Dan David Prize
| Dan David Prize | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | outstanding contribution in the fields of science, technology, culture or social welfare |
| Country | Israel |
| Presented by | The Dan David Foundation |
| First awarded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.dandavidprize.org |
Jimmy Wales Accepting the Dan David Prize at the Tel Aviv University, 2015
The Dan David Prize grants annually three prizes of US$1 million each for outstanding achievement. Fields are chosen for Past, Present and Future.
The Dan David Prize is awarded for innovative and interdisciplinary research. Prize laureates donate 10 percent of their prize money to doctoral scholarships for outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholarships for outstanding researchers in their own field from around the world.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Laureates
3 References
4 External links
History
The Dan David Foundation was founded in 2000 with a $100 million endowment by Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist Dan David.[2] The Founding Director was Professor Gad Barzilai. The foundation and Tel Aviv University award the prizes. The first awards ceremony took place at Tel Aviv University on May 2002.
In 2016, Catherine Hall of University College London rejected the Dan David Prize. Her prize money was donated to fund scholarships at Tel Aviv University.[3]
Laureates
| Year | Theme | Laureate |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Past – History | Warburg Library |
Present – Technology, Information and Society | Daniel Hillis | |
Future – Life sciences | Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, Robert Waterston | |
| 2003 | Past – Paleoanthropology | Michel Brunet |
Present – Print & electronic media | James Nachtwey,[4]Frederick Wiseman[5] | |
Future – cosmology & astronomy | John Bahcall | |
| 2004 | Past – Cities: Historical legacy | Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem |
Present – Leadership: Changing our World | Klaus Schwab | |
Future – Brain sciences | Robert Wurtz, Amiram Grinvald, William Newsome | |
| 2005 | Past- Archaeology | Graeme Barker, Israel Finkelstein |
Present – The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music | Peter Brook | |
Future – Materials science | Robert Langer, George Whitesides, C.N.R. Rao | |
| 2006 | Past – Music | Yo-Yo Ma |
Present – Journalism | Magdi Allam, Monica Gonzalez, Adam Michnik, Goenawan Mohamad | |
Future – Treatment of cancer | John Mendelsohn, Joseph Schlessinger | |
| 2007 | Past – Historians | Jacques Le Goff |
Present – Contemporary Music | Pascal Dusapin, Zubin Mehta | |
Future – Quest for Energy | James E. Hansen, Jerry Olson, Sarah Kurtz | |
| 2008 | Past – Creative Rendering of the Past | Amos Oz, Tom Stoppard, Atom Egoyan |
Present – Social Responsibility | Al Gore[6] | |
Future – Geosciences | Ellen Mosley-Thompson & Lonnie Thompson, Geoffrey Eglinton | |
| 2009 | Past – Astrophysics – History of the Universe | Paolo de Bernardis, Andrew E. Lange, Paul Richards[7] |
Present – Leadership | Tony Blair[7] | |
Future – Global Public Health | Robert Gallo[7] | |
| 2010 | Past – March Towards Democracy | Giorgio Napolitano |
Present – Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century | Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh | |
Future – Computers and Telecommunications | Leonard Kleinrock, Gordon E. Moore, Michael O. Rabin | |
| 2011 | Past – Evolution | Marcus Feldman |
Present – Cinema and Society | Coen Brothers[8] | |
Future – Ageing -Facing the Challenge | Cynthia Kenyon, Gary Ruvkun | |
| 2012 | Past – History/Biography | Robert Conquest, Sir Martin Gilbert |
Present – Plastic Arts | William Kentridge | |
Future – Genome Research | David Botstein, Eric Lander, J. Craig Venter | |
| 2013 | Past – Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World | Sir Geoffrey Lloyd |
Present – Ideas, Public Intellectuals and Contemporary Philosophers | Michel Serres, Leon Wieseltier | |
Future – Preventive Medicine | Esther Duflo, Alfred Sommer | |
| 2014 | Past – History and Memory | Krzysztof Czyzewski, Pierre Nora, Saul Friedlander |
Present – Combating Memory Loss | John A. Hardy, Peter St. George-Hyslop, Brenda Milner | |
Future – Artificial Intelligence, The Digital Mind | Marvin Minsky | |
| 2015 | Past – Retrieving the Past: Historians and their Sources | Peter Brown, Alessandro Portelli |
Present – The Information Revolution | Jimmy Wales | |
Future – Bioinformatics | Cyrus Chothia, David Haussler, Michael Waterman | |
| 2016 | Past – Social History - New Directions | Inga Clendinnen, Arlette Farge |
Present – Combatting Poverty | Anthony B. Atkinson, Francois Bourguignon, James J. Heckman | |
Future – Nanoscience | Paul Alivisatos, Chad Mirkin, John Pendry | |
| 2017 | Past - Archeology and Natural Sciences | Svante Pääbo, David Reich |
Present - Literature | Jamaica Kincaid, A. B. Yehoshua | |
Future - Astronomy | Neil Gehrels, Shrinivas Kulkarni, Andrzej Udalski | |
| 2018 | Past - History of Science | Lorraine Daston, Evelyn Fox Keller, Simon Schaffer |
Present - Bioethics | Ezekiel Emanuel, Jonathan Glover, Mary Warnock | |
Future - Personalized Medicine | Carlo M. Croce, Mary-Claire King, Bert Vogelstein |
References
^ The Dan David Prize Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
^ "The true worth of Dan David – Haaretz – Israel News". Haaretz. Retrieved 2010-02-02..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Prominent Feminist Historian Rejects Israeli Academic Award, Haaretz, 22 May 2016; UK historian declines Israeli prize, citing conflict with Palestinians, Times of Israel, 22 May 2016; Haggai Matar: Famed feminist British historian refuses prestigious Israeli award, +972 Magazine, 22 May 2016; [1], TimesHigherEducation, 23 May 2016.
^ "2003 Present – Print & Electronic Media: James Nachtwey". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^ "Laureates 2003". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^ Al Gore – Present 2008 Laureate – Dan David Prize, TAU Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ abc "Laureates 2009". Dan David Prize. Archived from the original on 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
^ "Coen brothers win $1m Dan David Prize". BBC News. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.The pair were given the Dan David Prize – awarded to people who have made 'an outstanding contribution to humanity' – at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
External links
Official website – includes complete list of all laureates by year.
