# Swartz Prize

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The **Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience** is an annual award supported by the Swartz Foundation and administered by the [Society for Neuroscience](/source/Society_for_Neuroscience).

## History

The prize was inaugurated in 2008 to "honor an individual whose activities have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in [neuroscience](/source/Neuroscience) or who has made a particularly noteworthy recent advance in [theoretical](/source/Theoretical_neuroscience) or [computational neuroscience](/source/Computational_neuroscience)."[1] The winner receives a cash prize of US$25,000 and expenses to attend the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.[2]

## Awardees

- Source: [Society for Neuroscience](https://www.sfn.org/Careers/Awards/Lifetime/Swartz-Prize-for-Theoretical-and-Computational-Neuroscience)

- 2008: [Wilfrid Rall](/source/Wilfrid_Rall)
- 2009: [Horace Barlow](/source/Horace_Barlow)
- 2010: [Larry Abbott](/source/Larry_Abbott)
- 2011: [Haim Sompolinsky](/source/Haim_Sompolinsky)
- 2012: [John J. Hopfield](/source/John_J._Hopfield)[1]
- 2013: [William S. Bialek](/source/William_S._Bialek)
- 2014: [Tomaso Poggio](/source/Tomaso_Poggio)
- 2015: [Terry Sejnowski](/source/Terry_Sejnowski)
- 2016: [Nancy Kopell](/source/Nancy_Kopell)
- 2017: [Xiao-Jing Wang](/source/Xiao-Jing_Wang)
- 2018: [Kenneth D. Miller](/source/Ken_Miller_(neuroscientist))
- 2019: [John Rinzel](/source/John_Rinzel)
- 2020: [Emery N. Brown](/source/Emery_N._Brown)
- 2021: [Nicolas Brunel](/source/Nicolas_Brunel)
- 2022: [Ila R. Fiete](/source/Ila_Fiete)
- 2023: [Misha Tsodyks](/source/Misha_Tsodyks)
- 2024: [Eero Simoncelli](/source/Eero_Simoncelli)
- 2025: [Alexandre Pouget](/source/Alexandre_Pouget)

## See also

- [List of neuroscience awards](/source/List_of_neuroscience_awards)
- [Neuroscience](/source/Neuroscience)

## References

1. ["The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to SfN Swartz Prize Recipient"](https://www.sfn.org/publications/latest-news/2024/10/08/the-2024-nobel-prize-in-physics-awarded-to-sfn-swartz-prize-recipient). *www.sfn.org*. Retrieved 2025-01-09.

1. ["Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience"](http://preview.sfn.org/SfN/Awards-and-Funding/Individual-Prizes-and-Fellowships/Outstanding-Research-and-Career-Awards/Swartz-Prize-for-Theoretical-and-Computational-Neuroscience). Society for Neuroscience. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

## External links

- [Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience - Society for Neuroscience.](https://www.sfn.org/careers/awards/outstanding-career-and-research-achievements-awards/swartz-prize-for-theoretical-and-computational-neuroscience) Info and winner list.

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