The Hebrew University in Jerusalem has announced the establishment of the Morris J. Kaplun International Prize to be awarded annually in the fields of the humanities, natural sciences, technology, social studies and Jewish studies. The $5,000 award was announced in a joint statement issued by Nathaniel Goldstein, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and Avraham Harman, university president. The prize will be administered by the Morris J. Kaplun Foundation, according to Moshe Sheinbaum, a trustee. The first awards will be conferred during a special convocation in Jerusalem in July. Mr. Kaplun is an American philanthropist who has endowed several educational projects in America and Israel in memory of his son, the late Dr. Saul Kaplun. They include an Applied Mathematics Library at the California Institute of Technology, the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Space Physics at Tel Aviv University and the Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University.
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