Elon Musk (Credit: SpaceX)
ZURICH (STARMUS PR) — The STARMUS festival announces the 2019 winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal, one of the world’s most celebrated science communication awards. This year’s recipients are:
- Elon Musk for his astounding accomplishments in space travel and for humanity
- Brian Eno for his contribution to the popularisation of science
- Apollo 11, a documentary by Todd Douglas Miller, for its breakthrough look at history’s most famous space mission.
STARMUS will announce the winners at a press event in Zurich on May 10th, with the medal ceremony to follow on June 24 at the STARMUS V festival, also in Zurich. Celebrated scientist and educator Bill Nye will host the ceremony, and scheduled attendees include a remarkable roster of science and space luminaries, including Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins and six other Apollo mission astronauts.