is an international prize which annually awards three prizes of US$ 1 million each 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. Read More about the prize
For facilitating the study of western civilization and its convergence with the ancient and... Read more »
Directeur UMR CNRS 6046 Laboratoire de Geobiologie, Biochronologie et Paleontologie Humaine... Read more »
Jerusalem has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for being the holy place... Read more »
Istanbul has made one of the most important contributions to humanity, for it embodies the... Read more »
Rome has made one of the most important contributions to humanity for its jurisprudence, its... Read more »
Prof. Israel Finkelstein holds the Jacob M. Alkow Chair in the Archaeology of Israel in the... Read more »
Professor of Archaeology and Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research University... Read more »
Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned cellist whose inspirations go well beyond the concert hall. In... Read more »
Jacques Le Goff has been recognized as one of the leading historians of the European Middle Ages... Read more »
Tom Stoppard established himself as one of the few undisputed masters of the modern stage in... Read more »
Atom Egoyan, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is a critically acclaimed and prize winning... Read more »
Amos Oz, one of the most widely read Israeli writers in the world, has published numerous... Read more »
Paolo de Bernardis is Professor of Physics at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Italy. His... Read more »
Andrew E. Lange, Goldberger Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology,... Read more »
Paul Richards is Professor of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley. Prof.... Read more »
Giorgio Napolitano is the President of the Republic of Italy and is known for his dedication to... Read more »
Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Prof. Feldman has... Read more »
Dr. Robert Conquest, British historian and renowned writer and researcher on the Soviet Union;... Read more »
The Rt. Hon. Sir Martin Gilbert, a leading historian of the modern world and the official... Read more »
Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is currently Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, a... Read more »
Mr. Krysztof Czyzewski is a renowned Polish publisher, writer and theater director, public... Read more »
Mr. Pierre Nora is public intellectual and publisher who helped establish the new... Read more »
Prof. Saul Friedlander holds UCLA's 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies. He is considered one... Read more »
Prof. Peter R. Brown is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Professor Emeritus,... Read more »
Prof. Alessandro Portelli is Professor Emeritus, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Prof.... Read more »
Prof. Inga Clendinnen was an outstanding historian who focused on social history and the history... Read more »
Prof. Arlette Farge is a Professor at the Center for historical research, Paris. She has... Read more »
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyGERMANY Prof. Svante Pääbo is the Director of... Read more »
Harvard Medical SchoolUSA Prof. David Reich, from the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical... Read more »
Max Planck Institute for the History of ScienceBerlin, Germany Prof. Lorraine Daston is an... Read more »
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA, USA Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor Emerita... Read more »
University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom Simon J. Schaffer is a Professor of the History... Read more »
Dr. W. Daniel Hillis has been selected for the first Dan David Prize in the category of 'The... Read more »
Frederick Wiseman is widely acclaimed as the most important person ever to lift a camera for... Read more »
James Nachtwey is no ordinary photojournalist. He has dedicated his life to documenting the... Read more »
The 2004 Dan David Prize for the Present Time Dimension in the field of Leadership: Changing Our... Read more »
Peter Brook, born in London, on March 21, 1925, is currently the Director of the International... Read more »
Goenawan Mohamad is one of the world's leading voices of moderate Islam. He has written... Read more »
Adam Michnik, a Polish journalist and activist, has made enormous contributions to freedom of... Read more »
Monica Gonzalez, a Chilean journalist and author, has established a reputation as Chile's... Read more »
Magdi Allam, born in Egypt and raised in Italy, is one of the leading journalists in Italy... Read more »
Zubin Mehta, is one of the world`s leading conductors. He is a vivid symbol of today`s... Read more »
Pascal Dusapin (born in 1955) is an outstanding figure within the world of contemporary music,... Read more »
Al Gore is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide... Read more »
Anthony Charles Lynton (Tony) Blair, former British Prime Minister, is one of the most... Read more »
One of Canada's most renowned writers, Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer who has produced... Read more »
Amitav Ghosh is an lndian-Bengali novelist whose work offers a panoramic treatment of... Read more »
Minnesota born in the 1950's, Joel and Ethan Coen have worked closely as a creative pair who... Read more »
William Kentridge is an internationally renowned artist whose work deals with poignant political... Read more »
Prof. Michel Serres has been professor of philosophy at Clermont-Ferrand, Vincennes, Paris since... Read more »
Noted American intellectual and philosopher and Literary Editor of The New Republic, a foremost... Read more »
Prof. John A. Hardy is the Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Chair of... Read more »
Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop is the Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Department... Read more »
Brenda Milner is the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and a... Read more »
Mr. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and member of the Board of Trustees, Wikimedia... Read more »
Prof. Sir Anthony B. Atkinson Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Honorary... Read more »
Prof. François Bourguignon, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics. He is one of the... Read more »
Prof. James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the... Read more »
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA, USA Read more »
King's College LondonLondon, United Kingdom Read more »
Prof. Robert H. Waterston (born 1943 in Michigan, USA) obtained a bachelor's degree in... Read more »
Prof. Sydney Brenner's sustained contributions during the course of a scientific career spanning... Read more »
Prof. John Bahcall made fundamental and lasting contributions to an astonishing number of... Read more »
Dr. William T. Newsome bridges the fields of neurophysiology and perceptual psychology. Through... Read more »
Dr. Amiram Grinvald of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department is considered the world... Read more »
Dr. Robert Wurtz Dr. Robert H. Wurtz has made one of the most salient discoveries in cognitive... Read more »
C.N.R. Rao is the Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced... Read more »
George Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at the Department of Chemistry and... Read more »
Robert Langer is the Kenneth L. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at... Read more »
John Mendelsohn, MD, combines experience in clinical and laboratory research with administrative... Read more »
Joseph Schlessinger, PhD, has been the William H. Prusoff Professor and Chairman of the... Read more »
Dr. Hansen, affiliated with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, is one of... Read more »
Over the past two decades Sarah R. Kurtz and Jerry M. Olson have made exceptional and profound... Read more »
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, Professors at the Ohio State University, USA, are a... Read more »
Geoffrey Eglinton was Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at the... Read more »
Robert C. Gallo, MD, is the Director, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School... Read more »
Prof. Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of... Read more »
Dr. Gordon E. Moore is a visionary. His prediction in 1965, widely known as "Moore's Law",... Read more »
Prof. Michael O. Rabin, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, Boston, and at the... Read more »
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco... Read more »
Professor of Genetics, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard... Read more »
Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics; Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative... Read more »
Founding Director, Broad Institute Harvard and MIT and director of its Genome Biology Program,... Read more »
Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD and La Jolla,... Read more »
Renowned French economist, Esther Duflo, is Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development... Read more »
Alfred Sommer, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg... Read more »
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science... Read more »
Prof. Michael S. Waterman is Professor of Biological Sciences, of Mathematics, of Computer... Read more »
Prof. David Haussler is a Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University... Read more »
Dr. Cyrus Chothia is Emeritus group leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural... Read more »
Prof. Paul Alivisatos is the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished... Read more »
Prof. Chad A. Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Chemical and... Read more »
Prof. Sir John Pendry FRS, the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, is a condensed... Read more »
NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterUSA Read more »
Astronomical Observatory Warsaw UniversityPOLAND Read more »
Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH, USA Read more »
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA, USA Read more »
Johns Hopkins School of MedicineBaltimore, MD, USA Read more »
2016 Dan David Prize
