Prizes and Honors

Awards to Scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science from
September 2009 to August 2010

Prof. Lia Addadi The 2009 Prize for Excellence from the Israel Chemical Society

Prof. Uri Alon Recognized by Thomson Reuters for a highly cited paper published between 2000 and 2009

Dr. Ehud Altman The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research

Prof. Ruth Arnon Elected President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari Elected a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery

Dr. Michael Bendikov The 2009 Excellent Young Scientist Prize from the Israel Chemical Society

Dr. Alon Chen The Novartis Prize in Neuroendocrinology from the Israel Endocrine Society

Prof. Irun Cohen The 2009 European Federation of Immunological Societies – Immunology Letters Lecture Award

Prof. Yadin Dudai Appointed a member of the Aspen Brain Forum’s Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Michael Eisenbach The Professor Israel (Izzy) Sarov Prize of the Israel Society for Microbiology

Prof. Esra Galun Awarded honorary membership in the Genetic Society of Israel

Prof. Yuval Gefen Elected a fellow of the American Physical Society

Prof. Daniella Goldfarb The International Zavoisky Award from the Zavoisky Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser The 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science

Prof. Jonathan Gressel The Israel Prize for agriculture

Prof. Yoram Groner The Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences

Prof. David Harel Elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Mordehai (Moty) Heiblum Appointed an honorary fellow of the Ort Braude College of Engineering

Prof. Ora Kedem Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Water Association

Prof. Gady Kozma The Rollo Davidson Prize for Young Probabilists from the Rollo Davidson Trust, University of Cambridge

Prof. Meir Lahav The 2009 Medal of the Israel Chemical Society

Prof. Doron Lancet Re-elected to the Council of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz The 2009 Medal of the Israel Chemical Society

Dr. Anat Levin Eurographics Young Researcher Award; TR35 Young Innovator Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review; the Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

Dr. Gil Levkowitz The J. Salomon Research Award in Biotechnology from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

Dr. David Margulies Career Development Award from the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization

Prof. Emanuel Mazor Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, presented by the President of Israel

Dr. Ron Milo Recognized by Thomson Reuters for a highly cited paper published between 2000 and 2009

Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel The Hestrin Prize from the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Prof. Itamar Procaccia Elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Prof. Samuel Safran The Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize

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

Prof. Michael Sela An honorary doctorate from Israel’s College of Management

Prof. Dan Tawfik Elected a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization

Prof. Edriss S. Titi The Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics’ Activity Group on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Prof. Alexander Tsafriri Awarded honorary membership in the Israel Fertility Association

Prof. Daniel Hanoch Wagner The Gutwirth Prize

Prof. Stephen Weiner The 2009 Prize for Excellence from the Israel Chemical Society

Prof. Yosef Yarden Gold Medal of the Israeli Society for Clinical Oncology and Radiation Therapy; recognized by Thomson Reuters for a highly cited paper published between 2000 and 2009

Prof. Ada Yonath The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; the Erice Science for Peace Prize from the government of Italy

Dr. Abraham Zangen The Sieratzki-Korczyn Prize for Advances in Neuroscience