Dan David Prize

Dan David Prize
Awarded for	outstanding contribution in the fields of science, technology, culture or social welfare
Presented by	The Dan David Foundation
Country	Israel
First awarded	2002
Official website	http://www.dandavidprize.org

The Dan David Prize annually awards 3 prizes of $1 million each awarded by the Dan David Foundation and Tel Aviv University to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution in the fields of science, technology, culture or social welfare. There are three prize categories - past, present and future. Prize laureates donate 10 percent of their prize money to outstanding doctoral students and researchers in their own field from around the world.^[1]

History

The Dan David Foundation was founded in 2000 with a $100 million endowment by Romanian-born international businessman and philanthropist Dan David.^[2] The first awards ceremony took place at Tel Aviv University on May 2002. The First Founding Director of the Dan David Prize was Professor Gad Barzilai and the foundation is now chaired by Itamar Rabinovich, former president of Tel Aviv University. In 2007, the ceremony was held at Opéra de Paris. Supporters of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement have pressured prize recipients to forego the Israel-based awards, but no winners have done so as of 2011.

Laureates

Year	Theme	Laureate
2002	Past - History	Warburg Library
	Present - Technology, information and society	Daniel Hillis
	Future - Life sciences	Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, Robert Waterston
2003	Past - Paleoanthropology	Michel Brunet
	Present - Print & electronic media	James Nachtwey, Frederick Wiseman
	Future - cosmology & astronomy	John Bahcall
2004	Past - Cities: Historical legacy	Rome, Istanbul, Jerusalem
	Present - Leadership: Changing our World	Klaus Schwab
	Future - Brain sciences	Robert Wurtz, Amiram Grinvald, William Newsome
2005	Past- Archaeology	Graeme Barker, Israel Finkelstein
	Present - The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music	Peter Brook
	Future - Materials science	Robert Langer, George Whitesides, C.N.R. Rao
2006	Past - Music	Yo-Yo Ma
	Present - Journalism	Magdi Allam, Monica Gonzalez, Adam Michnik, Goenawan Mohamad
	Future - Treatment of cancer	John Mendelsohn, Joseph Schlessinger
2007	Past - Historians	Jacques Le Goff
	Present - Contemporary Music	Pascal Dusapin, Zubin Mehta
	Future - Quest for Energy	James E. Hansen, Jerry Olson, Sarah Kurtz
2008	Past - Creative Rendering of the Past	Amos Oz, Tom Stoppard, Atom Egoyan
	Present - Social Responsibility	Al Gore[3]
	Future - Geosciences	Ellen Mosley-Thompson & Lonnie Thompson, Geoffrey Eglinton
2009	Past - Astrophysics - History of the Universe	Paolo de Bernardis, Andrew E. Lange, Paul Richards[4]
	Present - Leadership	Tony Blair[4]
	Future - Global Public Health	Robert Gallo[4]
2010	Past - March Towards Democracy	Giorgio Napolitano
	Present - Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century	Margaret Atwood, Amitav Ghosh
	Future - Computers and Telecommunications	Leonard Kleinrock, Gordon E. Moore, Michael O. Rabin
2011	Past - Evolution	Marcus Feldman
	Present - Cinema and Society	Coen Brothers[5]
	Future - Ageing -Facing the Challenge	Cynthia Kenyon, Gary Ruvkun

References

1. ^ http://www.dandavidprize.org The Dan David Prize
2. ^ "The true worth of Dan David - Haaretz - Israel News". Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/923356.html. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
3. ^ Al Gore - Present 2008 Laureate - Dan David Prize, TAU^{[dead link]}
4. ^ ^{a b c} "Laureates 2009". Dan David Prize. http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/laureates/laureates-2009.html. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
5. ^ "Coen brothers win $1m Dan David Prize". BBC News. 16 May 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13408854. Retrieved 17 May 2011. "The pair were given the Dan David Prize - awarded to people who have made 'an outstanding contribution to humanity' - at Tel Aviv University in Israel." 

External links

http://www.dandavidprize.org - Official Dan David Prize website, including complete list of all laureates by year.