NYU Today - A newspaper for the New York University community. Vol. 3, issue 11, February 15, 1990

Pellionisz wins prestigious Humboldt Prize for Scientific Research

Dr. Andras J. Pellionisz, professor of biophysics at the NYU Medical Center, has been awarded the 1989 Humboldt Prize for Scientific Research. The prize, given by the Bonn, West Germany-based Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is worth 50,000 Deutschmarks (about $30,000).

The award, given "to eminent foreign academics in recognition of achievement in research," was awarded to Pellionisz last October for his research into tensor geometric relationships in neural networking. It is the first international prize awarded for research into neurocom puting. In addition to the prize money, Pellionisz will have the opportunity to do research and development work in Germany sometime this year. He has indicated his intention to use the research time, assistance, and prize money to create a hardware prototype for the tensor paradigm of neural geometry that he has been working on throughout his prof essional career.