Honors awarded to Academic Staff of the Weizmann Institute during 2011
Name
Department
Honor
Prof. Lia Addadi Department of Structural Biology Awarded the Aminoff Prize for Crystallography by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences Prof. Ruth Arnon Department of Immunology Elected to receive a Ph.D. honoris causa from Tel Aviv University Prof. David Cahen Department of Materials and Interfaces Elected as a Fellow of American Vacuum Society (AVS), Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing, Nashville, USA Prof. David Cahen Department of Materials and Interfaces Awarded the ICS Prize of Excellence Dr. Alon Chen Department of Neurobiology Awarded the Hans Lindner Prize by the Israel Endocrine Society Prof. Nir Davidson Department of Physics of Complex Systems Elected as a Fellow of the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America (OSA) Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Appointed as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Ort Braude College in Karmiel Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Delivered the 12th Annual Carl P. Duncan Lecture, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA Prof. Yadin Dudai Department of Neurobiology Deliverd the Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Lecture in the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society, Seville Prof. Michael Fainzilber Department of Biological Chemistry Awarded the IRP-Schellenberg Prize Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research Prof. Daniella Goldfarb Department of Chemical Physics Awarded the Kolthoff Prize from the Technion Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Recipient of the IEEE Emanuel Piore Award
Online announcementProf. Eilam Gross Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Appointed as a new convener of the Higgs physics group for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN Prof. Jacob Klein Department of Materials and Interfaces Recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award Prof. Jacob Klein Department of Materials and Interfaces Elected as an "Honorary Member" of the Israel Polymers and Plastics Society Prof. Gershom (Jan) Martin Department of Organic Chemistry Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
Online announcementDr. Alexander Milov Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Appointed as a new convener of the Heavy Ions group for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN Prof. David Milstein Department of Organic Chemistry Recipient of a Meitner Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prof. David Milstein Department of Organic Chemistry Delivered the 2011 Lewis Lecture at Cambridge University, UK Prof. David Milstein Department of Organic Chemistry Invited to deliver the Ernest H. Swift Lecture at California Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Ron Naaman Department of Chemical Physics Recipient of the IVS (Israel Vacuum Society) Research Excellence Prize Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel Department of Molecular Genetics Elected as a Member of the EMBO Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel Department of Molecular Genetics Lecturer at the Distinguished Lecture Series, McGill University
Online announcementProf. Itamar Procaccia Department of Chemical Physics Awarded the Gauss Professorship from the Academy of Science in Göttingen Prof. Varda Rotter Department of Molecular Cell Biology Elected as the President of the Israel Society for Cancer Research (ISCR) Prof. Michal Schwartz Department of Neurobiology Appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester, UK Prof. Michael Sela Department of Immunology Promoted to Commander in the National Order of the Legion of Honour by decree of the President of the French Republic Prof. Noam Sobel Department of Neurobiology Awarded the Juludan Research Prize from the Technion Prof. Victor Steinberg Department of Physics of Complex Systems Chosen as an Outstanding Referee for the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals by the Journal Editors for 2011 Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Materials and Interfaces Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Materials and Interfaces Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Materials and Interfaces Invited to deliver the Prof. C.N.R. Rao Award Lecture of the 14th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, India Prof. Reshef Tenne Department of Materials and Interfaces Recipient of a Plenary Speaker Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Shimon Ullman Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prof. David Wallach Department of Biological Chemistry Elected as the President of the International Cytokine Society Prof. Stephen Weiner Department of Structural Biology Awarded the Aminoff Prize for Crystallography by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences Prof. Meir Wilchek Department of Biological Chemistry Recipient of the Israel Chemical Society's (ICS) Medal Prof. Meir Wilchek Department of Biological Chemistry Re-Elected as a Member of Bar-Ilan University's Board of Governors and its Standing Committee Prof. Daniel Zajfman Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics Elected to the Senate of the Max Planck Society