Also this year, the bride and groom of the Wolf Prize were presented by the children of the program for scientific development and the future inventors of Israel, who study at the same time in high school and universities, in this article we bring the short speeches of some of the students about themselves and about the winners they present
Also this year, the bride and groom of the Wolf Prize were presented by the children of the program for scientific development and future inventors of the future of Israel, which aims to enable particularly outstanding students (from different regions of the country) to integrate into academic studies and active academic research. The students in the program can accumulate academic courses for credit in the fields of engineering, exact sciences, life sciences and medicine, according to an individual curriculum, and integrate into leading research laboratories at Tel Aviv University.
This time we chose the speeches of five of the children
The student of the program, Ofri Gebso, presents Wolf Prize winner in physics Robert Kirchner
"In the movie "Catch me if you can" Frank Abigail said: "Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out.”
Curiosity is the desire to know, and when it is accompanied by intelligence, it becomes the ability to discover, investigate, ask and ultimately know and innovate. I always liked to ask questions, from a young age I expressed curiosity about the world.
At a young age, when a question would come to my mind, I would turn to my parents, my teachers, and my brother, but when there was no answer, I would open a book or a website and read. I have always loved reading books, in my youth I read fantasy books, these books constituted whole worlds for me when I was lonely, each book was and remains like a treasure for me.
Little by little, as I grew older, I discovered that a book "allows" you to extract a lot of information from it. I expanded my interests from science fiction and fantasy to popular science fiction, history, mythology, psychology and philosophy.
I read about philosophy and Friedrich Nietzsche became my favorite philosopher. Nietzsche searched for meaning for man in the world, I read about mathematics and fell in love with the concept of infinity, I read about history and I was intrigued by the largest empires, I read about mythology and I began to understand that since time immemorial man has searched for answers and meaning, I read about psychology and understood man's effort to understand himself.
Then I came across, completely by chance, a world that captivated me with its charms. I read about physics, physics is a huge subject that is a whole world. This subject investigates the 'is', whether it is visible or not, whether it is in large or small dimensions, physics will deal with it.
One of the first subjects I was exposed to was cosmology, this subject fascinated me in a way that nothing else fascinated me and attracted my curiosity before or since.
At a certain point I came to a conclusion that guides me in my studies and occupations: that my highest goal is to understand the world.
I started to think and read and be interested until the answers arrived, I thought it would satisfy my curiosity but for some reason, the more I got answers to more questions, the more questions opened up and remained unanswered and I realized that the more I learn and the more I know, the more I realize how much what I know is a fraction compared to what I don't know.
After reading and learning comes the stage of drawing conclusions and realizing that these conclusions I want to pass on to future generations. With this understanding I decided to become an instructor in the Bnei Moshavim youth movement, I am the instructor of the XNUMXth grade for boys and I hope that the values I instill in them are the right values.
Music occupies a very large part of my life, music for me is beyond a source of pleasure, it is a form of expression, conveying a message or some emotion. I play the piano and recently started studying music theory.
When I received an email in April 2014 inviting me to an open day for the "Alpha" program for gifted children at Tel Aviv University, I ran to my father and told him "Dad! Please clear your schedule for Thursday. There's an interesting program I should check out."
After the open day, I had to write an essay about a famous person who invented something. I chose Friedrich Nietzsche, his inventions are not material but they are of such great value that they are priceless.
After submitting an essay, I was tested in two tests, the first at the university and the second at the Carney Institute for Identifying Gifted Children. You were very stressed but finally, I passed, and when I got to the opening camp of the program I was also a little stressed, after a few days I realized that it was the best thing that happened to me in my entire life. I met people from all over the country, amazing people, I got to know so many subjects of study and research from all ends of science.
I remember one day I heard a lecture on super novae, I sat transfixed in the front row in front of the lecturer while he was talking about methods for measuring the expansion of the universe using super novae, I eagerly swallowed every word, even though I didn't understand most of the concepts, I decided to take on a task: to learn about super novae.
After I returned home I opened the internet and started reading about the subject. Although I did not know the name of Professor Robert Kirchner, but after researching his work, I realized that the topic I heard in the lecture that day at the camp, was his work. He was a pioneer, a first-rate scientist and a wise man.
To conclude, I will quote Nietzsche from his book "The Genealogy of Morals": "For a long time he listened to my words, but he did not stop in his spirit to listen to my silence as well. Because here at this point, I have a lot to keep quiet."
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for listening to my words and thank you very much for listening to my silence.
Shaked Reich presents Wolf Prize winner in physics James Bjorken
A baby's first syllables are a significant event. And so it was with me. Only that my first word, so they say, was not mother, and it was not father either. But "Teti" - the sweeper - the wonderful machine that fascinated me. Little by little I learned more words and then my first question, at the age of two, (again, so they say) - "How does the fan work?"...
