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Recipients 2007

Future Time Dimension - Quest for Energy

Amunts Alexey Michael

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Biochemistry Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Title of Research:
"The Crystal Structure of Plant Photosystem I Complex: Towards Atomic Resolution"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Arenson Mordechai

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Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Title of Research:
"Solar Collectors with Circular Geometry"
Summary of Research, December 2007

 

Carmeli Itai

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Chemistry Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Title of Research:
"Fabrication and Function of Hybrid Photosystem I Protein - Solid StatePhotoelectronic Devices"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Mittelman Gur Shlomo

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Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA
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Title of Research:
"Integral Collector Storage (ICS) Solar Water Heating Systems Advanced Energy Efficient Residential Roof System Intergrating Photovoltaic Panels"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

RINGSMUTH Andrew Karl

Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia
"Structural Biology of Solar Energy Capture: Towards High Efficiency Bio-fuel Production"

TRAVITSKY Nina

Chemistry Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Platinum and Platinum Alloy Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cells"

 

Wissner-Gross Alexander David

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Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA
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Title of Research:
"Solar Thermal Energy Buffering Using Nanostructured Diamond for Heat Exchange"
Summary of Research, September 2007

   

Present Time Dimension - Contemporary Music

Abramov-van Rijk Elena

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Musicology Department, Tel Aviv University
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Title of Research:
"The Functioning and Formation of the Written Musical Repertoire in Fourteenth Century Italy"
Summary of Research, December 2007

 

KATZ Alexandra

Musicology Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Metaphor as Representation of Musical Thought: Interactions between Categories of Images and Music Parameters"

 

Kohn (Cohen) Dafna

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Musicology Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Title of Research:
"Music and Movement: The Relationship between Musical Parameters, Bodily Movement Responses, and Listeners' Images of Motion"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Papalexandri-Alexandri Marianthi

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Department of Music - Composition, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
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Title of Research:
Ph.D in Composition
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

RINGEL Itamar A.

Strings Department, New England Conservatory of Music, USA
"Folk Music References in György Ligeti's Sonata for Viola Solo"

 

Seter Ronit

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Musicology Department
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Title of Research:
"Nationalism, Orientalism, and Folklorism in Jewish-Israeli Art Music, 1940-2000"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

SOKER Tal

Musicology Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel
"Contextualizing Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Solo Concerti - A Study of His Works according to 18th Century German Music Theory and Aesthetics"

 

   

Past Time Dimension - Historians: Authors of Major Works of History

Abt Oded

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Graduate School of Historical Studies - TAU Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Title of Research:
"Muslims' Descendants in Southeast China and Taiwan - Assimilation and Dissimilation"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Elyada Aya

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School of History, Tel Aviv University Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Title of Research:
"Early Modern Christian Literature on Yiddish in the German-Speaking World" *
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Eyal Hillel

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History Department, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
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Title of Research:
"Colonizing the Colonizer: Spanish Immigrants and Creoles in Late Colonial Mexico City"

Hillel Eyal is a Dan David Fellow at Tel Aviv University working in the field of Latin American history. His research examines the social history of Spanish immigration in colonial Mexico, focusing on the growing conflict between European Spaniards and Mexican-born Creoles towards the end of the colonial period (1750s-1810s). Among his broader historical interests are Atlantic history and comparative colonialism in the early modern world. His thematic interests include social and economic history, historical demography and quantitative methods. As a Research Fellow, he is pursuing a comparative project on transatlantic immigration and Spanish identity throughout colonial Spanish America.

 

Forand Bruno Joseph

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Centre Roland Mousnier (CRM-CNRS) IRCOM
Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, France
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Title of Research:
"The Figure of the Ideal Historian in the Sixteenth Century:
The Construction of an Ideality in Renaissance's Historiography"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

Keren Ella (Emanuella)

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School of History, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Title of Research:
"The Making of Ghanaian Historiography"
Summary of Research, September 2007

 

STERNHELL Yael A.

Department of History, Princeton University, USA
"Revolution in Motion: Human Mobility and the Transformation of the South, 1861-1865"

 

Yuval Amnon

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Histoire et Civilisation
Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, France
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Title of Research:
"The Politics of Emotions:
Henry Redhead Yorke, Helen Maria William and the Disenchantment of the French Revolution"
Summary of Research, September 2007