13th annual Heinz Awards winners announced

"The Heinz Family Foundation, whose $250,000 awards place them among the largest individual achievement prizes in the world, has announced the recipients of the 13th annual Heinz Awards, bestowed on six extraordinary Americans whose pioneering achievements have helped expand human understanding, spur innovation and enhance the world's capacity to sustain itself. Presented since 1994 to honor the life's work of the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz, the $250,000 Heinz Awards recognize remarkable contributions across a spectrum of activity - from the arts and the environment to technology and public policy"