Dan David Prize

Three prizes of US$ 1 million each are annually awarded for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world. Each year fields are chosen within the three Time Dimensions - Past, Present and Future.
 

2012 Laureates Announced

2012 Past - History/Biography

Robert Conquest

Dr. Robert Conquest, British historian and...Read more...

Martin Gilbert

The Rt. Hon. Sir Martin Gilbert, a leading...Read more...

2012 Present - Plastic Arts

William Kentridge

  William Kentridge is an internationally...Read more...

2012 Future - Genome Research

David Botstein

Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics; Director,...Read more...

Eric Lander

Founding Director, Broad Institute Harvard and...Read more...

J. Craig Venter

Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig...Read more...

Dan David Prize Laureates

  • Jacques Le Goff
    2007 Past - Historians - Authors of Major Works of History
    JacquesLeGoffJacques Le Goff has been recognized as one of the leading historians of the European Middle Ages ov...
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  • Michel Brunet
    2003 Past - Paleoanthropology
    brunet_sDirecteur UMR CNRS 6046
    Laboratoire de Geobiologie, Biochronologie et Paleontologie Humaine Faculte des...
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  • Michael O. Rabin
    2010 Future - Computers and Telecommunications
    michael.rabin. photoProf. Michael O. Rabin, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Boston, ...
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  • David Botstein
    2012 Future - Genome Research
    David BotsteinAnthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics; Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics; Dire...
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  • Paul Richards
    2009 Past Astrophysics-History of the Universe

    richards_-_smallPaul Richards is Professor of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley...
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  • Cynthia Kenyon
    2011 Future - Ageing-Facing the Challenge
    c_kenyon_photo_2010_smallProfessor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Califor...
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  • James Hansen
    2007 Future - Quest for Energy
    jhansenDr. Hansen, affiliated with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of the small handf...
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  • Robert C. Gallo
    2009 Future Global Public Health
    gallo_smallRobert C. Gallo, MD, is the Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Med...
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  • Zubin Mehta
    2007 Present - Contemporary Music
    mehtaZubin Mehta, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday, is one of the world`s leading conductors. He is a vivid sym...
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  • Peter Brook
    2005 Present - The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music
    PeterBrookPeter Brook, born in London, on March 21, 1925 , is currently the Director of the International Center ...
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  • Yo-Yo Ma
    2006 Past - Preserving Cultural Heritage
    Yo-YoMa Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned cellist whose inspirations go well beyond the concert hall.

    In 1998,...
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  • George Whitesides
    2005 Future - Materials Science
    whitesidesGeorge Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...
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  • Robert H. Waterston
    2002 Future - Life Sciences
    waterston1Prof. Robert H. Waterston (born 1943 in Michigan, USA) obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from P...
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  • Atom Egoyan
    2008 Past - Creative Rendering of the Past: Literature, Theater, Film
    AtomEgoyanAtom Egoyan, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is a critically acclaimed and prize winning Canadian-Arme...
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  • Rome
    2004 Past - Cities: Historical Legacy
    romeRome has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for its jurisprudence, its language and the importa...
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  • John Mendelsohn
    2006 Future - Cancer Therapy
    mendelsohnJohn Mendelsohn, MD, combines experience in clinical and laboratory research with administrative ...
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  • Frederick Wiseman
    2003 Present - Print & Electronic Media
    wisemanFrederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for documentary filmma...
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  • John Bahcall
    2003 Future - Cosmology & Astronomy
    bahcall_sProf. John Bahcall has made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of different are...
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  • James Nachtwey
    2003 Present - Print & Electronic Media
    jnachtJames Nachtwey is no ordinary photojournalist. He has dedicated his life to documenting the apocalyptic events of...
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  • Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson
    2008 Future - Geosciences
    ThompsonsEllen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, Professors at the Ohio State University, USA, are a scientific t...
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