Bergmann Memorial Awards

 

 

1977

 

 

Dr. A. M. Lampert

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

 

On:  Regulation of Differentiation in Neuronal Cell Lines

 

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Dr. Z. Grossman

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Application of Nonlinear Equations with Time Delays to Biomedical Systems

 

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1978

 

 

Dr. R. Swenumson

University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

 

On:  Properties of Lonic, Covalent, and Van Der Waals Bonded Thin Film Mixtures

 

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1979

 

 

Dr. P. Frank

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Mechanistic Studies on HG (II) Substituted Laccase

 

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1980

 

 

Dr. A. Lubotzky

Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

 

On:  Representation Theory of Discrete Groups

 

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Dr. E. Pollak

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Classical Mechanics of Reactive Scattering

 

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Dr. D. Fekete

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

 

On:  Fabrication of Integrated Optical Circuits by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor

 

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Dr. V. Shoshan

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

 

On:  The Mechanism of Ca2+ Release from Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

 

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1981

 

 

Prof. Ilana Gozes

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide: From Gene to Peptide

 

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Dr. R. Pelcovits

Brown University, Providence RI, USA

 

On:  Theoretical Studies of Multicritical Phenomena

 

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1982

 

 

Dr. Ben-Zion Shilo

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Cellular Oncogene Homologs in Yeast

 

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Dr. Aviv Amirav

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Controlled Molecular Fragmentation from Supersonic Molecular Beams

 

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Dr. David V. Budescu

University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

                       

On:  Non-Numerical Judgments of Subjective Probabilities

 

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Dr. Shmuel Fishman

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

                       

On: Chaos, Quantum Dynamics, Localization, Incommensurabilityand Quenched

        Randomness”

 

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Dr. Stephen S. Vogt

University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

 

On:  High Speed Observations of Be Stars Associated with X-Ray Sources

 

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1984

 

 

Dr. Yehudit Bergman

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Expression of Recombinant V [Mouse] -C [Human] Monoclonal Antibodies in

        Lymphocytes”

 

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Prof. Haim I. Sompolinsky

Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Dr. Daniel S. Fisher

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

 

On:  Static and Dynamic Properties of Random Magnets

 

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Prof. Marianne Wiser

Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA

 

On:  The Development of the Concepts of Heat and Temperature

 

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1985

 

 

Dr. Chaim Kahana

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

                       

On:  Molecular Genetics of Mammalian Ornithine Decarboxylase

 

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Dr. Nathan Seiberg

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

                       

 On:  Superstrings

 

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Dr. Noam Gavriely

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

                       

On:  Role of Airway Flow-Limitation in Generation of Respiratory Wheezes

 

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Prof. K. Birgitta Whaley

University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

 

On:  Theoretical Studies of Surface Diffusion

 

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1986

 

 

Dr. Stephen Ellner

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

 

On:  Optimal Dispersal in a Desert Widow Spider

 

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Prof. Noga Alon

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

                       

 On:  Effective Combinatorial Results with Algorithmic Applications

 

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Prof. Yuval Gefen

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

                       

On:  Quantum Tunneling and Interference Effects in Submicron Systems

 

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Prof. Assaf Sukenik

Israel Oceanographic & Limnol Res Lab, Haifa, Israel

                       

 On:  Regulation of Lipid Production in Marine Unicellular Algae

 

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1987

 

 

Dr. Yacov Kantor

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Prof. Mehran Kardar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

 

On:  Statistical Mechanics of Tethered and Related Surfaces”

 

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Dr. Rachel Nechustai

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Biogenesis Assembly and Structure of Photosystem I

 

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Dr. Avi Wigderson

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Inherent Complexity of Computational Problems

 

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Dr. Rachman Chaim

Technion,  Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

 

On:  Interface Characterization and Stability in Silicon Carbide/Glass Ceramic System

 

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Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Anisotropy, Valence and Pressure Effects on High Tc Super-conducting Oxides

