Annual Report 2002 » Prizes and Honors

Prof. Abraham Amsterdam Award for Outstanding Achievement conferred in the Sixth World Congress on Advances in Oncology

Prof. Ruth Arnon The Israel Prize for Medicine; Scientific Award on the Occasion of the Third Annual Musical Moments for Multiple Sclerosis; appointed as a member of the European Research Advisory Board

Prof. Ed Bayer Elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology

Prof. Zelig Eshhar Appointed as the first Chairman of the Israeli Society for Gene Therapy

Prof. Uriel Feige and Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser The Godel Prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science

Mr. Mark Gandelman (group of Prof. David Milstein) The Annual Student Award from the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI)

Prof. Amiram Grinvald Elected as an external member of the Max-Planck Society and as an external scientific member of the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research at Heidelberg; The Brooks Lectureship at Harvard School of Medicine

Prof. Yoram Groner The 2002 Landau Prize

Prof. Haim Harari The Harnack Medal from the Max-Planck Society

Prof. Yoseph Imry and Prof. Shmuel Shtrikman The Israel Prize for Physics

Prof. Meir Lahav and Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz The Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography of the Royal Academy of Sweden

Prof. Tsvee Lapidot The James Heineman Research Award

Prof. Harry J. Lipkin The Wigner Medal from the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation

Prof. David Milstein The Kolthoff Prize in Chemistry from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Michal Neeman Elected to the Board of Trustees of the ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine)

Prof. Amir Pnueli Elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Itamar Procaccia Elected as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina

Prof. Ran Raz The Erdos Prize for Mathematics from the Israel Mathematical Union

Prof. Israel Rubinstein Elected as a fellow of the Electrochemical Society

Prof. Leo Sachs Honorary Lifetime Membership of the International Cytokine Society; the EMET Prize in Life Sciences from the A.M.N. Foundation

Prof. Michal Schwartz The Post-Polio Syndrome Research Award from the Polio Connection of America; The Friedenwald Award from the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; The G. Heiner Sell Memorial Lectureship for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Spinal Injury awarded by the American Spinal Injury Association; The International Glaucoma Review Award

Prof. Michael Sela Honorary Doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Moshe Shapiro The 2001 Outstanding Chemist Prize from the Israel Chemical Society

Prof. Nathan Sharon Honorary Member of the American Society for Microbiology, Washington; Honorary Fellowship from the Council of the Open University of Israel

Prof. Itzhak Tserruya Elected to the Executive Council of the PHENDIX experiment

Prof. Ada E. Yonath The Israel Prize for Chemistry; F.A. Cotton Medal sponsored by the ACS Texas A&M Section and the Texas A&M University Chemistry Department; Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University (to be conferred in 2003); the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Daniel Zajfman Appointed as an External Scientific Member of the Max- Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg