THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

The Prize Committee for Chemistry has unanimously decided that the 2008 Wolf Prize be jointly awarded to

William E. Moerner
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

Allen J. Bard
University of Texas
Austin, Texas, USA

for the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.

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THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

The Prize Committee for Chemistry has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Prize be jointly awarded to

Ada Yonath
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

and
George Feher
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, USA

for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.

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THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Richard N. Zare
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for his ingenious applications of laser techniques, for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules, and their use in analytical chemistry.

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THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Harry B. Gray
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for pioneering work in bio-inorganic chemistry, unravelling novel principles of structure and long-range electron transfer in proteins.

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THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Henri B. Kagan
University Paris-South
Paris, France

Ryoji Noyori
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan

K. Barry Sharpless
The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California, USA

for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankindīs ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.

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THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

F. Albert Cotton
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA

for opening up an entirely new phase of transition metal chemistry based on pairs and clusters of metal atoms directly linked by single or multiple bonds.

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THE 1999 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Raymond U. Lemieux
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

for his fundamental and seminal contributions to the study and synthesis of oligosaccharides and to the elucidation of their role in molecular recognition in biological systems.

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THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Gerhard Ertl
Fritz Haber Institute, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Berlin, Germany

Gabor A. Somorjai
University of California,
and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Berkeley, California, USA

for their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surface in particular.

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THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Gilbert Stork
Columbia University
New York, N.Y., USA

Samuel J. Danishefsky
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
and Columbia University,
New York, N.Y., USA

for designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.

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THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Richard A. Lerner
Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, California, USA

Peter G. Schultz
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for converting antibodies into enzymes, thus permitting the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible to achieve by classical chemical procedures.

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THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Ahmed H. Zewail
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for pioneering the development of laser femtochemistry. Using lasers and molecular beams, femtochemistry has made it now possible to probe the evolution of chemical reactions as they actually happen in real time.

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THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

John A. Pople
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

for his outstanding contributions to theoretical chemistry, particularly in developing effective and widely used modern quantum-chemical methods.

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THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Richard R. Ernst
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

for his revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially Fourier-transform and two-dimensional NMR.

Alexander Pines
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for his revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially multiple-quantum and high-spin NMR.

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THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Duilio Arigoni
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

Alan R. Battersby
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.

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THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Joshua Jortner
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Raphael D. Levine
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

for their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity.

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THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Sir David C. Phillips
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

David M. Blow
Imperial College of Science and Technology
London, United Kingdom

for their contributions to protein X-ray crystallography and to the elucidation of structures of enzymes and their mechanisms of action.

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THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Elias J. Corey
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for outstanding research on the synthesis of many highly complex natural products and the demonstration of novel ways of thinking about such syntheses.

Albert Eschenmoser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

for outstanding research on the synthesis, stereochemistry and reaction mechanisms for formation of natural products, specially Vitamin-B12.

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THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Rudolph A. Marcus
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for his contributions to chemical kinetics, specially the theories of unimolecular reactions and electron transfer reactions.

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THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Herbert S. Gutowsky
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois, USA

for his pioneering work in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.

Harden M. McConnell
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for his studies of the electronic structure of molecules through paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and for the introduction and biological applications of spin label techniques.

John S. Waugh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for his fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solids.

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THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

John C. Polanyi
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

for his studies of chemical reactions in unprecedented detail by developing the infrared chemiluminiscence technique, and for envisaging the chemical laser.

George C. Pimentel
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers.

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THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Joseph Chatt
University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom

for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.

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THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Henry Eyring
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes.

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THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Herman F. Mark
Polytechnic Institute of New York
New York, N.Y., USA

for his contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of natural and synthetic polymers.

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THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Carl Djerassi
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for his work in bioorganic chemistry, application of new spectroscopic techniques, and his support of international cooperation.

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