2012 Dan David Prizes Awarded; Three $1 Million Awards Presented

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2012 Dan David Prizes Awarded; Three $1

Million Awards Presented

PR Newswire

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 12, 2012

TEL AVIV, Israel

,

June 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

The

Dan David Prize award ceremony

took place yesterday at Tel Aviv

University, in the presence of Prof. Joseph Klafter, President of Tel Aviv

University and Chairman of the Dan David Prize Board, Prof. Ruth Arnon,

President of the Israel Academy of Sciences, members of the David family,

the 2012 Dan David Prize laureates, foreign ambassadors, and prominent

academic and business figures from

Israel

and abroad.

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Awards were presented in the fields of:

History/Biography

to

Dr. Robert Conquest

(

USA

) for exposing the realities of Stalinist rule in the

1930s.

Sir Martin Gilbert

(

United Kingdom

) for his remarkable, multi-volume

biography of Sir Winston Churchill.

Plastic Arts

to

Mr. William Kentridge

(

South Africa

) for his renowned, socially conscious,

and extremely diversified works of art.

Genome Research

to

Prof. David Botstein

(Princeton University,

USA

) for his pioneering research

in modern human genetics.

Prof. Eric Lander

(Broad Institute Harvard and MIT,

USA

) for his seminal work

in the genetic mapping of humans and animals.

Dr. J. Craig Venter (

J. Craig Venter Institute,

USA

) for his contributions to

metagenomics and for creating a functional bacterial genome from synthetic

building blocks.

The Dan David Prize has been awarded since the year 2002 to individuals or

institutions with proven, exceptional excellence in the sciences, arts, and

humanities within each of the three time dimensions: past, present, and future.

(

$1Million

is awarded in each time dimension).

The ceremony included artistic performances by the Harel Kay Ka-Ya Group,

the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Percussion Ensemble, Tel Aviv University;

and flutist Margarita Timoshin.

The laureates donate 10% of their prize money towards 20 scholarships for

outstanding doctoral and

post- doctoral students from all over the world.

The Dan David Prize seeks to impact on the next generation of leaders and

involves high school students through the "Name Your Hero" Essay

Competition.

Various attendant events are taking place this week at Tel Aviv University within

the framework of the Dan David Prize:

Scholarship/Name Your Hero Essay Competition Award Ceremony

'A Personal Account'

A Meeting with the Historian

Dr. Robert Conquest

'A Natural History of the Studio'

A Meeting with the Artist

William Kentridge

'The Human Genome and Future Biomedical Research'

A symposium with

Prof. David Botstein, Prof. Eric Lander, and Dr. J.

Craig Venter

View live at:

http://video.tau.ac.il/DanDavid-Prize-12

Ms. Orly Fromer

Media Director

Cell: [phone]

[e-mail]

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