Weizmann Women in Science Award
The Weizmann Women in Science Award has been awarded every two years since 1994 for internationally renowned female scientists who have achieved significant achievements in their field of research as well as for the scientific community in general. It is awarded by the Weizmann Institute (originally by its American committee) and is endowed with $ 25,000 in research funding. The winner will be invited to the Weizmann Institute for the award ceremony and a lecture.
The award aims to promote women in science and promote role models that will inspire the next generation of women in science.
Award winners
- 1994 Joan Argetsinger Steitz , professor of biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University
- 1996 Vera Rubin , astronomy, discoverer of dark matter
- 1998 Jacqueline K. Barton , chemistry, professor at Caltech
- 2000 Carla J. Shatz , neurobiologist, Harvard Medical School, Mildred Dresselhaus , physicist, MIT, the latter received the Millennial Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2002 Susan Solomon , Meteorology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- 2004 May Berenbaum , Entomologist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2006 Mary-Claire King , Cancer Researcher, University of Washington
- 2008 Elizabeth Blackburn , molecular biologist, University of California, San Francisco, Nobel Prize winner.
- 2011 Catherine Bréchignac , physicist, former President of the CNRS
- 2013 Susan M. Gasser , molecular biologist, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
- 2015 Barbara Liskov , computer scientist, MIT, Turing Prize winner
- 2017 Ursula Keller , physicist, ETH Zurich, Naomi Halas , Rice University (plasmonics)
- 2019 Mina Bissell , Cancer Researcher ( Tumor Microenvironment ), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Nieng Yan , Molecular Biologist, Princeton University