The Sackler Prize can indicate any of the following three awards established by

Raymond Sackler Raymond Sackler (February 16, 1920 – July 17, 2017) was an American physician and businessman. He acquired Purdue Pharma together with his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Mortimer Sackler. Purdue Pharma is the developer of OxyContin, the dr ...

and his wife

Beverly Sackler The Sackler family is an American family who founded and owned the pharmaceutical companies Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma. Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical ...

currently bestowed by the Tel Aviv University.

Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences

The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences is a $40,000 prize in the disciplines of either physics or

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

awarded by Tel Aviv University each year for young scientists who have made outstanding and fundamental contributions in their fields. There is an age limit for all nominees. Nominations for the Sackler Prize can be made by individuals in any of the following categories: 1) Faculty of Physics, Astronomy or Chemistry departments in institutions of higher learning worldwide. 2) Presidents, Rectors, vice-presidents, Provosts and Deans, of institutions of higher learning worldwide. 3) Directors of laboratories worldwide. 4) Sackler Prize laureates. For 2008, the age limit has been raised to 45 and the prize money to $50,000.

Winners

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Tel Aviv University
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Tel Aviv University
*2000 prize for Physics (Theoretical High Energy Physics):

Michael R. Douglas Michael R. Douglas (born November 19, 1961) is an American theoretical physicist, best known for his work in string theory and mathematical physics. Biography Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a ...

( Rutgers University) and Juan Martin Maldacena ( Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), for work "beyond the 1975 synthesis known as the 'Standard Model' and within the framework of (supersymmetrical)

String String or strings may refer to: *String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted together, which is used to tie, bind, or hang other objects Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Strings'' (1991 film), a Canadian anim ...

or M-theory." *2001 prize for Chemistry (Physical Chemistry of Advanced Materials): Moungi B. Bawendi ( MIT) and

James R. Heath James R. Heath (born 1962) is an American chemist and the president and professor of Institute of Systems Biology. Previous to this, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, after having move ...

( UCLA) "for their seminal contributions to the discovery, development and fundamental and applied studies of nanoscale materials." *2002 prize for Physics (Physics of Engineered Materials): Leo P. Kouwenhoven ( Delft University of Technology) for the "understanding of electronic states and charge transport in sub-micron systems" and

Ullrich Steiner Ullrich (), is a German surname of Germanic origin. Other variants include Ulrich, Ulrych/Ullrych, Ulryk/Ullryk, and many more. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Ulrich (born 1971), German politician *Anton Ullrich (1826–1895 ...

( Cambridge University) "for innovative discoveries in the analysis and control of the structure." *2003 prize for Chemistry (Advanced Nanostructed Materials): Chad A. Mirkin ( Northwestern University) and Xiaoliang Sunney Xie ( Harvard University) "for their seminal contributions to the discovery, design, fabrication and characterization of nano-structure materials, including complex macromolecules and single molecules with biological significance." *2004 prize for Physics (Observational or Theoretical Astronomy and Astrophysics):

Andrea M. Ghez Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her ...

( UCLA) "for her pioneering high-resolution infrared observations that provide evidence for, and establish the mass of, the supermassive blackhole in the center of the galaxy" and

Adam G. Riess Adam Guy Riess (born December 16, 1969) is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological ...

( Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland) "for his contributions to the observational study of distant Type Ia supernovae that reveal the accelerating expansion of the universe and the possible existence of dark energy." *2005 prize for Chemistry (Theoretical Chemistry):

Christoph Dellago Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhofe ...

( University of Vienna),

Christopher Jarzynski Christopher Jarzynski is an American physicist and Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Physics, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and fellow of the ...

( Los Alamos National Laboratory) and

David Reichman David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

( Columbia University), "for their ground-breaking developments in statistical mechanics and seminal contributions to the dynamics of disordered condensed matter." *2006 prize in Physics:

Yuri Kovchegov Yuri Kovchegov (born 1973) is an American physicist. Biography Kovchegov obtained his bachelor's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993 and two years later got his master's from Columbia University following by Ph.D. in ...

