on this extremely important award," says Prof. Wolfram Ressel, Rector at the University of Stuttgart. "The fact that this year's Rolf Schock Prize goes to a philosopher and scientist from Stuttgart shows the international appeal of our research location."
International recognition
The Rolf Schock Prizes have been awarded every two years since 1993 in the fields of logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music. The winners are nominated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. This year, the prize money per category totals 600,000 Swedish kronor. The award ceremony will take place on November 11, 2024, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden. This is the first time that the Prize for Logic and Philosophy has been awarded to a German university.
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Hans Kamp was born in the Netherlands in 1940. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968. After holding several academic positions in Europe and the USA, he was appointed professor at the University of Stuttgart in 1988. He conducted research at the Institute of Linguistics and the Institute of Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart, one of the largest centers of computational linguistics in Germany and Europe. There he headed the Department of Formal Logic and Philosophy of Language. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from the French University of Lorraine. In 2015, Kamp was elected a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences - an honor that only a few non-Americans have ever been granted.
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