I remember one day I came across the book "I, Robot" by Asimov, and - I discovered my attraction to the science fiction genre. I have read all his books and many other popular science books.
It can be said that like the "strong force" that enables the existence of the protons and neutrons and holds them together inside the nucleus of the atom, so I too am affected by the "strong force" of the pull to understand how things work.
I was lucky and I have the privilege of studying for the past 3 years in the "Scientists and Inventors of the Future" program of Tel Aviv University, towards a bachelor's degree in physics. The program is an extraordinary opportunity for children with a curiosity for knowledge and research to learn and develop together with their friends.
According to Thomas Edison, a genius breakthrough consists of 99 percent inspiration and XNUMX percent hard work. Such a significant contribution, like that of Professor James Bjorken, is undoubtedly a genius breakthrough. For me and for my friends, she definitely inspires and desires to win through hard work. It is a great honor for me to be in this position.
Sean Galantzan introduces Professor James Arthur, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Hello, I'm Sean, and today I'm 13 years old. Ever since I can remember, I've loved math.
When I was 4 years old during the Second Lebanon War, I received a bullet, which includes a radio inside. When I played with the ball and kicked it, I turned on the radio in the ball. A station was turned on where they were talking and I didn't understand what they were saying there, I asked my parents "What is this?" And they answered me that it was news, after listening for a few seconds I said "If they don't say 'Hezbollah is shooting at a city' it's not real news".
When I was 9 years old, I started studying mathematics in my free time, and I loved doing it, after two years, my father and I decided that I would go to high school early, and this year I am graduating high school in mathematics. In addition to this, this year I started studying in the Scientists and Inventors of the Future program, in which I and 5th graders from around the country study physics courses at Tel Aviv University.
Today, I understand that the important news is not about wars and conflicts, it is about scientists and mathematicians who succeed with their skills in leading the world forward.
Due to my great love for mathematics, I was chosen to announce Professor James Arthur who won the Wolf Prize for mathematics, for having contributed greatly to the field of harmonic analysis, by generalizing the trace formula of the mathematician Atle Selberg to a group, to any reductive group. Professor James Arthur's ideas, achievements and techniques had many other important uses in mathematics, and his work will inspire generations of mathematicians in the future.
Prof. James Arthur won the Wolf Prize in the mathematics category
Daniel Harsonsky Sherid presents the winners of the Wolf Prize for Medicine
I'm Daniel and I'm very excited to be here today, part of the announcement of the winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine.
For me, being a doctor is a mission, the work that takes care of the most important thing to me - health, saving people's lives.
I am very interested in chemistry and biology, and that is why I decided to start taking courses in these fields at the university right now.
In their research, the prize winners understood the processes of recognition and action that occur in the immune system. The T cells in the immune system have antibodies - proteins that bind to antigens (which are substances that mark cells). The antigens mark the pathogens, the foreign factors that may harm the body, and thus the cells of the immune system recognize and destroy them.
The study of the immune system is a field that is very interesting to me. We started learning a little about it as part of the biology course, and as soon as I received the winners' reasons for winning with a brief explanation of the processes they discovered, I immediately looked for additional reading materials on these processes, and began researching the topic.
In my opinion, this is a field whose understanding could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment and prevention of diseases, and I think that even when I grow up I will want to explore this field.
Three immune system researchers have won the Wolf Prize for Medicine
Siwar Al-Assad presents Jessie Norman, winner of the Wolf Prize for Art - in the field of music
Jesse Norman set a goal, worked hard, studied and finally in my eyes achieved it all.
This is the winner of the Wolf Prize, Jesse Norman; A woman who didn't think only of herself and her achievements but also saw and found something special in others without any regard or race, gender or religion.
She didn't just see or think about others like we all do, she cooperated in many important social activities and especially for the eradication of serious diseases.
And that is exactly what characterizes her in my eyes and what connected me to her. I participate in a foundation whose goal is to put a smile on the faces of children who unfortunately have cancer. So when I knew about Jessie Norman's tremendous personality I thought she needed a special award of her own.
Jessie didn't stop at one area, she combined what she loves and that is her amazing art and voice and her kind heart that thinks about society, the world.
Everything I've talked about so far is exactly what pushed me to move forward and stand up for myself.
The combination that Jessie made between art and social actions for others is exactly the same combination that I make between science and art and social actions for myself and others. I'm still at the beginning, but Jesse's special life encourages me and proves to me that on this path there will always be a lit light to help me get through the difficulties of that path.
