Non-governmental organizations maintaining official partnership with UNESCO and active in relevant fields covered by the prize are also invited to submit nominations.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Candidatures must be presented by the government of a Member State of UNESCO or an international non-governmental organisation, maintaining formal consultative relations with UNESCO and active in the relevant fields covered by the prize.

UNESCO: Apply for UNESCO Prizes

Nominations will be made by the governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as by non-governmental organisations maintaining official partnerships with the Organization and active in relevant fields covered by the prize.

UNESCO: Apply for UNESCO Prizes

The visit to Kyoto also featured the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with Professor Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of Kyoto University, for the establishment of an internship programme to strengthen UNESCO's action -- "through many talented young women and men coming from one of the world's leading institutions of higher learning, a haven for Nobel Prize winners and Fields medallists" said Irina Bokova.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Dr Irwing told The Times the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like".

BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | 'Men cleverer than women' claim

D. from Princeton at 20 and in 2000 became the youngest faculty member to be appointed a full professor at UCLA. In 2006 he won both the Fields Medal, a sort of Nobel Prize for young mathematicians, and a MacArthur grant.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Off the playing fields, Princeton professor Daniel Tsui Chye won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with two colleagues, for a breakthrough in understanding how subatomic particles behave.

CNN: SPARKS IN THE DARKNESS

The Prize rewards significant activities in the scientific, artistic, cultural or communication fields aimed at the promotion of a spirit of tolerance and non-violence.

UNESCO: Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence 2009