Annual Report 2007 » Prizes and Honors

Awards to Scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science from September 2006 to September 2007

Dr. Tal Alexander The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Prof. Ruth Arnon Honorary Doctorate from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Ilya Averbukh Elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the American Physical Society

Prof. Naama Barkai Teva Founders Prize

Prof. Avi Ben-Nun Humboldt Research Award from the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology

Prof. Brian Berkowitz Elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America

Prof. Yadin Dudai The Eduardo De Robertis Medal of the Argentinean Society for Neuroscience

Prof. Marvin Edelman Distinguished Service Award from the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Prof. Bat-Sheva Eylon Elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Prof. Daniella Goldfarb Bruker Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry

Dr. Maria Gorelik Levitzki Prize in Algebra from the Israel Mathematical Union

Prof. David Harel Doctor Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Milano-Bicocca

Prof. Yoseph Imry Honorary Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Jacob Klein Kolthoff Prize from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Prof. Moshe Levy Elected an Honorary Member of the Israel Polymers and Plastics Society

Prof. Yitzhak Maron The Plasma Science and Applications Award from the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA

Prof. David Milstein The Israel Chemical Society Prize

Prof. Ron Naaman Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry

Dr. Boaz Nadler Kowalski Prize in Chemometrics

Prof. Moshe Oren Elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, USA

Prof. Israel Pecht Elected an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Itamar Procaccia National Italian Decoration of the Italian Solidarity Star (O.S.S.I.)

Prof. Ran Raz Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation

Prof. Michal Schwartz Appointed the Chancellor's Award Lecturer in Neurosciences at Louisiana State University Neuroscience Center; 2007 Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), the Mental Health Research Association

Dr. Eran Segal Overton Prize from the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), USA

Prof. Michael Sela National Italian Decoration of the Italian Solidarity Star (O.S.S.I.)

Prof. Ehud Shapiro Elected the first incumbent of the France Telecom – Orange Excellence Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire (FTO/CRI)

Prof. Moshe Shapiro The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics

Prof. Israel Silman Teva Founders Prize

Prof. Joel Sussman Teva Founders Prize

Prof. Dan Tawfik The Weizmann Prize from Tel Aviv Municipality

Dr. Milko van der Boom The Israel Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists

Prof. David Wallach Appointed Councillor of the International Cytokine Society

Prof. Yosef Yarden Elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; the EMET Prize in Biochemistry awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation

Prof. Ada Yonath The Wolf Prize in Chemistry; the 2008 Linus Pauling Gold Medal from Stanford University; the Paul Erlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Medal, Germany

Dr. Abraham Zangen Medical Futures Innovation Award in the field of Mental Health and Neuroscience, UK

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