CAPO D'ORLANDO PRIZE

VICO EQUENSE Sorrento Coast International Prize

The traditional “Capo d’Orlando” scientific award ceremony, now in its 21st year, has been brought forward to April and, as usual, will be presented to a Nobel Prize winner who will be visiting Vico Equense and the Sorrento Coast. This scientific and cultural event will take place on Friday 26th at 6.00 p.m. in the historic Giusso Castle and, this year, the silver plaque depicting the fossil of a fish from the Cretaceous period, discovered in the 19th century at Capo d’Orlando (Vico Equense) goes to Sir Paul Nurse, the 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and Director of the Francis Crick Institute, the world’s most innovative biomedical research centre, inaugurated by Queen Elisabeth II on 9th November 2016. The award for the “Science” section will be presented to Sir Paul by Prof. Gaetano Manfredi, rector of the “Federico II” university and president of the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) in a public ceremony.
Nurse led the procedures for the opening of the London-based institute, named after Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, and known as the “home of genes” where life’s remaining secrets are being unlocked and where the most innovative research is being undertaken into illnesses and their prevention.