Present: Print and Electronic Media
Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking.
Before being redesigned in 2021, the Dan David Prize celebrated laureates whose work and research made outstanding contributions to humanity.
2003
2003
Present: Print and Electronic Media
James Nachtwey dedicated his life to documenting war, famine, man's inhumanity to man and the plight of the disenfranchised all over the world.
Future: Cosmology and Astronomy
John Bahcall made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different areas of modern astrophysics.
2003
Past: Paleoanthropology
In 2002, Michel Brunet discovered in Chad an almost complete cranium of the oldest human ancestor: Sahelanthropus tchadensis (nicknamed Toumai).
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