Michael Bruno Memorial Award
The Michael Bruno Memorial Awards are awarded each year to Israeli scholars and scientists of truly exceptional promise, whose achievements to date suggest future breakthroughs in their respective fields. Candidates must not yet have passed the age of fifty.
Prof. Michael Bruno served as Governor of the Bank of Israel between 1986 and 1991, as well as Chair of the Board of the Rothschild Prizes Organisation. After his untimely death in 1996, it was decided to dedicate the awards to his memory. The first awards were made in 1999.
The award totals $165,000 for each recipient, divided into two components: a personal grant of $45,000, for use by the winner with no strings attached; and a research grant of $120,000. The research grant is awarded to the recipient’s university with the funds to be used solely as directed by the recipient with the approval of the Selection and Steering Committee.
Nominations for Michael Bruno Memorial Awards may be submitted only by persons invited to do so by the Steering and Selection Committee. The recipients are selected in a confidential process based, in part, on evaluations provided by leading scientists in their fields.
2011 Recipients
- Hagit Attiya Computer Sciences
- Danny Fox Linguistics
- Re’em Sari Astrophysics
- Adiel Schremer Jewish History
