In 1999 Anne Cutler was the first woman to receive the NWO Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science. With the money from the premium - which can be freely spent on a purpose related to scientific research - she laid the foundation of the Baby and Child Research Centre, the first baby research centre where the language development and later the social-cognitive development of babies and children were studied.
Pim Levelt, former director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, wrote an in memoriam for Anne Cutler - available on the institute's website.
