Annual Report 2008 » Prizes and Honors

Awards to Scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science from September 2007 to August 2008

Prof. Ruth Arnon  Reelected Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; the Aesku Prize for Life Contribution to Autoimmunity from the 6th International Congress on Autoimmunity; an honorary Yakir Tel-Hai distinction from the Tel-Hai Academic College

Prof. Naama Barkai  Elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO); the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award

Dr. Roy Bar-Ziv  The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Prof. David Cahen  The Landau Prize for Science and Research in the area of alternative energy

Prof. Michael Eisenbach  Elected President of the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Prof. Yuval Gefen Elected a fellow of the Institute of Physics, London

Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser  Athena Lecturer Award for Research that Advanced Secure Internet Transactions from the Association for Computing Machinery

Prof. Jonathan Gressel  Outstanding International Achievement Award from the International Weed Science Society

Prof. Yoram Groner  The EMET Prize in Life Sciences awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation

Prof. Eilam Gross Appointed to convene the Statistics Forum of ATLAS at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Prof. David Harel  Elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery

Prof. Mordehai (Moty) Heiblum  The Rothschild Prize in Physical Sciences; elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Dr. Ernesto Joselevich  Excellent Young Scientist Prize from the Israel Chemical Society

Prof. Yoseph Imry  Elected a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences

Prof. Ora Kedem  Honorary Doctorate from the University of Twente, The Netherlands

Prof. Adi Kimchi  Teva Founders Prize; elected to the Academia Europaea

Dr. Ilan Koren  Outstanding Paper Award from Environmental Research Letters, Institute of Physics Publishing, U.K.

Dr. Gady Kozma  The Anna and Lajos Erdos Prize in Mathematics from the Israel Mathematical Union

Prof. Gershon Kurizki  The Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics

Prof. Doron Lancet  Elected to the Council of the Human Genome Organization

Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin  Nominated the 2008 Robert S. Mulliken Lecturer at the University of Georgia

Prof. Michal Neeman  Elected a fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Prof. Moshe Oren  The Israel Prize in biochemistry

Prof. Israel Pecht  Elected Secretary-General of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (the Secretariat relocated to the Weizmann Institute)

Prof. David Peleg  The Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing from the Association for Computing Machinery

Prof. Amir Pnueli  Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery

Dr. Moshe Rishpon  Roy L. Shafer Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience from the Association of Science-Technology Centers, awarded to the team headed by Dr. Rishpon for the Joe Weinstein and Major Max L. Shulman EcoSphere

Dr. Eran Segal  European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Award

Prof. Michael Sela  Elected a foreign member of the French National Academy of Medicine

Prof. Yechiel Shai  Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Adi Shamir  The Israel Prize in computer science

Prof. Ehud Shapiro  Chosen to author an article for the 2008 Yearbook of the International Medical Informatics Association

Prof. Nathan Sharon  Elected an Honorary Member of the Croatian Biochemical Society

Prof. Reshef Tenne  Elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society

Prof. Shimon Ullman  The 8th David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition

Prof. Dan Yakir  Elected a member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme’s Scientific Committee

Prof. Yosef Yarden  The Hamilton Fairley Award from the European Society for Medical Oncology

Prof. Ada Yonath  The 10th Annual L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (Europe); Doctor of Science honoris causa from the University of Oxford; elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Honors Program Lecturer at New York University School of Medicine; George E. Palade Distinguished Lecturer and Gold Medal recipient at Wayne State University

Prof. Eli Zeldov  Elected a fellow of the American Physical Society