Category name: Weizmann Women and Science Award

Recipients

Recipients of the 2019 Award:

Prof. Mina J. Bissell

Division Biological Systems and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley University

Prof. Nieng Yan

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Recipients of the 2017 Award:

Prof. Naomi Halas

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Prof. Dr. Ursula Keller

Department Physics, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

Recipient of the 2015 Award:

Prof. Barbara Liskov

Prof. Liskov is an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2002, Prof. Liskov was recognized as one of the top women
faculty members at MIT and among the top 50 faculty members in the sciences in the U.S.

Recipient of the 2013 Award:

Prof. Susan M. Gasser

Prof. Susan M. Gasser, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland

Recipient of the 2011 Award:

Dr. Catherine Bréchignac

Dr. Catherine Bréchignac, President of the International Council for Science and former
president of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research")

Recipient of the 2008 Award:

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn

Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco

Recipient of the 2006 Award:

Dr. Mary-Claire King

Dr. Mary-Claire King, American Cancer Society Research Professor of
Genome Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle

Recipient of the 2004 Award:

Dr. May Berenbaum

Dr. May Berenbaum, Swanlund Professor; Head,
Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Recipient of the 2002 Award:

Dr. Susan Solomon

Dr. Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist, Aeronomy Laboratory,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Recipients of the 2000 Award:

Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus

Dr. Mildred Dresselhaus, Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received the Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Carla J. Shatz

Dr. Carla J. Shatz, Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor and Chair,
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Recipient of the 1998 Award:

Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton

Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, Arthur and Marian Hanisch Professor of Chemistry
at the California Institute of Technology

Recipient of the 1996 Award:

Dr. Vera Rubin

Dr. Vera Rubin, Observational Astronomer, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution

Recipient of the 1994 Award:

Dr. Joan Argetsinger Steitz

Dr. Joan Argetsinger Steitz, a Henry Ford II Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry
at Yale University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute