The Dan David Prize grants three prizes of US$ 1 million for outstanding achievement each year. Fields are chosen for Past, Present and Future.
The Dan David Prize is awarded for innovative and interdisciplinary research. Prize laureates donate 10 percent of their prize money to doctoral scholarships for outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholarships for outstanding researchers in their own field from around the world.
The 2013 Selected Fields: Past Time Dimension: Classics, The Modern Legacy of the Ancient World; Present Time Dimension: Ideas, Public Intellectuals and Contemporary Philosophers; Future Time Dimension: Preventive Medicine
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