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    Before being redesigned in 2021, the Dan David Prize celebrated laureates whose work and research made outstanding contributions to humanity.

    Frederick Wiseman
    2003

    Present: Print and Electronic Media

    Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmmaking.

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    James Nachtwey
    James Nachtwey
    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.

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    John Bahcall
    John Bahcall (1934 - 2005)
    2003

    Future: Cosmology and Astronomy

    John Bahcall made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different areas of modern astrophysics.

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    Michel Brunet
    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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