Professor Charles Hope, Director, Warburg Institute
Dr. W. Daniel Hillis was selected for the first Dan David Prize in the category of 'The Present: Technology, Information and Society" for his defining work in the area of parallel processing.
Prof. Robert H. Waterston obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from Princeton University in 1965 and received both a medical degree and a doctorate in pathology from the University of Chicago in 1972.
Sir John Sulston graduated from Cambridge University in 1963.
Prof. Sydney Brenner's sustained contributions during the course of a scientific career spanning 40 years are exceptional both in their novelty and in their impact on biology.