{"id":84350,"date":"2018-06-11T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/harvey-prize-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T07:31:42","slug":"harvey-prize-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/harvey-prize-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Prize Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Prof. Carla J. Shatz and Prof. Tobin J. Marks received the 2017 Harvey Prize at a festive ceremony at Technion honoring the two outstanding scientists<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>The prestigious Harvey Prize was conferred upon two highly distinguished scientists, Prof. Carla J. Shatz and Prof. Tobin J. Marks, at a ceremony at Technion on Sunday, June 10<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/2018\/06\/harvey-prize-awards\/h3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29216\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29216 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/h3-300x248.jpeg\" alt=\"Harvey Prize Ceremony\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Professor Wayne D. Kaplan Technion Executive Vice President for Research, Professor Hagit Attiya Technion Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Technion President Prof. Peretz ,Prof. Shatz and Prof. Marks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Harvey Prize has been awarded by Technion each year since 1971 to outstanding individuals in the fields of science and technology. The prize, which was established by the late Leo M. Harvey of Los Angeles, is awarded to trailblazing scholars and scientists from around the world irrespective of nationality, race, religion or gender.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s ceremony, which took place during Technion\u2019s annual Board of Governors meeting, Profs. Shatz and Marks received the prize from Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie. \u00a0Prof. Lavie described the two laureates as \u201cbeing blessed with creativity\u201d and told the audience that this year\u2019s winners conformed to the high standards set by previous Harvey Prize recipients in that they \u201chave made breakthroughs in science and technology that truly contribute to the progress of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Tobin Marks is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Physics, Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. He received the Harvey Prize \u201cin recognition of his groundbreaking research in the areas of catalysis, organo-f-element chemistry, electronic and photonic materials, and coordination chemistry, which have strongly impacted contemporary science.\u201d Prof. Marks has published 1,260 peer-reviewed articles and holds 265 U.S. patents.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Marks professed to being deeply honored by the Harvey Prize, especially given the fact that former winners were so illustrious. In fact, several of them later received a Nobel Prize. Addressing the audience, Prof. Marks said that he was especially thrilled to accept the Harvey Prize given the close connection between Israel and the world of Chemistry. He cited both Fritz Haber, the Nobel Prize winning chemist who died on his way to Mandatory Palestine in 1934, and Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist leader who was also a world-renowned chemist, and asserted that, \u201cthe success of this nation has close connections to Chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29214\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/2018\/06\/harvey-prize-awards\/h1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29214\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29214 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/h1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Prof. Marks received the prize from Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Marks received the prize from Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marks also reminisced about his first trip to Israel in 1986, when he spent a month as a young lecturer at Technion. \u201cThat visit was transformative. It\u2019s amazing how the country has changed. At the time, the \u2018Start-Up Nation\u2019 mainly referred to trying to start up all the old cars people had. Since then, I have felt a strong bond between myself and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second honoree, Prof. Carla J. Shatz, is a professor of Biology and Neurobiology at Stanford University, California, USA. She has devoted her extensive research career to understanding the interplay between genes and environment that shapes brain circuits. Among other achievements, her studies of the visual system have influenced neuroscience research and human health. She was awarded the Harvey Prize \u201cin recognition of her discoveries concerning the emergence and function of brain circuits for vision,\u201d and the therapeutic implications of her findings on the treatment of memory loss.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29215\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/2018\/06\/harvey-prize-awards\/h2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29215\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29215 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/h2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Prof. Shatz received the prize from Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Shatz received the prize from Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Upon receiving the prize, Prof. Shatz stressed that she \u201cwouldn\u2019t be here today if it weren\u2019t for the support of so many people.\u201d In particular, she thanked her parents, who taught her \u201cto think independently,\u201d and her \u2018scientific parents,\u2019 the Nobel Prize laureates at Harvard who invited her to join their lab at a time when there were few women in the field. \u201cThanks to them, I learned the joy, excitement and fun of Science,\u201d she insisted. Prof. Shatz also reminisced about her late grandmother, who experienced a stroke 50 years ago and who is largely responsible for her interest in neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were many amazing developments in the last century,\u201d Prof. Shatz concluded, \u201cand now we are facing the ultimate challenge \u2013 how do we synthesize everything we have deconstructed? New synergies must be created by all disciplines. There\u2019s still so much to discover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Carla J. Shatz and Prof. Tobin J. Marks received the 2017 Harvey Prize at a festive ceremony at Technion honoring the two outstanding scientists The prestigious Harvey Prize was conferred upon two highly distinguished scientists, Prof. Carla J. Shatz and Prof. Tobin J. Marks, at a ceremony at Technion on Sunday, June 10th. 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