The Research Council of Norway's Award for Excellence in Communication of Science is awarded annually by the Research Council of Norway. According to its bylaws, the prize is to be given in order to "reward and stimulate the dissemination of research to a broad audience. The dissemination must be of high quality in both form and content." The price is worth 200000 kr.
2014: Professor Frank Aarebrot, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
2013: Professor Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen, Sports Medicine Section, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
2012: Professor Nils Christian Stenseth, Department of Biology and the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo
2011: Professor Kalle Moene, Head of the Centre of Equality, Social Organization and Performance (ESOP), University of Oslo
2010: The website, Forskning.no
2009: Jørn H. Hurum, Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo
2008: Professor Ole Didrik Lærum, Gades Institute, University of Bergen.
2007: Professor Egil Lillestøl, Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen
2006: Wenche Blomberg, Institute of Criminology and Legal Sociology, University of Oslo
2005: Professor Terje Tvedt, Head of Research at the Center for Development Studies, University of Bergen
2004: Odd Aksel Bergstad, MAR-ECO Project
2003: Professor Bente Træen, Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø
2002: Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
2001: Michael Baziljevich, Department of Physics, University of Oslo
2000: NRK P2s pop-science radio program Verdt å vite
1999: Henry Valen, Norwegian Institute of Social Research
1998: Professor Dag O. Hessen, University of Oslo
1997: Professor Asgeir Brekke, University of Tromsø, and Professor Alv Egeland, University of Oslo
1996: Professor Lisbet Holtedahl, University of Tromsø
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