BRAIN OF THE YEAR AWARD 2010
The Awards Committee of the Brain Trust Charity has awarded
the prestigious title Brain of the Year to the newly crowned World Memory Champion, twenty year old Wang Feng of China.
Wang Feng, a history student from Wuhan University, achieved the highest ever score of 9486 in a World Memory Championships, beating 128 other competitors from over 20 countries. |
PAST WINNERS
Edward de Bono - regarded as one of the leading authorities in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill - Malta
Chionofuji - Sumo grand champion who used brain rather than brawn to triumph - Japan
Leif Edvinsson - Educator and author of the book Intellectual Capital - Sweden
Michael Gelb - Dan black belt and teacher of the Japanese Martial Art of Aikido, author of best selling books on the body. the brain and thinking - USA
John Glenn - Pioneering astronaut, US Senator, athlete and fighter pilot
Professor Stephen Hawking - Astro Physicist Extraordinaire and holder of Sir Isaac Newton's Professorship at Canbridge - UK
Ted Hughes - Poet Laureate - UK
Lana Israel - Rhodes Scholar, teenage polymath and world promoter of the ideal of Mental Literacy - USA/South Africa
Garry Kasparov - World chess champion (highest rated player of all time), linguist, athlete and campaigner for improved global education - Russia
Dominic O'Brien - Eight times World Memory Champion - UK
Steve Redgrave - Five times Olympic Gold Medalist in rowing and proponent and living example of the belief that brain power can be the determinant for success in an ostensibly physical activity - UK Engineer, philanthropist, the originator of and mastermind behind Star Trek - USA
Gene Roddenberry - Engineer, philanthropist, the originator of and mastermind behind Star Trek - USA
Dr Marion Tinsley - Legendary mind sports champion and the first human ever to win an official thinking sport world championship against a computer - USA
LIVING BRAIN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Baroness Susan Greenfield -Scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Her speciality is the physiology of the brain and she has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Baroness Greenfield is Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford and Director of the Royal Institution. She is noted for her endeavours to bring scientific understanding to the public - UK
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