There is always a side that encourages the other side, from my little experience as a participant in the Alpha program - which is why I am standing here. The program opened a door for me on a social level, I got to know the other side (the Jewish sector) that I always thought they hated me and looked at me as the other, and I discovered that it is like our fingers are not alike. That was all the difference in my life and my opinions.
The last connection between me and the winner Jesse Norman is the art itself in its broad fields. I write poetry.
Rina Harsovsky introduces Murray Farahia, winner of the Wolf Prize in the field of music
When I heard the name of the winner whom I will introduce and the field - music, I went straight to the Internet to hear his performances from all over the world.
I spent hours next to the screen and was amazed by the power of the music and the strength of emotions that he manages to express through the piano.
I enjoy learning languages, and here before me is a language I have never studied before.
Mari Farahia plays with such skill and emotion that the listener understands the language even if he doesn't speak it himself. And when he plays, you can really feel that music is an international language. A language that is understood through the heart.
Despite a repeated injury to his hand which prevented him from playing for long periods, he did not give up on his dream and love of playing and returned to perform.
That's why Murray Farahia is an inspiration to me, that there is nothing that stands in the way of desire, dreams and perseverance and there is no limit to success and achievements.
about the students
Shawn Glentzen (Scientists and Inventors of the Future program) - winner Prof. James G. Arthur
Seventh Grade,
Age: 13
School: Harvest
Residence: Streets
Fields of study: physics and mathematics
Hobbies: piano, robotics (FLL) swimming, virtual course in game theory
Ofri Gebso (Alpha program) - presents the winner in physics in the field of astronomy - Prof. Robert P. Kirchner
tenth grade
Age: 15 years old
School: Kiryat Shekhin Experimental Dror
Residence: Tzur Moshe
Extended / special fields of study: In formal settings I extend physics and chemistry to the extent of five units. In addition, I research the topic of conduction between insulators in the physics of condensed matter in the "Alpha" program.
In self-study I study mathematics, physics, psychology, history and philosophy.
Hobbies: I like to play the piano and study music theory, I've been playing for a year and a half.
I really like reading books (science fiction, fantasy, exact sciences, humanities and plays), listening to music and studying.
I am an instructor in the "Bnei Moshavim" youth movement
Physics wins second in the field - Almond Ray(Scientists and inventors of the future program) - Prof. Robert F. Kirchner
eleventh grade
Age: 16 years old
School: The Green Village
Residence: Ramat Hasharon
Fields of study: physics and mathematics and computers
Hobbies: Robotics (FLL) Martial arts
Art, piano - Rina Sebastianov (Alpha program) presents the pianist Murray Prahia
Grade: 4th
Age: 16
School: Makif C Ashdod
Residence: Ashdod
Extended / special fields of study: I am expanding physics and biology at school, doing a thesis in biology at the university through Alpha, expanding my knowledge in Olympiads and various competitions,
Hobbies and any other unique muffin: I am a competitive swimmer in the Ashdod team and guide the XNUMXth graders in the Madchim youth movement.
Art, Jazz - Sewar Al Asad (Alpha Program) presents soprano Jessie Norman
tenth grade
School: Al-Ahlia-Atid Umm-Al-Fahm
Residence: Umm Al Fahm
Hobbies: joining discussion circles especially in politics/ dancing/ reading about interesting sciences.
A special feature: Sara writes poems in English and Arabic. There is a big chance that I will go to the United States for a peace camp. I have the ability to stand on stage and speak (I've already done it many times) from a young age.
Extended/special fields of study: electronic and computer systems and physics.
Agriculture - Daniel Chen (Alpha program) introduces Prof. Linda Y. Saif
tenth grade'
The high school near the university (Lida),
Age: 15 years old,
Residence: Lives in Jerusalem.
Extended fields of study (5 units of study) - mathematics, English, biology (extended honors course. Application for matriculation a year earlier, as well as studying additional subjects during the year), physics (extended honors course. Studying additional subjects that are not included in matriculation during the year), Alpha
Activities outside of school - Scout training in the Ariel tribe (XNUMXth grade girls' group)
Hobbies - painting (a workshop during the summer, art for two years as an extended subject at school), writing (I participate once a week in a creative writing workshop), theater (I participated for 5 years in a group at the Khan Theater, which combines participation in a production and studying theater and drama).
medicine - Daniel Khersonsky a relic (Scientists and Inventors of the Future Program) – Prof. Jeffrey Rabach and Prof. John Kappler and Prof. Philippa Marak
Ninth grade'
Age: 14
School: Shmuel HaNagid Division
Place of residence: Herzliya
Fields of study: in the Bio-Med track you study chemistry, biology and biochemical foundations of medicine.
Hobbies: I dance ballet
More of the topic in Hayadan:
- The future generation of Israeli scientists
- Scientists and inventors of the future are still in high school and already studying at university
