Prof. Eli Keshet will receive the Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences Prof. Avner de Shalit will receive the Rothschild Prize in Social Sciences - both from the Hebrew University. Prof. Shlomo Havlin from Bar Ilan University was also awarded in the chemical and physical sciences and Prof. Shlomo Shamai from the Technion will receive the Rothschild Prize in mathematics/computer science and engineering.
Two researchers from the Hebrew University, a researcher from Bar-Ilan and a researcher from the Technion won the prestigious Rothschild Prize for 2014
Prof. Avner de Shalit and Prof. Eli Keshet from the Hebrew University will receive the Rothschild Prize for 2014. The prestigious prize has been awarded since 1959 by Yad Handiv as a token of appreciation for exceptional and original research work in a variety of scientific fields, where in some fields it is awarded every two years and in others every four years.
Prof. Avner de Shalit from the Department of Political Science will receive the Rothschild Prize in Social Sciences. Prof. de Shalit will receive the award for his groundbreaking contribution to the expansion of political theory into new areas, and in particular for his research on future generations as political actors and the rising political power of the city at the expense of the state. De Shalit's use of empirical findings based on surveys and interviews for rethinking normative political theory is noteworthy.
De Shalit was born in 1957 in Israel. He studied for a bachelor's degree in political science at the Hebrew University and received a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Oxford. De Shalit served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University and published a series of books on topics such as cities, disadvantaged populations, democracy, justice and the environment, future generations, socialism and political philosophy.
Prof. Eli Keshet from the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research at the Faculty of Medicine will receive the Rothschild Prize in Life Sciences. Prof. Keshet will receive the award for his pioneering work in the biology of blood vessels and for clarifying the mechanisms responsible for the creation of new blood vessels (a protein known as VEGF).
Keshet was born in Israel in 1945. He received his training in biology and biochemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he also completed his doctoral studies in 1975. He studied at the University of Wisconsin on the molecular biology of retroviruses, a subject he focused on at the beginning of his research career. Keshet's research forms the basis of the development of new treatment methods for conditions of myocardial insufficiency and blinding retinal diseases, and also contributed to the development of anti-cancer drugs that work by neutralizing the tumor's ability to attract blood vessels to it.
Prof. Shlomo Havlin, from Bar-Ilan University - winner of the 2014 Rothschild Prize in Chemical and Physical Sciences
The Rothschild Prize for the year 2014 in the chemical and physical sciences is awarded to Prof. Shlomo Havlin from Bar Ilan University, for his "extraordinary contribution in the field of statistical physics of complex systems and its extensive influence on fields such as mathematics, computer science and biology".
Shlomo Havlin is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University. Former Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He has published close to 700 articles in leading journals that have received the most citations. Among his outstanding studies, the following examples are worth mentioning.
In 1992, in an article published in Nature, Prof. Heblin discovered special patterns in the DNA chains. In recent years, these patterns have led to the understanding of the function of large parts of DNA that were previously considered non-functional.
Prof. Havlin headed a study, in collaboration with colleagues from Israel and Germany, which revealed that earthquakes create statistical patterns, which can be used to improve the predictability of their recurrence. The study was published in 2005 in the journal Physical Review Letters of the American Physical Society.
Prof. Heblin's research in the 2000s broke new mathematical paths in the field of networks that brought
for extensive interdisciplinary research activity. In 2010, he published the theory in the journal Nature that made it possible to study the effects of the interaction between networks. In 2010, he was awarded the prestigious Lielenfeld Prize of the American Physical Society for discovering and opening this Torah. Prof. Havlin is the only one in Israel who has won this prize, which is awarded every two years for a most extraordinary contribution to physics.
Prof. Shlomo Shamai of the Technion will receive the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering for his consistent fundamental contribution to the field of information theory, the mathematical theory of communication that is currently used in the most advanced communication technologies.
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On my screen I see that the article is from November 20. You were probably tired and the 2 looked like a 3.
Really news from the future???
The date of the article is 30.11.2013 and today is only the 21st.. 🙂