Awarded to Scientific Personnel by External Entities

Awards and Honors Notification form [2] – Weizmann staff only

Name	Department	Honor
Prof. Eli Arama [3]	Department of Molecular Genetics	Recipient of a Research Career Development Award from Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), USA
Prof. Ruth Arnon [4]	Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology	Awarded the AESKU Prize for Life Contribution to Autoimmunity by the 6th International Congress on Autoimmunity
Prof. Ruth Arnon [4]	Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology	Awarded an honorary "Yakir Tel-Hai" from the Tel-Hai Academic College
Prof. Roy Bar-ziv [5]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Awarded the Wolf Foundation's Krill Prize for Outstanding Research
Prof. Naama Barkai [6]	Department of Molecular Genetics	Recipient of the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award
Prof. Ed Bayer [7]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Elected to the Scientific Advisor Board of the DOE BioEnergy Science Center (BESC)
Prof. David Cahen [8]	Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science	Awarded the Kolthoff Prize from the Technion for his Research in Alternavite Energy Resources
Prof. Irun r. Cohen [9]	Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology	Recipient of the "Teva" Founder Research Prize in Immunology
Prof. Harry Dym [10]	Department of Mathematics	Elected as President of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Yuval Gefen [11]	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, London, UK
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser [12]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Elected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the Athena Award for Research that Advanced Secure Internet Transactions Lecturer
Prof. Jonathan Gressel [13]	Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences	Recipient of the Outstanding International Achievement Award from the International Weed Science Society
Prof. Yoram Groner [14]	Department of Molecular Genetics	Recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation
Prof. Moty Heiblum [15]	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Awarded the Rothschild Prize in Physical Sciences
Prof. Yoseph Imry [16]	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Elected as a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Vyacheslav Kalchenko [17]	Department of Veterinary Resources	Elected as a Fellow of Royal Microscopical Society
Prof. Adi Kimchi [18]	Department of Molecular Genetics	Elected to the Academia Europaea
Prof. Gady Kozma [19]	Department of Mathematics	Recipient of the Anna and Lajos Erdos Prize in Mathematics by Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Robert Krauthgamer [20]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Elected as Treasurer of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Gershon Kurizki [21]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Recipient of the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
Prof. Doron Lancet [22]	Department of Molecular Genetics	Awarded the Landau Prize of Mifal Hapais for Research and Science
Prof. Gil Levkowitz [23]	Department of Molecular Cell Biology	Awarded the Program Committee Award at eh 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Development Neuroscience (ISDN)
Prof. Zeev Luz [24]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Awarded the Israel Chemical Society Medal
Prof. Gershom (jan) Martin [25]	Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science	Nominated as the Robert S. Mulliken Lecturer at the University of Georgia, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, USA
Prof. Israel Pecht [26]	Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology	Elected as the Secretary General of Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
Prof. David Peleg [27]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Awarded the Dijkstra Prize by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Distributed Computing
Prof. Yehiam Prior [28]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Prof. Itamar Procaccia [29]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Elected as a Member of C3, Commission on Statistical Physics (IUPAP)
Prof. Omer Reingold [30]	Department of Condensed Matter Physics	Recipient of the Professor Amnon Pazy Memorial Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Prof. Vered Rom-kedar [31]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Elected as Secretary of the Israel Mathematical Union
Prof. Israel Rubinstein [32]	Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science	Honored by Publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
Prof. Michal Schwartz [33]	Department of Brain Sciences	Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Ben-Gurion Univeristy of the Negev
Prof. Yechiel Shai [34]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Alla Shainskaya [35]	Department of Life Sciences Core Facilities	Elected as the President of the Israeli Society for Mass Spectrometry (ISMS)
Prof. Ehud Shapiro [36]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Authored an article selected to appear in the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics
Prof. Michal Sharon [37]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Recipient of a Research Career Development Award from Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), USA
Prof. Nathan Sharon [38]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Selected to share (with Dr. Robert Spiro) the inaugural Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology
Prof. David Tannor [39]	Department of Chemical and Biological Physics	Awarded the Zahava and Zvi Friedenberg Prize of the Israel Science Foundation
Prof. Reshef Tenne [40]	Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science	Awarded the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Excellence
Prof. Reshef Tenne [40]	Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science	Elected as a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow
Prof. Edriss s. Titi [41]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Elected as a Member of the Commission on Mathematical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
Prof. Shimon Ullman [42]	Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics	Recipient of the 8th David Rumelhart Prize
Prof. Meir Wilchek [43]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Re-Elected as a Member of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Boad of Governors
Prof. Meir Wilchek [43]	Department of Biomolecular Sciences	Re-Elected as a Member of Bar-Ilan University's Board of Governors
Prof. Dan Yakir [44]	Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences	Elected as a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (SC-IGBP)
Prof. Yosef Yarden [45]	Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology	Awarded the Hamilton Fairley Prize by the ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Executive Committee
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Recipient of a Degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa from Oxford University
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Elected to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Recipient of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science Awarded by the Consejo Cultural Mundial
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Elected as the Laureate to represent Europe for "Women in Science" Awards by the L'OREAL-UNESCO International Jury
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Rrecipient of the 10th Annual l'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
Prof. Ada Yonath [46]	Department of Chemical and Structural Biology	Recipient of the George E. Palade Distinguished Lecture and Gold Medal from Wayne State University