The prize question was the result.
From 1886 on in his own laboratory in Karlsruhe, Hertz performed his now-famous experiments, which Hertz himself acknowledged were prompted by Helmholtz's prize question, demonstrating the existence of radio waves (which are a kind of electromagnetic wave).
There may well have been an indirect influence from Wavre on Heyting if the article played a role when Mannoury wrote his proposal for the 1927 prize question that would be successfully answered by Heyting; but that is only speculation.
Herder's essay answers a prize question set by a society in Bern: "How can the truths of philosophy become more universal and useful for the benefit of the people?" This question was conceived in the spirit of the Popularphilosophie that was competing with school-philosophy in the German-speaking world at the time.
"That's his actual Peace Prize?" I questioned.
Others in attendance included Vicky Featherstone, artistic director of the Royal Court, playwrights Moira Buffini and April de Angelis and co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction (now the Bailey's prize) Kate Mosse, who questioned whether a similar women-only prize might prove fruitful for theatre.
I have been on mostly women-run prize committees which questioned their own feminist bona fides and then voted for the men's books".
Xan Brooks decodes the Croisette Simon Burnton: The barefoot 5,000m runner was given the chance to compete at the Los Angeles Games, but a dream opportunity turned to disaster When Alan Hollinghurst's celebrated The Stranger's Child was omitted from the Booker prize's shortlist, many questioned the award's credibility.
When Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Prize-winning former archbishop, questioned President Thabo Mbeki's leadership style, the latter accused him of being "an icon of the white people".
The prize in question is the Prix Ars Electronica, awarded annually during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
Some had questioned whether the sex scenes may make it too explicit for the top prize.
