Dan David Prize

Three prizes of US$ 1 million each are annually awarded for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world. Each year fields are chosen within the three Time Dimensions - Past, Present and Future.
 

Selected Fields 2011

2011 Selected Fields

 

Dan David Prize Laureates

  • Adam Michnik
    2006 Present - Journalists of Print Media
    michnikAdam Michnik, a Polish journalist and activist, has made enormous contributions to freedom of speech and freedo...
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  • Al Gore
    2008 Present - Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment
    AlGoreAl Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide awareness of the detrimen...
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  • Amiram Grinvald
    2004 Future - Brain Sciences
    grinwaldDr. Amiram Grinvald of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department is considered the world leader in fun...
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  • Amitav Ghosh
    2010 Present - Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century
    ghoshAmitav Ghosh is an lndian-Bengali novelist whose work offers a panoramic treatment of twentieth-century history fro...
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  • Amos Oz
    2008 Past - Creative Rendering of the Past: Literature, Theater, Film
    AmosOzAmos Oz, one of the most widely read Israeli writers in the world, has published numerous novels, novellas, short...
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  • Andrew E. Lange
    2009 Past Astrophysics-History of the Universe
    lange_-_size Andrew E. Lange is Goldberger Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, ...
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  • Atom Egoyan
    2008 Past - Creative Rendering of the Past: Literature, Theater, Film
    AtomEgoyanAtom Egoyan, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is a critically acclaimed and prize winning Canadian-Arme...
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  • C.N.R. Rao
    2005 Future - Materials Science
    raoC.N.R. Rao is the Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Ban...
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  • Daniel Hillis
    2002 Present - Technology, Information and Society
    hillis1Dr. W. Daniel Hillis has been selected for the first Dan David prize in the category of 'The Present: Technolog...
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  • Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson
    2008 Future - Geosciences
    ThompsonsEllen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, Professors at the Ohio State University, USA, are a scientific t...
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  • Frederick Wiseman
    2003 Present - Print & Electronic Media
    wisemanFrederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmma...
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  • Geoffrey Eglinton
    2008 Future - Geosciences
    GeoffreyEglintonGeoffrey Eglinton is Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at the U...
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  • George Whitesides
    2005 Future - Materials Science
    whitesidesGeorge Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...
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  • Giorgio Napolitano
    2010 Past - March Towards Democracy

    napolitanoGiorgio Napolitano is the President of the Republic of Italy and is known fo...

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  • Goenawan Mohamad
    2006 Present - Journalists of Print Media
    mohamadGoenawan Mohamad is one of the world's leading voices of moderate Islam. He has written extensively and eloquen...
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  • Gordon E. Moore
    2010 Future - Computers and Telecommunications
    mooreDr. Gordon E. Moore is a visionary. His ...
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  • Graeme Barker
    2005 Past - Archaeology
    GraemeBarkerProfessor of Archaeology and Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University of C...
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  • Israel Finkelstein
    2005 Past - Archaeology

    israel-finkelsteinProf. Israel Finkelstein is the holder of the Jacob M. Alkow
    Chair in the Arch...
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  • Istanbul
    2004 Past - Cities: Historical Legacy
    istanbulIstanbul has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for it embodies the history of West and...
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  • Jacques Le Goff
    2007 Past - Historians - Authors of Major Works of History

    JacquesLeGoffJacques Le Goff has been recognized as one of the leading historians of the European Middle Ages...

