Awards And Honors
Awards and Honors Notification form – Weizmann staff only
| Name | Department | Honor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Ronen Alon | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Elected as a member of EMBO | |
| Prof. Abraham Arcavi | Department of Science Teaching | Elected as the new Secretary General of the International Comission on Mathematics Instruction (ICMI) | |
| Prof. Gad Asher | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Recipient of a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Career Development Award | |
| Prof. Brian Berkowitz | Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences | Recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award from the National Ground Water Association, USA | |
| Prof. Irit Dinur | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the Erdos Prize in Mathematics by the Israel Mathematical Union | |
| Prof. Yadin Dudai | Department of Brain Sciences | Elected as an "Honorary Member" of the Argentinian Society for Research in Neuroscience | |
| Prof. Nirit Dudovich | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Awarded the IPS Prize for a Young Physicist by the Israel Physical Society | |
| Prof. Nirit Dudovich | Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Awarded the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics | |
| Prof. Alexander Finkelstein | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize | |
| Prof. Sarel-jacob Fleishman | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Recipient of a Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Career Development Award | |
| Prof. Sarel-jacob Fleishman | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Elected as a Place winner of Gen9's inaugural G-prize | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Appointed as Chief Editor of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance | |
| Prof. Lucio Frydman | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Appointed as Chairman of the European Magnetic Resonance Association Board of Trustees | |
| Prof. Eilam Gross | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Deliverd the Tenth Oscar van Leer Lecture | |
| Prof. Jacob (yaqub) Hanna | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected as an EMBO Young Investigator | |
| Prof. David Harel | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eindhoven University of Technology | |
| Prof. Adi Kimchi | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Cell Death by the International Cell Death Society | |
| Prof. Adi Kimchi | Department of Molecular Genetics | Recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation | |
| Prof. Adi Kimchi | Department of Molecular Genetics | Elected as a Member of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences | |
| Prof. Jacob Klein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Awarded the Tribology Gold Medal by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers | |
| Prof. Leeor Kronik | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Appointed as a Member of the new "Young Israel Academy" | |
| Prof. Ron Milo | Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences | Elected as an EMBO Young Investigator | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Prof. David Milstein | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected as the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (RuCheMS) Lecturer | |
| Prof. Nir Orion | Department of Science Teaching | Recipient of the International Union of Geo Science (IUGS) Excellence Award on Geological Education | |
| Prof. Israel Pecht | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Appointed as an Honorary Member of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Sociedad Espaoola de Bioquomica Biologica Molecular, SE | |
| Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel | Department of Molecular Genetics | Received the Bruno Award, established by Yad Hanadiv Foundation | |
| Prof. Itamar Procaccia | Department of Chemical and Biological Physics | Awarded a Ph.D. Honoris Causa by the Minister of Science in Brazil at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Natal, Brazil) | |
| Prof. Yair Reisner | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the Samuel and Paula Elkales Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine | |
| Prof. Adi Shamir | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Recipient of the Gold Medal of the French Academie des Sciences | |
| Prof. Noam Sobel | Department of Brain Sciences | Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Sciences | |
| Prof. Rotem Sorek | Department of Molecular Genetics | Awarded the ISM Nili Rubinsowitz-Grossman Prize for outstanding young scientist in the field of microbiology | |
| Prof. Amos Tanay | Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. Reshef Tenne | Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science | Elected a Foreign Member of the Academic Europaea | |
| Prof. Itzhak Tserruya | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Awarded the Medal of Honour of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia | |
| Prof. Itzhak Tserruya | Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics | Appointed as the Chairperson of the Program Advisory Committee for High Energy Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) at Dubna, Ru | |
| Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky | Department of Brain Sciences | Awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research | |
| Prof. David Wallach | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Elected as the President of the International Cytokine Society | |
| Prof. David Wallach | Department of Biomolecular Sciences | Recipient of the Rappaport Prize for Biomedical Sciences | |
| Prof. Yosef Yarden | Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology | Recipient of the Susan G. Komen "for the Cure" Briker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Research | |
| Prof. Eli Zeldov | Department of Condensed Matter Physics | Awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais for Exact Sciences |