 

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1988

 

 

Prof. Michael S. Bradley

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

 

On:  Studies of Interfacial Metal Liquid-like Films

 

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Prof. Jacob Cohen

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Prof. Bruce J. Bayley

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

 

On:  A Theoretical and Experimental Program on Transition toTurbulent Wall-Jet

        Flow

 

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Prof. Sanford Ruhman

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Femtosecond Time Resolved Excimer Formation in the Liquid Phase

 

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Prof. Yoram Moses

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Prof. Yoav Shoham

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Knowledge Representation for Intelligent Agents

 

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Dr. Craig Montell

John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

On:  Analysis of Inositol Lipid Signalling in Drosophila Mutants

 

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1989

 

 

Dr. Edmund Bertschinger

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

 

On:  Large Scale Motions and Dark Matter in the Universe

 

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Prof. Michal Linial

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Structural and Functional Analysis of Major Synaptic Vesicle Protein from

        Torpedo”

 

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Prof. Eli Tziperman

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  A North Atlantic Inverse Model, Using a Numerical General Circulation Model

 

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1990

 

 

Prof. Shoshana Ravid

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Control Mechanism of Chemotaxis and Development in Dichyostelium

 

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Prof. Uri Sivan

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

 

On:  Transport Properties of Coulomb Coupled, Spatially Separated Electron and

         Hole G Gases”

 

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Prof. Ofer Zeitouni

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Prof. Amir Dembo

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Refinements and Applications of Large Deviations Techniques

 

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1991

 

 

Prof. Michael J. Blake

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

 

On: Analysis of The Response to Heat Stress in Senescence

 

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Prof. Pierre A. Goloubinoff

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Structure-Function Analysis of the Chaperonin Molecule:

        A Mutagenesis Approach

 

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Prof. Amnon Horovitz

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Interaction of Peptide Antigen from Human Immunodeficiency Virus with

        Antibody

 

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1992

 

 

Prof. Noam Nisan

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Russell Impagliazzo

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

 

On:  Communication Complexity and Circuit Lower Bounds

 

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Prof. Joseph Naor

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Prof. Rajeev Motwani

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Approximation Algorithms and their Complexity

 

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Prof. Allan Rubin

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

 

On:  Stress Field During Rifting and Diking: Theory & Yizre'el Graben

 

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1993

 

 

Prof. Israel Nelken

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Spatial Sensitivity of Auditory Field AES Neurons

 

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Prof. Ilan Tsarfati

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Met and HGF/SF in Mammary Development and Carcinogenesis

 

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Prof. David L. Clark

Alma College, Alma, MI, USA

 

On:  The Evolution of Sexual Dimorphism in Plexippus Paykulli

 

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Dr. George Georgiou

University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

 

On:  Biotechnological Applications of Genetically Engineered Bacterial Cell Surface

         Proteins”

 

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1994

 

 

Prof. Nurit Yirmiya

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  A Longitudinal Study of Siblings of Children with Autism

 

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Prof. Ronen Basri

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Prof. David W. Jacobs

NEC Research Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA

 

On:  Object Recognition, Pose Estimation and Indexing Using Region Correspondence

 

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Dr. Jim Dai

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

On:  Object Recognition, Pose Estimation and Indexing Using Region Correspondence

 

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1995

 

 

Dr. Daniel Neuhauser

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Israel

 

On:  Study of Electromagnetic Wave-Dynamics in Optical-Devices for the Application of

         Laser-Technology

 

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Prof. Ran Raz

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Dr. Toniann Pitassi

University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, USA

 

On:  Circuit Complexity and Proof Theory

 

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Prof. Ady Stern

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

                       

On:  Interaction and Disorder in the Quantum Hall Effect and Quantum Dynamics of

        Josephson Junction Arrays

 

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1996

 

 

Dr. Yael Karshon

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Susan Tolman

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

 

On:  Group Actions on Symplectic Manifolds

 

