World Cultural Council

The World Cultural Council is an international organization whose goals are to promote cultural values, goodwill and philanthropy among individuals. The organization founded in 1982 and based in Mexico, has held a yearly award ceremony since 1984 by granting the Albert Einstein World Award of Science, the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education, and the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts to outstanding scientists, educators, and artists, who have contributed positively to the cultural enrichment of mankind. The members of the Council include several Nobel laureates.

Founding members
The founding members of the World Cultural Council are 124 distinguished personalities in such fields as the arts, biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, psychology, neuroscience, astronomy, oceanography, astrophysics, anthropology, and zoology. Some of these members are recipients of awards because of their outstanding achievements including the Nobel Prize, the National Medal of Science, the Copley Medal, the Royal Medal, the Albert Einstein Medal, the Albert Lasker Award and the Enrico Fermi Award. Some of the founders are also Foreign Members or Fellows of the Royal Society, Fellows of the American Physical Society, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The 124 founding members of the World Cultural Council are: • Christian B. Anfinsen

• Werner Arber

• James Baddiley

• M. Balasegaram

• Frank Barnaby

• Christiaan Barnard

• Colin Blakemore

• Aage N. Bohr

• Norman Borlaug

• Harold G. Callan

• André Frédéric Cournand

• William J. Darby

• Eduardo de Robertis

• Cornelis de Jager

• Guy Blaudin de Thé

• Jean-François Denisse

• Venancio Deulofeu

• Frank J. Dixon

• Richard S. Doll

• Audouin Dollfus

• Jacques-Émile Dubois

• Gerald Durrell

• Francisco J. Dy

• John C. Eccles

• Paul Ehrlich

• Manfred Eigen

• Mohammed El Fasi

• Ernest L. Eliel

• Kenneth O. Emergy

• José Rafael Estrada

• Hans J. Eysenck

• Don W. Fawcett

• David J. Finney

• Val L. Fitch

• Carl G. Gahmberg

• Alfred D. Hershey

• Gerhard Herzberg

• David H. Hubel

• Osmo H. Järvi

• Reginald V. Jones

• Adrian Kantrowitz

• Nathan O. Kaplan

• Leo A. Kaprio

• Vassos Karageorghis

• Peter E. Kent

• Donald W. Kerst

• Seymour S. Kety

• Prem N. Kirpal

• Georges B. Koelle

• Walther Manshard

• Georges Mathé

• William D. McElroy

• Henry McIlwain

• John McMichael

• Jerrold Meinwald

• Harry Melville

• Desmond J. Morris

• Giuseppe Moruzzi

• Nevill Mott

• Vernon B. Mountcastle

• Robert S. Mulliken

• Walter H. Munk

• Ilie G. Murgulescu

• Jayant V. Narlikar

• Louis E. F. Néel

• Yuval Ne'eman

• Bernhard H. Neumann

• William A. Nierenberg

• Marshall W. Nirenberg

• George E. Palade

• Arthur B. Pardee

• David Phillips

• Jacques Piccard

• Jens J. Pindborg

• Comlan A. A. Quenum

• Hermann Rahn

• G. N. Ramachandran

• Gunnar Randers

• Chintamani N. R. Rao

• Rex Richards

• Jean Rösch

• Abraham J. A. Roux

• Stanley K. Runcorn

• Donald H. Sadler

• Hakim Muhammad Saeed

• Nobufusa Saito

• Abdus Salam

• Stuart J. Saunders

• Menahem Max Schiffer

• William G. Schneider

• Glenn T. Seaborg

• Ernest R. Sears

• Frederick Seitz

• Leonard T. Skeggs

• Stefan Ślopek

• George J. Smets

• George D. Snell

• Leonard Sosnowky

• Roger W. Sperry

• Lyman Spitzer

• Frederick Stewart

• Heikki Suomalainen

• Pol Swings

• Charles Tanford

• Henry Taube

• John M. Tedder

• Edward Teller

• Howard Temin

• Harold Thompson

• Peter C. Thonemann

• Phillip V. Tobias

• Alexander R. Todd

• Jan Peter Toennies

• Andrzej Trautman

• Jean L. F. Tricart

• Ioan Ursu

• Constantin Vago

• Eugene van Tamelen

• Ulf S. von Euler

• Alan Walsh

• William J. Whelan

• Karel F. Wiesner

• Rosalyn S. Yalow

• John Z. Young

Special recognitions
Starting in 2003, the World Cultural Council issues Special Recognitions to expert researchers connected to the host of the award ceremony, and which findings have been made available to the public.