he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) In 1985, he was awarded the Japan Prize. In 2000, the Rashi Foundation established the Katzir Scholarship Program in honor of Katzir, one of the first members of its board of directors. He is also a recipient of the Tchernichovsky Prize for exemplary translation. See also List of Israel Prize recipients References External links My Contributions to Science and Society, Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir Ephraim Katzir Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs PM Netanyahu eulogizes former President Ephraim Katzir Ephraim Katzir (Katchelsky) (1916–2009) Ehud Gazit, A vision of a scientific superpower, Ha'aretz, 8 June 2009 1916 births 2009 deaths Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Columbia University alumni Members of the French Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Harvard University alumni Israel Prize in life sciences recipients who were biophysicists Israel Prize in life sciences recipients Israeli biologists Israeli biophysicists Israeli Labor Party politicians Jewish scientists Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities People from Kiev Governorate Jews from the Russian Empire People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism Presidents of Israel Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Ukrainian Jews Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni 20th-century biologists Members of the American Philosophical Society