Dan David Prize

Pushkar, India. The effect of colonization. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The birth of democracy in India, the way in which the Atlantic slave trade was expressed in visual culture, the secret archive of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, among the winners of the Dan David Prize

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The Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world, announced nine winners for 2024 * The winners - historians, archaeologists and outstanding researchers in the field of history
Nana Oforiatta Ayim Nana Oforiatta Ayim Photo by Nana Oforiatta Ayim

The Dan David Prize for 2022 will be awarded to 9 researchers in the fields of history and archaeology

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Each of them will receive an award of $300,000 for achievements in researching the past and as support for their future work.
and the historians Prof. Alison Bashford, Prof. Catherine Park and Prof. Keith Wailo, winners of the Dan David Award in the Dimension of the Past, 2021. Photo by the Dan David Foundation

Three researchers of the history of medicine won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past tense

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Prof. Alison Bashford, Prof. Catherine Park and Prof. Keith Wailo shared the prize worth one million dollars after, according to the judges, they illuminated the study of the past in a new light - each in their own field.
Prof. Amnon Shashua. Photo: Yonatan Hefner

Prof. Amnon Shashua and the British Demis Hasbis won the Dan David Prize in the Future Dimension

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Christina Figures receives the Dan David Award for the Future Dimension for 2019. Photo: Israel Hadari

"The decisions we will make in the next ten years regarding the climate will affect hundreds and even thousands of years"

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Winners of Dan David scholarships for young researchers. From the right: Padron Rodriguez, Judith Lex, Patricia Akao. Photo: Dan David Foundation

The twenty young researchers who won Dan David scholarships for 2019 have been announced

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Cristina Figueres is the chairperson of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the driving force behind the Paris Agreement. Photo: Julieb Paquin

The winners of the Dan David International Prize for 2019: the guardians of democracy and the initiative of the Paris Climate Convention

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Prof. Jonathan Klover receives the Dan David Award for the present time dimension, for his research in the field of bioethics from the hands of Gabriela David, wife of the late Dan David, and the chairman of the award committee, Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch. Photo: Israel Hadari, for the Dan David Prize

"We must think about the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence and brain enhancement before it's too late"

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DAN-DAVID-STUDENTS-3D printed brain A XNUMXD printed brain in the project of Nela Neufeld, winner of the Dan David scholarship. Photo: Dan David Prize Foundation

20 young scientists won the Dan David scholarship, among them cancer researchers in XNUMXD technologies

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Genetics researcher Prof. Marie Claire King, one of the brides and grooms of the Dan David Prize for 2018. Photo by Dan David Prize committee PR

The winner of the Dan David Award calls on women over the age of 30 to use a home test to detect the risk of cancer

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Prof. Yosef Klefter, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dan David Prize and President of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Itamar Rabinowitz, Chairman of the Dan David Foundation announce the winners of the prize for 2018. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The winners of the 2018 Dan David Prize in the fields of history of science, bioethics have been announced

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Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni receives the Dan David Award in the field of astronomy. Photography: Israel Hadari

"Astronomy has officially become the science of Big Data - after medicine"

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One of the recipients of the scholarship is Vivian Salon, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who examines how the extraction of DNA from the remains of ancient hominids contributed significantly to our understanding of human evolution. (pictured), of a new group of ancient hominids that were relatives of Neanderthal man and lived in Asia. So far, only two other fossils have been attributed to this group, which was called "Denisovans". Source: Peres Dan David.

The 20 students who won Dan David scholarships for 2017 were announced

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A poster showing the theme of the 2017 Dan David Future Dimension Award: Astronomy. From the Dan David Prize website.

The designers of the observation instruments of the 21st century win the Dan David Prize in the future time dimension, dedicated this year to astronomy

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A poster showing the theme of the 2017 Dan David Prize: Archeology and Natural Sciences. From the Dan David Prize website

Two of the researchers who strengthened the connection between the sciences and archeology won the Dan David prize for the dimension of past time

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Prof. Israel Finkelstein, winner of the corresponding prize in 2006, described the revolution passing through the world of archeology and how two researchers from the natural sciences won the Dan David Prize for 2017 in the past tense dimension in the field
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wells and bioinformatics pioneers among the winners of the 2015 Dan David Prize

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Winners of the Dan David Award in the current dimension for 2012: from the right, Prof. John Hardy, Milner, Prof. Brenda Milner, Chairman of the Dan David Award Committee, Prof. Itamar Rabinowitz, Prof. Peter Saint-Georges Hyslop, Ariel David

"Many fewer resources are invested in Alzheimer's research than in heart disease and cancer research, even though the number of patients is similar"

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Prof. Shaul Friedlander. Photo: Dan David Foundation

Holocaust researcher Shaul Friedlander is among the recipients of the Dan David Prize

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Prof. Michel Seres, one of the winners of the Dan David Prize for 2012, in the present time dimension

The winners of the Dan David Prize were announced in the subjects: classical history, contemporary philosophy and epidemiology

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Winners of the Dan David Prize in the Future Dimension, 2012. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

David Botstein, one of the three genome researchers who won the Dan David Award in the future dimension: we are in the development of the era of genomics and personalized medicine

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Dr. Craig Venter

David Botstein, Craig Venter, and Eric Lander won the Dan David Award in the field of genome research

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Dan David From the Dan David Foundation website

The businessman and philanthropist, the late Dan David, one of Tel Aviv University's prominent friends, has passed away.

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Prof. Marcus Feldman

"Recognition of the science of evolution in this period is particularly important"

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Prof. Marcus Feldman

The evolution researcher and experts in the study of aging are among the winners of the 2011 Dan David Prize

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Michael Rabin receives the Dan David Prize for 2010 in the field of computing and communication from the hands of Prof. Itamar Rabinovitch and Danny Levitan

Prof. Michael Rabin at the Dan David Award ceremony: The connection of the virtual world to the real world is close

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Professor Eliez (left) receives the prestigious HH Uhlig Award from Mark J. Byerley, President of the International Society of Corrosion Engineers, NACE International, during the convention in San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy of NACE international

Prof. Noam Eliez from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tel Aviv University won the prestigious HH Uhlig Award

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Gordon Moore. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

Gordon Moore - who was the CEO of Intel and invented Moore's Law and Prof. Michael Rabin among the winners of the 2010 Dan David Prize

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

There are still obstacles to the development of an AIDS vaccine, in the meantime we must help the patients in Africa

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Researchers of the history of the universe will win the Dan David Prize for the dimension of past time

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Al Gore: Renewable energy is good for the Jews

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Winner of the Dan David Prize, archaeologist Israel Finkelstein: Fortunately, there is no thought police in Israel

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

"The Human Genome Project is in a complete mess. We're not even close to the base"

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