Rothschild Prizes 2020
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Rothschild Prizes 2020
22 March 2020 JERUSALEM
About the Rothschild Prizes
In 1959 Yad Hanadiv established the Rothschild Prizes Organization to support, encourage and advance the Sciences and Humanities in Israel. Prizes are awarded in recognition of original and outstanding published work in the following disciplines: Mathematics/Computer Sciences and Engineering; Life Sciences; and Chemical and Physical Sciences (every two years); and Social Sciences; Jewish Studies; and Humanities (every four years). Nominations for Prizes may be submitted by Presidents, Rectors and Deans of Faculties of Israeli universities, Chairs of relevant university departments, members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and previous recipients of a Rothschild Prize in the academic discipline in which they received the Prize. The winners are selected by a Board of Advisers, whose members are appointed for four-year terms. The Chair, currently Professor Shafi Goldwasser of the Weizmann Institute of Science and University of California, Berkeley, is appointed by Yad Hanadiv. Other members of the Board are: Professor Menahem Yaari
appointed by Lord Rothschild
Dr Lea Nass
appointed by the Prime Minister of Israel
Professor Haim Taitelbaum
appointed by the Minister of Education
Professor Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir
appointed by the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Simon Brandon
appointed by the Board of Governors of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Professor Eli Zeldov
appointed by the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Professor Margalit Finkelberg
appointed by the President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Professor Noga Alon
appointed by the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University
In addition, Professors Yaakov Kaduri (James Kugel) and Eli Keshet were invited to participate in the selection process on an ad hoc basis. The Rothschild Prize ceremony is traditionally held in the Knesset in the presence of a representative of the Knesset and a representative of the Rothschild family.
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THE ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Professor Jacob Klein Professor, Department of Materials and Interfaces Weizmann Institute of Science
For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of soft and liquid matter, including the dynamics of entangled polymers; the steric stabilization of colloids; and the molecular origins of biological lubrication
Professor Jacob Klein is an internationally renowned physicist and physical chemist of soft condensed matter, polymers and surface forces. He is considered a world leader in experimental polymer physics, where he was the first to demonstrate reptation in entangled polymer chains and the first to measure molecular attraction and repulsion mediated by polymers at surfaces. His research has largely focused on phenomena related to lubrication, wetting, surface interactions of molecules and various aspects of Nanotribology – the study of friction, wear, adhesion and lubrication phenomena at the nanoscale level. These include simple liquids, surfactants and lipids, polymers and bio-macromolecules at surfaces, interfaces and in confined geometries. Professor Klein has also designed innovative surface forces balance technologies to examine the microscopic origins of friction and lubrication of biological systems. He was the first to describe the role of hydration layers in modulating frictional forces between sliding surfaces or molecular layers in aqueous media. His discovery of this ‘hydration lubrication effect’ led to a paradigm shift in the understanding of friction and lubrication in aqueous and biological systems at the molecular level. In his recent work on lubrication Professor Klein demonstrated that lipids and liposomes at surfaces exhibit remarkable lubrication phenomena. By using lipids with hydrated head-groups that can slide one on top of the other with minimal friction, he creatively extended this concept to biological systems. This has ground-breaking applications to problems such as
knee cartilage replacement and osteoarthritis, and to friction-associated diseases in eyes. Professor Klein has transformed our understanding of soft matter and interfaces with his numerous discoveries and powerful new experimental approaches. He has contributed in many other areas of materials chemistry relating to colloids, rheology, tissue engineering and even secondary oil recovery. His work has far-reaching implications for aspects of contemporary life. He is also widely known for his educational activities in Israel and in the UK. He has mentored more than 80 graduate students and postdocs and 29 of his students hold tenured faculty positions around the world. Jacob Klein is a Professor in the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is also Visiting Professor at Beihang University, Beijing since 2017. He was Dr Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at Oxford from 2000–2007 where he headed the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Department from 2000–2005. Professor Klein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics, UK. Among his many honours, in 2013 he was awarded the Tribology Gold Medal of the International Tribology Trust, the top award in the field, and in 2017 the triennial Liquid Matter Prize of the European Physical Society. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the Academia Europaea. Professor Klein holds BA, MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University.
