The STARMUS festival has announced the 2019 winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal, one of the world’s most celebrated science communication awards. The medal ceremony will take place on 24 June at the STARMUS V festival in Zurich.

One of the recipients this year is Brian Eno, for his contribution to the popularisation of science:

“I am delighted that Brian Eno has been chosen for this year’s Hawking Medal. Not only has he been an extraordinary and pioneering artist, composer and producer he has always been a science evangelist. Brian has often created the doorway through which the avant-garde enters the mainstream. His influence has reached way beyond his own field – he has been the creator of ambient and now evolutionary musical forms, challenging the role, nature and perceptions of what art can and should do. This application of a fierce, scientific intelligence to the softer and mushier terrain of the arts has produced extraordinarily influential work, and also made it ideal score material for many a space and sci-fi film”. – Peter Gabriel