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Dr. Shivaji L. Sondhi

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

 

On:  Duality, Nonlinear Dissipation and Novel Insulators in the Quantum Hall Regime

 

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Prof. Uri Banin

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

                       

On:  Collective Effects in III-V Semiconductor Nanocrystal Arrays

 

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Dr. Michael M. Haley

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

 

On:  Strained-ring Annelated Cyclophanes: Precursors to Novel Stair-Step Polymers

 

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1997

 

 

Prof. Anne McCoy

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

 

On:  Electronic Effects in Reactions of van der Waals Molecules

 

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Prof. Rann Smorodinsky

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Dr. Alvaro Sandroni

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL , USA

 

On:  Rational and Semi-Rational Learning - Theory and Applications

 

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Dr. Gadi Fibich

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Perturbed and Weak Solutions of the Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation

 

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Prof. Tova Milo

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Schema Specification and Query Evaluation in Loosely Structured Data

 

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1998

 

 

Prof. Oded Agam

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Igor Aleiner

State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

 

On:  Interaction Effects in Chaotic Systems

 

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Prof. Eli Waxman 

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Interaction of Gamma-Ray Bursts with their Surrounding Medium

 

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Dr. Sima Lev 

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  The Role of the Human Homologoues of rdgB in Retinal Degeneration

 

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1999

 

 

Dr. Eran Rabani

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Self Assembly of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

 

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Dr. Michael Krivelevich

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

 

On:  Problems in Random Graphs and their Algorithmic Aspects

 

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Dr. Ofer Aharony

Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel

Prof. Eva Silverstein

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Prof. Shamit Kachru

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

 

On:  Relations Between Quantum Field Theories and String Theories

 

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2000

 

 

Dr. Yifat Prut

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Firing Properties and Functional Interactions of Primate Spinal Interneurons

 

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Dr. Ernesto Joselevich

Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Stereochemistry of Carbon Nanotubes: Microscopic and Spectroscopic Studies

 

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Dr. Barak Weiss

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Prof. Dmitry Kleinbock

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

 

On:  Dynamics of Parameter Spaces

 

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2001

 

 

Dr. Deborah Fass

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

On:  Structures and Mechanisms of Enzymes that Generate Disulfide Bonds

 

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Dr. Yaffa Yeshurun   

University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel


On:  The Adaptability of Attentional Mechanisms

 

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2002

 

 

Dr. Barak Kol

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

 

On:  Quantum Field Theory, Exactly Conformal Deformations and Quiver Field

         Theories”

 

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Dr. Alexander Groisman

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

 

On:  Turbulent Mixing and Enhancement of Efficiency of Chemical Reactions

 

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Prof. Ganapathiraman Ramanath

Renselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

 

On:  Self-Assembled Diffusion and Adhesion Enhancers for Cu Metallization in

        Microelectronics Devices

 

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2003

 

 

Dr. Melissa J. Ferguson

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

 

On:  Ideological and Automatic:  Studies on the Cognitive Mechanics of Ideologies

 

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Dr. Michal Hershfinkel

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

 

On:  Physiological Role of the Zinc Sensing Receptor in the Brain

 

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2004

 

 

Dr. Irit Dinur

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Dr. Oded Regev

Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Dr. Elchanan Mossel

University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

 

On:  Inapproximability, Unique Games, and Analysis of Boolean Functions

 

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2005

 

 

Dr. Aharon Blank

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

 

On:  Biophysical and Medical Applications of ESR Microscopy

 

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Dr. Christopher C. Henrich

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

On:  Development Under Duress: A Transactional-Ecological Model of Adolescent Risk and Resilience

 

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2006

 

 

Dr. Hossam Haick

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

 

On:  Electron Transport Through Conductor/Molecular Film/Semiconductor Systems

 

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Dr. Assaf Naor

New York University, New York, NY, USA

 

On:  Geometric techniques for the analysis and design of algorithms on metric data

 

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