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THE ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN HUMANITIES
Professor Guy G. Stroumsa Martin Buber Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Oxford
For his outstanding contribution to the study of early Christianity and of the cultural and religious transformations of Late Antiquity that led to the crystallization of the religious systems of Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Professor Stroumsa is one of the leading scholars in our generation of the religions of Late Antiquity, and a leading theoretician of the study of religion in the Western world. He has reshaped this entire field, just as he has reconceived and re-articulated the vast scholarly domain of Late Antiquity and revealed new dimensions of the rich and dynamic religious cultures of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Based on primary sources in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac (among other languages), his work is among the best of contemporary international scholarship on the Late Antique world and on the study of the Abrahamic religions. He has published 14 books, has edited or co-edited 21, and has written nearly 150 essays covering the panoramic field of religious thought and praxis in Late Antiquity. They include seminal essays on Manichaeism and Gnosticism, and comparative studies of dualist trends and of the Rabbinic and early Christian systems, as well as explorations of the modern history of Comparative Religion as a discipline. The themes Professor Stroumsa elucidates are of crucial importance to our societies. He uses his experience of our own times as a prism for the interpretation of ancient phenomena. He is widely regarded as excelling not only in breadth of learning and delicacy of observation, but in his ability to subsume the particular object of his research into a more compendious narrative, and to show that this is not merely a narrative about the past.
His originality lies also in his ability to provoke others to think. His contributions to the history of concepts find expression in his analysis of the components of the dialectic of philosophical or religious controversies, where he uses his unique ability to abolish frontiers between academic disciplines (history, philosophy, theology, literature), between traditional classifications (heresy, orthodoxy) and between religious domains and the methodology of research. The impact of his innovative models and metaphors is amplified by his skill as an academic teacher and mentor. Guy Stroumsa is the Martin Buber Professor Emeritus in Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University and Professor Emeritus of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, University of Oxford. At The Hebrew University he chaired the Department for Comparative Religion, headed the Amirim Programme for fostering excellence and was Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity. He was also Co-Director of Summer Schools of Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies from 2006–2009. At Oxford, he was in charge of the Humanitas Visiting Fellowship in Interfaith Studies from 2010–2013 and of exchange programmes with Princeton and The Hebrew University. He holds a PhD with distinction from Harvard University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich and is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award and of the Leopold Lucas Prize.
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THE ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN JEWISH STUDIES
Professor Moshe Rosman Professor Emeritus, Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University
For exploring the interaction between Jews and Poles; for clarifying the life of Israel Baal Shem Tov and early Hasidism; for integrating women’s experiences into Jewish historiography, and for his profound insights on the question, ‘How Jewish is Jewish History?’
Professor Moshe Rosman is recognized as a world authority on the Jews of Poland in the 16th-18th centuries. Yet his achievements extend well beyond this speciality and his publications have enriched the entire field of Jewish Studies. His first book, The Lords’ Jews, remains a classic for its analysis of the multi-faceted relationship between Polish aristocratic magnates and the Jews. The book broke new ground in its archive-based scrutiny, replacing stereotypes with nuanced descriptions and demonstrating how Polish archival and Jewish literary sources could complement each other. Professor Rosman’s framing of magnateJewish relations as a ‘marriage of convenience’ has had deep resonance in Jewish and Polish scholarship. Professor Rosman’s research revealed a wide gap between the views of later historians and the historical sources, forcing a new conceptualization of the history of the period as a whole. His work inspired others to emulate his methods and extend them to various aspects of Polish Jewish history. The book was also significant for his recognition of the role of Jewish women in the economy, and he has since taken up the rich theme of Jewish women’s cultural capital. Professor Rosman continued to mine the archives and produce paradigm-breaking scholarship. Heralded as changing the face of Judaism, Israel Baal Shem Tov’s historical image, as well as the origins of the Hasidic movement associated with him, were shrouded in obscurity. Professor Rosman cut through centuries of myth to reveal the economic and communal
context of this seminal eighteenth-century figure. After publishing his pathbreaking book, Founder of Hasidism, he co-authored Hasidism: A New History, a rewriting of the history of this central movement. Professor Rosman has been a major participant in the debate about the definition of ‘Jewish’ history and culture. His book, How Jewish is Jewish History?, articulated the postmodern critique of Jewish historiography and offered new approaches. It was an attempt to incorporate postmodern sensibilities into researching Jewish history while enhancing its fundamental coherence. Professor Rosman’s meticulous and original work has presented Jewish Studies to new populations, especially in Eastern Europe. He is known for his accessibility to students and is a greatly respected and beloved figure in the academic world and beyond. Moshe Rosman is Professor Emeritus, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University. He has held visiting positions at Yale, Brandeis, Leipzig and Vilnius universities, as well as the Universities of Texas, Pennsylvania and Michigan, among others. He has published prolifically and held numerous senior editorial positions. His many fellowships and awards include Doctor Honoris Causa, Wrocław University, 2016, and the National Jewish Book Award (History 1996; Collections 2009). Professor Rosman holds a PhD in Jewish History from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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THE ROTHSCHILD PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCES
Professor Hanah Margalit Professor of Computational Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
For her pioneering contributions in Computational Biology and in the implementation of Bioinformatics in the research community
Professor Hanah Margalit is a world leader in the interdisciplinary field of Computational Molecular Biology, which is central to modern research in the Life Sciences and Biomedical Sciences. She is exceptional in having bridged the gap between Computational Biology and experimental Molecular Biology, and in using the power of Bioinformatics to achieve numerous scientific breakthroughs. Professor Margalit’s primary research has been on the different levels of gene expression regulation and their integration in cellular networks. Her eminent work has led to many firsts in Bioinformatics, from the analysis of transcription regulation by transcription factors, to post-transcription regulation by small RNA molecules. Her research on transcription regulation includes the first structure-based prediction of transcription factor binding sites – predicting where these factors, which control the expression of genes, bind on the DNA. In other breakthroughs, Professor Margalit led the first genome-based computational identification of genes encoding small regulatory RNAs, which are now recognized as major players in gene expression regulation; she designed the first algorithm to detect multi-layer regulatory circuits in the cellular networks to understand how the different levels of gene expression regulation in a cell are integrated, and led the first computational discovery of a novel immune evasion mechanism mediated by viral RNAs.