( Ohio State University) for 'his work in

quantum chromodynamics In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type ...

at very high energies and

gluon A gluon ( ) is an elementary particle that acts as the exchange particle (or gauge boson) for the strong force between quarks. It is analogous to the exchange of photons in the electromagnetic force between two charged particles. Gluons bind q ...

densities' and Thomas Glasmacher (

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

) for 'developing new sensitive methods of studying nuclear structure, utilizing

Coulomb excitation Coulomb excitation is a technique in experimental nuclear physics to probe the electromagnetic aspect of nuclear structure. In coulomb excitation, a nucleus is excited by an inelastic collision with another nucleus through the electromagnetic intera ...

with fast beams of rare isotopes'. *2007 for Chemistry (for Metals in Synthesis):

Christopher C. Cummins Christopher "Kit" Colin Cummins (born February 28, 1966) is an American chemist, currently the Henry Dreyfus Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has made contributions to the coordination chemistry of transition metal n ...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and

John F. Hartwig John F. Hartwig is an American organometallic chemist who holds the position of Henry Rapoport Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His laboratory traditionally focuses on developing transition metal-catalyzed reacti ...

(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) *2008 prize for Physics (Physics Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era):

Nima Arkani-Hamed Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian

(Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) for 'his novel, deep and highly influential contributions to new paradigms for physics beyond the Standard Model at the TeV energy scale, especially the ideas of large extra dimensions and of the large hierarchy of strengths of fundamental forces in Nature, including gravity; supersymmetry model-building; theories of flavor and of neutrino masses; and models of the cosmological constant' *2009 prize for Chemistry (Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products):

Phil S. Baran Phil S. Baran (born August 10, 1977) is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute and Member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

(Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemistry, La Jolla) for 'his seminal contribution through a series of groundbreaking syntheses that demonstrated the advantages of the novel oxidative CC bond formation in terms of efficiency, practicality, stereocontrol and "redox-economy"' ; Matthew D. Shair (Harvard University} for 'his seminal contribution to the syntheses of complex natural products by using new cascade reactions to rapidly achieve molecular complexity' and Brian M. Stoltz (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena) for 'his seminal contribution through the development of enatioselective methods for oxidation and catalytic bond construction'. *2010 prize for Physics (Nano-Photonics and Nano-Plasmonics): Mark L. Brongersma (Geballe Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Stanford University) for 'outstanding experimental and theoretical research in nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics; in particular on the emission of light from nano-structures that support propagating surface plasmons' and

Stefan A. Maier Stefan may refer to: * Stefan (given name) * Stefan (surname) * Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname * Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname * Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...

(Imperial College, London)for 'outstanding theoretical and experimental research in nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics; in particular on the propagation of surface plasmons-polaritons along a chain of metallic nano-particles' *2011 prize for Chemistry (Molecular Dynamics of Chemical Reactions):

Gregory D. Scholes Gregory D. Scholes One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: is William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Career and research Scholes research interests are in photosyn ...

(University of Toronto) for 'his seminal contribution to the field of ultrafast spectroscopy' and Martin T. Zanni (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for 'his seminal contribution to the field of ultrafast spectroscopy'. *2012 prize for Physics (Study of Extra-solar Planets): David Charbonneau (Harvard University} for 'his breakthrough discoveries, including the first detections of transiting extra-solar planets and spectroscopic observations of their atmosphere' and

Sara Seager Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the auth ...

(MIT) for 'her brilliant theoretical studies, including analysis of the atmospheres and internal compositions of extra-solar planets'. *2013 prize for Chemistry (Functionalization of Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds in Organic Synthesis):

Melanie S. Sanford Melanie Sarah Sanford (born June 16, 1975) is an American chemist, currently the Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow for the Ame ...

(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Jin-Quan Yu (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla) for 'their seminal contributions to the catalytic functionalization of carbon – hydrogen bonds' *2014 prize for Physics (Topological Phases in Condensed Matter):

B. Andrei Bernevig Bogdan Andrei Bernevig (born 1978 in Bucharest) is a Romanian Quantum Condensed Matter Professor of Physics at Princeton University and the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. Biography Andrei Bernevig took part in the Phy ...

(Princeton University) for 'his theoretical contribution towards a first realization of a two dimensional topological insulator' ; Liang Fu (MIT) for 'his contribution to generalization of the concept of topological insulators from two to three dimensions' and Xiao-Liang Qi (Stanford University) for 'his contribution to the prediction of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators' *2016 prize for Chemistry (Magnetic Resonance): John Morton ( London Centre for Nanotechnology) for 'his outstanding and imaginative applications of magnetic resonance to quantum information storage and processing'; Guido Pintacuda (Institute of Analytical Sciences (High-Field NMR Centre)) for 'his elegant methodological advances in solid state NMR spectroscopy' and

Charalampos Babis Kalodimos Saint Charalampos ( grc, Ἅγιος Χαράλαμπος) (also variously Charalampas, Charalampus, Charalambos, Haralampus, Haralampos, Haralabos or Haralambos) was an early Christian priest in Magnesia on the Maeander, a city in Asia Minor, i ...