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  • James Hansen
    2007 Future - Quest for Energy
    jhansenDr. Hansen, affiliated with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the small handf...
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  • James Nachtwey
    2003 Present - Print & Electronic Media
    jnachtJames Nachtwey is no ordinary photojournalist. He has dedicated his life to documenting the apocalyptic events of...
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  • Jerusalem
    2004 Past - Cities: Historical Legacy
    jerusalemJerusalem has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for being the holy place where mono...
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  • John Bahcall
    2003 Future - Cosmology & Astronomy
    bahcall_sProf. John Bahcall has made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different are...
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  • John Mendelsohn
    2006 Future - Cancer Therapy
    mendelsohnJohn Mendelsohn, MD, combines experience in clinical and laboratory research wit...
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  • John Sulston
    2002 Future - Life Sciences
    sulston1subsequently received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002.
    ...
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  • Joseph Schlessinger
    2006 Future - Cancer Therapy
    schlessingerJoseph Schlessinger, PhD, has been the William H. Prusoff Professor and Chairman of the Department o...
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  • Klaus Schwab
    2004 Present - Leadership: Changing Our World
    schwabThe 2004 Dan David Prize for the Present Time Dimension in the field of Leadership: Changing Our World is awarded...
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  • Leonard Kleinrock
    2010 Future - Computers and Telecommunications
    kleinrock Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los...
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  • Magdi Allam
    2006 Present - Journalists of Print Media
    allamMagdi Allam, born in Egypt and raised in Italy, is one of the leading journalists in Italy today. He is Deputy Edi...
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  • Margaret Atwood
    2010 Present - Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century
    atwoodOne of Canada's most renowned writers, Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer who has produced more than forty volu...
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  • Michael O. Rabin
    2010 Future - Computers and Telecommunications
    michael.rabin. photoProf. Michael O. Rabin, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Boston, ...
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  • Michel Brunet
    2003 Past - Paleoanthropology
    brunet_sDirecteur UMR CNRS 6046
    Laboratoire de Geobiologie, Biochronologie et Paleontologie Humaine Faculte des...
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  • Monica Gonzalez
    2006 Present - Journalists of Print Media
    gonzalezMonica Gonzalez, a Chilean journalist and author, has established a reputation as Chile's premier investigati...
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  • Paolo de Bernardis
    2009 Past Astrophysics-History of the Universe
    de bernardis - smallPaolo de Bernardis is Professor of Physics at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Ita...
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  • Pascal Dusapin
    2007 Present - Contemporary Music
    dusapinPascal Dusapin (born in 1955) is an outstanding figure within the world of contemporary music, where he is regu...
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  • Paul Richards
    2009 Past Astrophysics-History of the Universe

    richards_-_smallPaul Richards is Professor of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley...
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  • Peter Brook
    2005 Present - The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music
    PeterBrookPeter Brook, born in London, on March 21, 1925 , is currently the Director of the International Center ...
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  • Robert C. Gallo
    2009 Future Global Public Health
    gallo_smallRobert C. Gallo, MD, is the Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Med...
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  • Robert H. Waterston
    2002 Future - Life Sciences
    waterston1Prof. Robert H. Waterston (born 1943 in Michigan, USA) obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from P...
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  • Robert Langer
    2005 Future - Materials Science
    langerRobert Langer is the Kenneth L. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusett...
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  • Robert Wurtz
    2004 Future - Brain Sciences

    wurtzDr. Robert Wurtz, Dr. Amiram Grinvald and Dr. William Newsome have revolutionized neurobiology by showing that h...

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  • Rome
    2004 Past - Cities: Historical Legacy
    romeRome has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for its jurisprudence, its language and the importa...
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  • Sarah Kurtz & Jerry Olson
    2007 Future - Quest for Energy
    olson_kurtzOver the past two decades Sarah R. Kurtz and Jerry M. Olson have made exceptional and profound contribu...
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  • Sydney Brenner
    2002 Future - Life Sciences
    brenner1subsequently received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2002.

    Prof. Sydney Brenner's sustained contr...
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  • The Warburg Library, London
    2002 Past - History

    for facilitating the study of western civilization and its convergence with the ancient and modern cultures of Islam, Judaism, and early Christianity

    The Warburg Lib...

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  • Tom Stoppard
    2008 Past - Creative Rendering of the Past: Literature, Theater, Film
    TomStoppardTom Stoppard established himself as one of the few undisputed masters of the modern stage in 1966 with ...
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  • Tony Blair
    2009 Present Leadership
    blairAnthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair, former British Prime Minister, is one of the most outstanding statesmen of our...
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  • William T. Newsome III
    2004 Future - Brain Sciences
    newsomeDr. William T. Newsome bridges the fields of neurophysiology and perceptual psychology. Through his outstanding...
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  • Yo-Yo Ma
    2006 Past - Preserving Cultural Heritage

    Yo-YoMa

    Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned cellist whose inspirations go well beyond the concert hall.

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  • Zubin Mehta
    2007 Present - Contemporary Music
    mehtaZubin Mehta, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, is one of the world`s leading conductors. He is a vivid sym...
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