Professor Margalit has consistently addressed important and timely biological questions of basic molecular mechanisms. Her research directions and computational approaches have been adopted by many research groups worldwide and have had significant impact on the international scientific community. An influential figure in establishing Israel’s impressive community of computational biologists, she has been an outstanding role model for young scientists, encouraging them to think creatively and find unconventional solutions. She has contributed greatly to the advancement of women in Science and five of her former female students lead their own research groups in Israeli universities. Hanah Margalit is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a Visiting Scientist at Stanford University, the NCI, NIH and Rockefeller University in the United States. In 2002–2004 she was the first President of the Israeli Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology, and she is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin. She holds a PhD in Computational Molecular Biology from The Hebrew University and in 2008 was awarded the Landau Prize in Systems Biology.
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T H E R O T H S C H I L D P R I Z E I N M AT H E M AT I C S / C O M P U T E R S C I E N C E A N D E N G I N E E R I N G
Professor Michal Irani Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science
For pioneering contributions in computer vision, including analysis of video and of visual information across space and time, and the development of methods to train deep neural networks on a single image by exploiting the internal recurrence of information in the image
Professor Michal Irani is regarded as one of the most creative and brilliant researchers in computer vision, multi-view imaging, motion estimation, enhancement and manipulation of visual data, and video information analysis. She is especially well known for her foundational work in super-resolution of visual data (in space and in time) and for influential pioneering of several key sub-areas of video analysis, including multi-frame optical flow estimation, panoramic representations of video sequences, multivideo alignment and action recognition. Professor Irani has developed a revolutionary integrated approach for space-time analysis of video data, where information is extracted simultaneously from an entire space-time visual volume. Previously, video data had been mostly treated as a sequence of discrete frames in time. This opened up the field of spatial and temporal super resolution from multiple images and gave rise to new and powerful ways of analyzing dynamic visual information. She was also the first to analyse and quantify the internal self-similarity of visual data. She showed that any image is composed of tiny ‘image atoms’, which tend to repeat many times inside the same image and demonstrated that this unique property could be leveraged to solve many fundamental problems in computer vision. In a series of ground-breaking publications, she applied self-similarity to a wide range of image and video-processing problems. Professor Irani is developing algorithms that will eventually enable
a computer to imitate the function of a human eye, thus increasing our understanding of the human brain. Her radical ‘Deep Internal Learning’ approach is the first to successfully train deep neural networks on as little as a single image. This is made possible by exploiting the internal recurrence (self-similarity) of tiny image patches inside the image. Professor Irani is a dynamic and engaging speaker who conveys her ideas with clarity and enthusiasm. Her talents as an educator are reflected in the generation of remarkable and committed scientists and computer engineers she has trained. Michal Irani is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, where she has chaired the Scientific Council, the Promotions and Appointments Committee and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, and in 2003 won the Levinson Prize in Mathematics. From 1993–1996 she was on the Technical Staff of Vision Technologies Lab, SRI David Sarnoff Research Centre, Princeton. Her multiple awards and honours include the Landau Prize for Arts and Sciences in 2019, the Helmholtz Test-of-Time Prize in 2017 and the Maria Petrou Prize in 2016. She has 20 approved patents registered in the US and has been Area Chair of numerous international conferences on Computer Vision. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Rothschild Prize Winners Since 1959
1959 Prof. Max Kurrein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Shmuel Agmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Don Patinkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
1964 Prof. David Ginsburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chemical Sciences Prof. Yitzhak Be’er. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jewish Studies Prof. Zeev Lev. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Physical Sciences
1960 Dr. Avraham Komarov . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Ephraim Katzir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences
1965 Prof. Abraham Kogan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Engineering Prof. Chaim Leib Pekeris . . . . . . . . . . . .Mathematics Prof. Gad Tedeschi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Social Sciences
1961 Prof. Ernst David Bergmann. . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Hans Jacob Polotsky . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Gershom Scholem . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Yoel Rokach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1966 Prof. Aharon Bondi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Agriculture Prof. Shmuel Sambursky. . . . . . . . . . . . .Humanities Prof. Yitzhak Bernblum. . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences
1962 Prof. Markus Reiner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Abraham Halevy Fraenkel . . . Mathematics Prof. Louis Eliyahu Guttman . . . . . . Social Sciences
1967 Prof. Michael Sela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chemical Sciences Prof. Ben-Zion Dinur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jewish Studies Prof. Yuval Ne’eman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Physical Sciences
1963 Prof. Yitzhak Wahl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Yigael Yadin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Georg Haas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences
1969 Prof. Shmuel Ruchman . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Engineering Prof. Zvi Herbert Riesel . . . . . . . . . . . . .Engineering Mr. Myron Melman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Engineering Prof. Aryeh Berger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Life Sciences Prof. Shimshon Abraham Amitsur . . . .Mathematics Prof. Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt . . . . . . .Social Sciences
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Rothschild Prize Winners Since 1959
1971 Prof. Yair Mundlak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Aharon Katchalsky-Katzir. . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Joshua Prawer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Zeev Ben-Hayyim. . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Yigal Talmi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1979 Prof. Izchak Steinberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Haim Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Harry J. (Zvi) Lipkin . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1973 Prof. Franz Ollendorff . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Michael Zohary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Michael Rabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Michael Bruno. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
