Dan David (businessman)
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Dan David (Hebrew: דן דוד; 23 May 1929 – 6 September 2011) was a Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist.
Biography
Dan David was born to a
He left Romania for Paris in August 1960, later settling in Israel. The following year, he traveled to Europe.
David died in London on 6 September 2011.[2]
Business career
With a $200,000 loan from a cousin, he won the franchise for
Dan David Prize
In 2000, David founded the Dan David Foundation with a $100 million endowment. The Foundation awards the Dan David Prize (first awarded in 2002), which is headquartered at Tel Aviv University. For its first 20 years, the prize consisted of three 1$ million awards granted in rotating fields of the sciences and the humanities. [6] In 2021, the Foundation announced[7] it was redesigning the prize to focus on history and other disciplines that study the past, granting up to nine awards of $300,000 to early- and mid-career researchers in those fields.[8]
Commemoration
The Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research was inaugurated on 25 November 2018, in Dan David's memory.
References
- ^ "Businessman-philanthropist Dan David dies in London". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ^ Businessman-philanthropist Dan David dies in London
- ^ "The true worth of Dan David". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
- ^ Cope, Nigel (5 August 2000). "Institutions demand a boardroom clear-out at Photo-Me". The Independent. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
Dan David, the 71-year-old chairman... Serge Crasnianski, the chief executive
- ^ "Business: The Economy UK Net millionaires boom". BBC News. 3 October 1999. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ^ "The Prize 2001 - 2021". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ "Dan David Prize relaunches, now the world's largest history award". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ "The Prize". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
- ^ "Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory". Tel Aviv University News and Events. Tel Aviv University. 2 December 2018. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "About the Dan David Center". Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Facilities". Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Collection". Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019.
- ^ "What makes us Human?". Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 28 May 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2020.