Harvey Prize
The Harvey Prize (Harvey Prize) is an annual prize awarded by the Technion in Haifa in various disciplines that alternate in a cycle of five years, with two prizes being awarded each year:
- First and Third Years: Two Awards in Science and Technology
- Second and Fourth Years: One Prize in Science and Technology and one in Medicine and Health (Human Health)
- Fifth year: an award in science and technology, an award for outstanding contributions to peace in the Middle East, or for outstanding contributions to the economy or society.
Each award is endowed with $ 75,000. It has been awarded since 1972. It is named after the industrialist (Harvey Machine Company in Los Angeles, Harvey Aluminum Company) and inventor Leo M. Harvey (1887–1973).
Award winners
- 1972 - Willem Kolff - Claude Elwood Shannon
- 1974 - Alan Cottrell - Gershom Scholem
- 1975 - Georg Klein - Edward Teller
- 1976 - Saul Lieberman - Hermann F. Mark
- 1977 - Seymour Benzer - Freeman Dyson
- 1978 - Bernard Lewis - Isaac Wahl
- 1979 - Efraim Racker
- 1980 - Shlomo Dov Goitein - Michael O. Rabin
- 1981 - Hans Walter Kosterlitz - Michael James Lighthill
- 1982 - Hans Jacob Polotsky - Alvin M. Weinberg
- 1983 - Robert Aumann - Philip Leder
- 1984 - Franz Rosenthal - Peter Sorokin
- 1985 - George Dantzig - Barnett Rosenberg
- 1986 - Paul Christian Lauterbur - Benjamin Mazar
- 1987 - Pierre Chambon - Sydney Brenner
- 1988 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1989 - Benoît Mandelbrot
- 1990 - Robert H. Dennard
- 1991 - Jacques-Louis Lions - Bert Sakmann
- 1992 - Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev - Amnon Yariv
- 1993 - Hillel Fürstenberg - Eric Kandel - Richard N. Zare
- 1994 - Wladimir Arnold - Robert Allan Weinberg
- 1995 - John W. Cahn - Donald E. Knuth
- 1996 - C. Walton Lillehei - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- 1997 - Roger D. Kornberg
- 1998 - Richard M. Karp - Barry Sharpless
- 1999 - Elizabeth Blackburn - Robert Gray Gallager
- 2000 - David Gross - Harry B. Gray
- 2001 - Bert Vogelstein - James Peebles
- 2002 - Ada Yonath - Peter Dervan
- 2003 - Robert Langer
- 2004 - Arthur Ashkin - Wayne Hendrickson
- 2005 - Edward Witten - Wolfgang Baumeister
- 2006 - Charles L. Bennett - Ronald M. Evans
- 2007 - Michael Graetzel - Stephen E. Harris
- 2008 - Charles H. Bennett - David Eisenberg
- 2009 - David Baulcombe - Shuji Nakamura
- 2010 - Michael Karin - Alexander Markowitsch Polyakow
- 2011 - Richard H. Friend - Judea Pearl
- 2012 - Eric Lander - Eli Yablonovitch
- 2013 - Jon M. Kleinberg - Paul B. Corkum
- 2014 - James P. Allison - Reinhard Genzel
- 2015 - Marc Kirschner - Immanuel Bloch
- 2016 - Karl Deisseroth - Peter Hegemann - Ronald Drever - Kip S. Thorne - Rainer Weiss
- 2017 - Tobin Marks - Carla Shatz
- 2018 - Emmanuelle Charpentier - Jennifer Doudna - Feng Zhang - Christos H. Papadimitriou