Former Vice President Al Gore, Playwright Tom = Stoppard and Filmmaker Atom Egoyan Among $1 Million Dan David Prize = Winners: Financial News

Former Vice President Al Gore, Playwright = Tom=20 Stoppard and Filmmaker Atom Egoyan Among $1 Million Dan = David Prize=20 Winners
Tuesday February 12, 6:35 = am=20 ET=20

Seven Winners=20 Honoured for Achievements Focusing on the Past, Present and=20 Future=20

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 12 /PRNewswire/ = -- The Dan=20 David Prize annually awards three prizes of US$1 million for = achievements with an outstanding scientific, technological, = cultural=20 or social impact on our world.

The 2008 winners are:

Past: Sharing the prize in the field of Creative = Rendering of the=20 Past - Literature, Theater, Film:

Author Amos Oz of Israel - Oz has written more than 25 = books,=20 which portray historical events, emphasizing the individual = and=20 exploring conflicts between nations.

Playwright Tom Stoppard of the United Kingdom - Stoppard = portrays=20 the search for meaning, while displaying dazzling = theatricality and=20 genius for laughter.

Filmmaker Atom Egoyan of Canada - Egoyan explores the = human=20 impact of historical events and the nature of truth and its=20 representation through art.

Present: In the field of Social Responsibility with = Particular=20 Emphasis on the Environment:

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore

Gore is working to enhance awareness of global warming = and=20 promote its remedies.

Future: Sharing the prize in the field of Geoscience:

Geoffrey Eglinton, Professor of Earth Sciences, = University of=20 Bristol, United Kingdom - Eglinton studies organic chemical = fossils=20 and the mechanisms by which their products yield essential = resources=20 for the future.

Ellen Moseley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson of Ohio = State=20 University in Columbus - As professors of geography and = geological=20 sciences, respectively, they study ice cores to further = understand=20 the complex interactions within the Earth's outer envelopes, = such as=20 glacier melting and the polar icecap retreat.

"The constellation of laureates is particularly = meaningful," said=20 Mr. Dan David, international businessman and philanthropist = who=20 founded the Prize. "On the one hand, great creators = depicting=20 historical events in literature, theater and film; on the = other,=20 eminent scientists whose research predicts environmental = disaster if=20 we do not act; and in between, a man promoting awareness of = this=20 prediction and its remedies so that human history will = continue to=20 be told for generations to come".

The awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 19, = 2008 at Tel=20 Aviv University, where the Prize was founded in 2001 and is=20 headquartered.

    Dan David Prize web site http://www.dandavidprize.org/

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