Awards And Honors
Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only
| Name | Department | Honor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Lia Addadi | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography of the Royal Academy of Sweedn | |
| Prof. Ruth Arnon | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Elected to a Ph.D. honoris causa from Tel Aviv University | |
| Prof. David Cahen | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Fellow of American Vacuum Society (AVS), Science and Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing, Nashville, USA | |
| Prof. David Cahen | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the ICS (Israel Chemical Society) Prize of Excellence | |
| Prof. Alon Chen | Department of Brain Sciences | Awarded the Lindner Prize by the Israel Endocrine Society (IES) | |
| Prof. Nir Davidson | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Deliverd the Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Lecture in the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society, Seville | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Delivered the 12th Annual Carl P. Duncan Lecture, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Appointed as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Ort Braude College in Karmiel | |
| Prof. Mike Fainzilber | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Awarded the IRP-Schellenberg Prize | |
| Prof. Avishay Gal-yam | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Daniella Goldfarb | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the Kolthoff Prize by the Technion | |
| Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the IEEE Emanuel Piore Award | |
| Prof. 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 Hardon Collider, CERN | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as an "Honorary Member" of the Israel Polymers and Plastics Society | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter and Biophysical Chemistry Award | |
| Prof. Gershom (jan) Martin | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts | |
| Prof. Alexander Milov | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Appointed as a new converner of the Heavy Ions Group for ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Delivered the Lewis Lecture at Cambridge University, UK | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Invited to deliver the Ernest H. Swift Lecture at California Institute of Technology, USA | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of a Meitner Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | |
| Prof. Ron Naaman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Recipient of the IVS (Israel Vacuum Society) Research Excellence Prize | |
| Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected as a member of EMBO | |
| Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel | Department of Molecular Genetics | Lecturer at the Distinguished Lecture Series, McGill University | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded the Gauss Professorship from the Academy of Science in Gottingen | |
| 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 Brain Sciences | Appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester, UK | |
| Prof. Michael Sela | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | 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 Brain Sciences | 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 Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK | |
| Prof. Reshef Tenne | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Prof. Reshef Tenne | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | 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 Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Recipient of a Plenary Speaker Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of the Sieratzki-Korczyn Prize for Advances in Neuroscience | |
| 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 Biomolecular Sciences | Elected as the President of the International Cytokine Society | |
| Prof. Stephen Weiner | Department of Chemical and Structural Biology | Awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize for Crystallography of the Royal Academy of Sweedn | |
| Prof. Meir Wilchek | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Re-Elected as a Member of Bar-Ilan University's Board of Governors | |
| Prof. Meir Wilchek | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Awarded the ICS (Israel Chemical Society) Medal | |
| Prof. Daniel Zajfman | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Elected to the Senate of the Max Planck Society |