(University of Minnesota) for 'detailed characterizations of structure, function and dynamics in a number of challenging and important biological systems through solution NMR spectroscopy'. *2017 prize for Biophysics (Mesoscopic physics of cellular phenomena):

Tuomas Knowles Tuomas Knowles is a British scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Dis ...

(University of Cambridge) for 'elucidating physical principles of amyloid fibril formation with important applications in biology and medicine'. *2018 price for Physics (Quantum Field Theory):

Zohar Komargodski Zohar Komargodski (born 10 March 1983) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory, including conformal field theories, gauge theories and supersymmetry. Komargodski received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 2 ...

(Weizmann Institute, Israel) and

Pedro Vieira Pedro Gil Vieira is a Portuguese theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory and quantum gravity. One of his most important contributions is the exact solution for the spectrum of a four-dimensional q ...

(Perimeter Institute, Canada) for 'their outstanding work probing QFT in non-perturbative regimes'. *2019 prize for Chemistry:

Christopher Chang Christopher J. Chang is a professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Class of 1942 Chair. Chang is also a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, a Howard Hugh ...

(University of California, Berkeley), (University of Cambridge) and Matthew Disney (Scripps Research in Florida).

Sackler Prize in Biophysics

Th
Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics
is intended to encourage dedication to science, originality and excellence by rewarding outstanding scientists. The prizes are awarded by Tel Aviv University. Recipients have been: (Source
Tel Aviv University
) *2006:

Harvey T. McMahon Harvey, Harveys or Harvey's may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Harvey'' (play), a 1944 play by Mary Chase about a man befriended by an invisible anthropomorphic rabbit * Harvey Awards ("Harveys"), one of the most important awards ...

( MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) and Paul R. Selvin (University of Illinois) *2007: Clare M. Waterman-Storer (Scripps Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology, La Jolla, California) and Frank Jülicher (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany). *2008: David Baker (University of Washington) ;

Martin Gruebele Martin Gruebele (born January 10, 1964 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German-born American physical chemist and biophysicist who is currently James R. Eiszner Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, Professor of Biophysics and Computational Biol ...

(University of Illinois) and Jonathan S. Weissman (University of California, San Francisco) *2010:

Gerhard Hummer Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–1 ...

(National Institutes of Health, Bethesda) and

Yigong Shi Shi Yigong (; born May 1967) is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsing ...

(School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing) *2011:

Stephen R. Quake Stephen Ronald Quake (born 1969) is an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He earned his B.S. in physics and M.S. in mathematics from Stanford in 1991 and his D.Phil. in physics from Oxford University in 1994 as a Marshall Scholar. Hi ...

(Stanford University) and

Xiaowei Zhuang Xiaowei Zhuang (; born January 1972) is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the H ...

(Harvard University)

Sackler Prize in Music Composition

There is also a Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Music Composition, the purpose of which is to provide financial support for the creation of new musical works, and which is administered by the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut. Established in 2000, the international award offers a substantial recognition including public performances, recordings, and a prize of $25,000 (USD). * 2002:

Gabriella Lena Frank Gabriella may refer to: * Gabriella (given name), a feminine given name * ''Gabriella di Vergy'', an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti (1826, revised 1838), and an opera by Mercadante (1828), based on the tragedy ''Gabrielle de Vergy'' by Dormont De ...

* 2003: Karim Al-Zand * 2006:

Rufus Reid Rufus Reid (born February 10, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. Biography Reid was raised in Sacramento, California, where he played the trumpet through junior high and high school. Upon graduation ...

* 2007:

Sheila Silver Sheila Jane Silver (born October 3, 1946) is an American composer. Early life and studies Sheila Silver was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946, the youngest daughter of Robert and Fannie Silver. She started piano studies at the age of five. Af ...

* 2008:

Nathan Currier Nathan Currier (born 1960, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer. Biography Coming from a musical family, Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier (1931) and brother of composer Sebastian Currier (1959). His principal teachers wer ...

* 2009: J. Mark Scearce * 2012: Kevin Walcyzk * 2013:

Steven Sametz Steven Sametz (born 1954, Westport, Connecticut) is active as both conductor and composer. He has been hailed as "one of the most respected choral composers in America." Since 1979, he has been on the faculty of Lehigh University in Bethlehem ...

* 2015: David Dzubay

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