>>8935950 "Who" was the billionaire who started award with 50million$
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Silverman_(philanthropist)
>"The Albany Medical Center Prize serves to encourage and recognize extraordinary and sustained contributions to improving health care and promoting innovative biomedical research.
>Awarded annually, the $500,000 prize is the largest prize in medicine in the United States and is bestowed to any physician or scientist, or group, whose work has led to significant advances in the fields of health care and scientific research with demonstrated translational benefits applied to improved patient care.
>The prize is a legacy to its founder - the late Morris "Marty" Silverman. At the inaugural awards ceremony in Albany, NY in March 2001, Albany Medical Center Prize founder Marty Silverman started a tradition that will be carried on for the duration of the Prize - 100 years. Marty's promise was to light one candle each year to honor that year's recipient."
Paid notices of his and his wifes death and their love of jewish interests
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/classified/paid-notice-deaths-silverman-morris.html
http://www.rencorp.org/martySilverman.html
>The most noteworthy program of his philanthropy is the $50 million Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research which is presented as an award of $500,000 annually. This prize, consistent with Marty's vision in making Albany an "International Center for Health and Education" is widely recognized throughout the scientific and biomedical community research community as "America's Nobel." The prize was first awarded in 2001.
Silverman and Bill Gates mentioned in same paragraph:
>Like the Nobels, some of the new prizes are carefully thought out to reward research in specific disciplines. Last year, Morris Silverman, a New York City businessman who made a fortune in mini-storage, financed the $1 million Albany Medical Center prize to spur medical research. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's annual million-dollar prize honors work on global health. The Crown Prince of Dubai endowed the $1 million Zayed Environmental Prize. Then there's the $250,000 William E. Simon Awards for philanthropy, and the $150,000 Peter Gruber Awards for cosmology, genetics and justice.
http://archive.is/JUlsn#selection-575.0-575.596