The prize distribution ceremony will take place on January 13 at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University
The Bruno Awards for the late Michael Bruno will be awarded this year on January 13, 2013 at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University. The three recipients of the award for 2012 are: Prof. David Enoch, Head of the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Prof. Yuval Dor from the Israel Canada Medical Research Institute at the Hebrew University, as well as Prof. Yitzhak Falpel from the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The awards are given annually to Israeli scientists and researchers under the age of fifty who have demonstrated exceptional talent and creativity in their academic work and have been identified as having the potential for significant breakthroughs in their field. In addition to the award, the researchers receive a personal financial grant and a research grant.
Prof. Eliezer Rabinovitch, who served until about a month ago as the head of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, and now serves as the head of the Rakah Institute for Physics at the Hebrew University, said on the occasion of the event: "The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University is proud to serve as the new home of the Bruno Awards. It is a privilege to recruit researchers with exceptional talent and to cherish their dedication to their research fields."
Prof. Yuval Dor from the Israel-Canada Medical Research Institute at the Hebrew University will receive the award for his research into deciphering the regeneration processes of beta cells in the pancreas, the cells that produce insulin. According to him: "I am grateful for the trust they placed in me. My research focuses on the biology of the beta cells with the aim of finding a new way of treating diabetes, different from the existing and problematic treatment method of insulin injection."
Prof. David Enoch, head of the philosophy department at the Hebrew University, will receive the award this year for his unique and original contribution in the fields of political philosophy, moral philosophy, ethics and metaethics. According to him: "I don't work to get an award, but it's really embarrassing as pleasant as it is. deals with the defense of an extreme version of moral realism, according to which there are completely objective moral facts that we discover and do not create. If there are such moral facts, it is possible that one person will know them better than another person and it is possible to turn to him for advice on the matter.
Prof. Yitzhak Papel from the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science will receive the award this year for his research in the field of the genome, the collection of genes encoded in DNA. According to him: "My research deals with the function of the genome and its development, as well as what happens to it in disease states, especially cancer. In our research laboratory, we found that even simple creatures like bacteria can acquire predictive abilities and adapt themselves in advance to future changes in the environment."
Since last year no ceremony was held, this year Bruno awards will also be awarded to my sons-in-law from last year: Prof. Danny Fox, head of the Center for Language, Logic and Cognition at the Hebrew University, Prof. Ram Sri from the Rekh Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University, Prof. Hagit Atiya from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Prof. Adiel Shermer, Head of the Halpern Center for Studies of Self-Consciousness in the Jewish Tradition at Bar-Ilan University.
The Bruno Awards were first awarded in 1999. Michael Peter Bruno was an Israeli economist who served, among other things, as the fifth governor of the Bank of Israel, president of the Econometric Society and a member of the Department of Economics at the Hebrew University. He also served as chairman of the Rothschild Prize Organization. With his sudden death in 1996, it was decided to dedicate the awards to his memory.
