In September 2011, molecular biologist Miyoung Chun of The Kavli Foundation organized a conference in London, at which scientists first put forth the idea of such a project.
The Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) is an independent laboratory of Stanford University, founded in 2003 by a gift by Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation.
From 2008, he was a professor at the Laboratory of Applied Physics and since 2011, a co-director at the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, both located in California Institute of Technology.
The Kavli Prizes are presented in cooperation with the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway is Kavli's native country).
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