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< The Heinz Awards, named for the late Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz, will be handed out Monday to winners in five categories.

Sculptor Mark Di Suvero will receive the 11th annual Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities today, the Heinz Family Foundation announced.

"For almost 50 years, the works of Mark Di Suvero have stopped us in our tracks, confronting us with audacious colors and shapes and mesmerizing us with subtle energy and intricate proportion," said Teresa Heinz Kerry, the chairwoman of the foundation, Heinz's widow and the wife of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

The other winners are: Jerry Franklin, a forest ecologist, the environment award; Joseph Rogers, a mental health administrator, the human condition prize; Sidney Drell, a theoretical physicist and arms control adviser, public policy; and Mildred Dresselhaus, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the category of technology, the economy and employment for her work as a trailblazer for women in the sciences.

The winners will get $250,000 each.

Heinz also handed out its Chairman's Medal, an award established to "recognize profound contributions across a spectrum of activity," to Richard Goldman, a philanthropist and chairman of Goldman Insurance Services from San Francisco.

There is no monetary prize with the award, the Heinz Foundation said.

The Heinz Awards will be presented at a private ceremony in Washington, D.C. on May 24. >

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