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Prizes and Honors
Awards to Scientists of the Weizmann Institute of Science from
September 2010 to August 2011
Prof. Lia Addadi The Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Prof. Ruth Arnon Ph.D. honoris causa from Tel Aviv University
Prof. Vladimir Berkovich The Lise Meitner – Alexander von Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Prof. David Cahen Elected a fellow of the American Vacuum Society
Dr. Alon Chen The Hans Lindner Prize of the Israel Endocrine Society
Prof. Nir Davidson Elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America
Prof. Hadassa Degani Teva Founders Prize
Prof. Yadin Dudai Delivered the 12th Annual Carl P. Duncan Lecture at Northwestern University; appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of Ort Braude College in Karmiel, Israel
Prof. Michael Fainzilber IRP – Schellenberg Prize for Research from the International Foundations for Research in Paraplegia
Prof. Lucio Frydman The Minister of Immigrant Absorption’s Prize for Outstanding Scientists
Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam The Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research; the 2010 Israel Physical Society’s Prize for a Young Physicist
Prof. Daniella Goldfarb The Kolthoff Prize from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser The Emanuel R. Piore Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Prof. Eilam Gross Appointed convener of the Higgs physics group for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Prof. Haim Harari Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Prof. David Harel The EMET Prize in Computer Science awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Prof. Jacob Klein The Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry; the 2010 Israel Chemical Society Prize
Prof. Leeor Kronik The 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Prize from the Israel Chemical Society
Dr. Alexander Milov Appointed convener of the heavy ions group for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Prof. David Milstein The Lise Meitner – Alexander von Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; the 2010 Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Prof. Ron Naaman The Research Excellence Prize from the Israel Vacuum Society
Prof. Itamar Procaccia Appointed Gauss Professor by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Michael Sela Promoted to Commander in the National Order of the Legion of Honour by decree of the President of the French Republic
Prof. Victor Steinberg Named an Outstanding Referee by the editors of the American Physical Society journals
Prof. Reshef Tenne Elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; invited to deliver the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture at the 14thNational Symposium in Chemistry of the Chemical Research Society of India
Prof. Shimon Ullman Elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. David Wallach Elected President of the International Cytokine Society
Prof. Stephen Weiner The Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Prof. Meir Wilchek The 2010 Israel Chemical Society Medal; re-elected a member of Bar-Ilan University’s board of governors and standing committee
Prof. Dan Yakir Appointed Israel’s representative to the Integrated Carbon Observation System; elected a member of the board of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences and also of the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat
Prof. Yosef Yarden The 2010 Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; the 2010 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine from the University of Debrecen, Hungary
