Landau Prize awarded to TAU Professors Einav & Amossy

The Landau Prize in Arts and Sciences for 2012 has been awarded to Professor Shmuel Einav and Professor Ruth Amossy.

From the arguments of the judges

Professor Einav is a world authority in biomedical engineering in general and of the heart and the cardiovascular system in particular, and one of the world leading researchers of blood circulation. Prof. Einav is credited with breakthroughs on blood flow and cardiac activity, computational approaches to assess the severity of the disease and the efficacy of treatment, and the development of medical devices and implantable systems for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease and blood vessels. Among these, to mention a few, are heart valves, ventricular assist devices, total artificial heart, opening blocked arteries, diagnosing vulnerable plaques, and the use of nano - technologies for recovery and regeneration of blood vessels.

For his innovative achievements and groundbreaking medical research, initiating and constructing the field of Biomedical Engineering in Israel and world-wide, for his contributions to the advancement of research in Cardiovascular Medicine for the benefit of mankind, the development of instructional programs in Biomedical Engineering in Israel and world-wide, teaching and instructing many generations of engineers, scientists and physicians, extensive public activity, more than 120 articles and hundreds of scientific conferences - all of these make Prof. Einav worthy of being awarded the Landau Prize in Arts and Sciences in the fields of Medical and Biomedical Engineering.

Professor Ruth Amossy is multidisciplinary, world-renowned researcher from the Department of French Language and Literature at Tel Aviv University. Her books on literature and culture have becomes staples of the field. She began her career by writing about the works of author Julien Gracq and soon added her own insights to the existing body of scholarship. Her first book "Accepted Ideas (Conventions): The Semiology of the Stereotype" (1991) is today known to anyone interested in literary realism and the use of stereotypes and cliches in literature, politics and law.

Professor Amossy's interest in rhetorics is at the heart of her important book "Argumentation in Discourse" was originally published in 2000 and has since been re-published twice, in 2006 and 2010. Professor Amossy has not rested on her laurels and her latest book, published in 2010, deals with issues of identity and literary expression.  One must not forget the dozens of articles she's published and her acitivities in international associations. She is also the editor of an international journal of rhetoric and argumentation.