1981 Prof. Gad Loebenstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Sol R. Bodner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Yeshayahu Tishbi . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Hans Lindner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Saharon Shelah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Joseph Ben-David. . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
1975 Prof. Joshua Jortner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. David Ayalon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Shlomo Pines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Haim Harari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1983 Prof. Meir Wilchek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Nachman Avigad. . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach. . . Jewish Studies Prof. Yakir Aharonov. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1977 Prof. Yehudith Birk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Leo Sachs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences
1985 Prof. Isaac Harpaz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Yitzhak Kidron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering
Prof. Hillel Furstenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Roberto Bachi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
Prof. Michael Feldman . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Israel Gochberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Yaacov Katz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
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Rothschild Prize Winners Since 1959
1988 Prof. Abraham Patchornik. . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Meir Kister. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Shraga Abramson. . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Jacob Bekenstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1996 Prof. Edward Kosower. . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Moshe Gil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Yoseph Imry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences 1998 Prof. Yona Chen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Yitzhak Hadar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Jacob Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Ruth Arnon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Ehud Hrushovski . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Sergiu Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
1990 Prof. Ilan Chet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Dan Shechtman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Alexander Levitzki. . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Achi Brandt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Nissan Liviatan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
2000 Prof. Zeev Luz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Hayim Tadmor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. David Flusser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Amnon Aharony. . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
1992 Prof. Raphael Levine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Yehoshua Blau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Ezra Fleisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Zeev Vager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
2002 Prof. Nachum Kedar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Jacob Ziv. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Zvi Selinger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Alexander Lubotzky. . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Elhanan Helpman. . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
1994 Prof. Jaacov Katan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Moshe Zakai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Shmuel Shaltiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Adi Shamir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Menahem Yaari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
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Rothschild Prize Winners Since 1959
2004 Prof. Joseph Klafter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. David Shulman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Haim Beinart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Asher Peres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Physical Sciences
2014 Prof. Shlomo Havlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences
Prof. Eli Keshet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Shlomo Shamai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics
2006 Prof. Gedeon Dagan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Ada Yonath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Benjamin Weiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Asher Koriat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
2016 Prof. Reshef Tenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences
and Physical Sciences
Prof. Yohanan Friedmann . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Ya’akov Kaduri (James Kugel) . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Hagai Bergman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Nathan (Nati) Linial . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics
and Engineering
2018 Prof. Yaron Silberberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences
2010 Prof. Shalom Applebaum . . . . . . . . . . Agriculture Prof. Abraham Lempel . . . . . . . . . . . . Engineering Prof. Yoram Groner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. David Kazhdan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics Prof. Ariel Rubinstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
and Physical Sciences
Prof. Naama Barkai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Noam Nisan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics
and Engineering
Prof. Maya Bar-Hillel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
2012 Prof. Raphael Mechoulam . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences
and Physical Sciences
Prof. Margalit Finkelberg. . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Moshe Idel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Chaim Cedar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Gil Kalai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics
and Engineering
Prof. Avner de Shalit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Social Sciences
2008 Prof. Itamar Willner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences Prof. Etan Kohlberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Moshe Bar-Asher . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Mordechai (Moty) Heiblum. . Physical Sciences
and Physical Sciences
2020 Prof. Jacob Klein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chemical Sciences
Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Humanities Prof. Moshe Rosman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jewish Studies Prof. Hanah Margalit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Life Sciences Prof. Michal Irani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mathematics
and Engineering
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