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ENI award

The Eni Award is a prize awarded by the Italian oil and gas company Eni with the aim of encouraging better use of energy sources and increased environmental research. The strict award guidelines and the notable names on the selection committee (including Nobel laureates) make Eni a coveted award. List of Eni award winners include Nobel laureates like Harry Kroto and Alan J. Heeger.

Some websites and magazines (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei) have called the Eni award the "Nobel prize of energy research". The scientific committee of the Eni award includes representatives from Stanford University, MIT, Cambridge, University of Stuttgart, Florida State University, University of Pisa, University of Texas at Austin, and others. The annual Eni award was launched in July 2007, foreseen by the group's Technological Master Plan. The Eni award extends and replaces the Eni-Italgas Prize, previously known as the Italgas Prize, which in 2006 had reached its XIX edition.

The award's Scientific Committee – which has the role of evaluating the candidates and assigning the prizes, is of the highest level and comprises researchers and scientists from some of the world's most advanced research institutes, and includes Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize 1987 for Chemistry.

In subsequent years, 78 researchers from 20 countries have been awarded: Italy, Germany, the United States, Australia, France, Canada, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Sweden, South Korea, India, Egypt, South Africa, the Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. Included in the number are six Nobel Prize laureates. More than 7,559 researchers from around the world have submitted their research projects, to which should be added the numerous personalities who have guaranteed or been a part of the various evaluation commissions.

The distinguished representatives of the international scientific community who have received the Eni award in the past include Harry Kroto, 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry; Alan J. Heeger, 2000 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (unlike the others, he had won the Nobel Prize before receiving this award); Theodor W. Hänsch, 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics; Frances Arnold, 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry; Giorgio Parisi and Klaus Hasselmann, 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics; and Omar M. Yaghi, 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Prizes awarded in 2008 include:

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