William E. Moerner

Allen J. Bard

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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John A. Pickett

James H. Tumlinson

W. Joe Lewis

THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

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

John A. Pickett
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

James H. Tumlinson
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

W. Joe Lewis
Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture
Tifton, Georgia, USA

for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. Their scientific contributions on chemical ecology have fostered the development of integrated pest management and significantly advanced agricultural sustainability.

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Pierre R. Deligne

Phillip A. Griffiths

David B. Mumford

THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

The Prize Committee for Mathematics has unanimously decided that the 2008 Wolf Prize will be jointly awarded to:

Pierre R. Deligne
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.

Phillip A. Griffiths
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
for his work on variations of Hodge structures; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.

David B. Mumford
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
for his work on algebraic surfaces; on geometric invariant theory; and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.

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Giya Kancheli

Claudio Abbado

THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Music) will be jointly awarded to

Giya Kancheli
Tbilisi, Georgia, and
Antwerpen, Belgium

one of the world´s greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.

Claudio Abbado
Milano, Italy

one of the world´s pre-eminent conductors. A remarkable human being, whose music-making is imbued with passion, intellect and love.

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Howard Cedar

Aharon Razin

THE 2008 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

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

Howard Cedar and Aharon Razin
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

for their fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of DNA methylation in the control of gene expression.

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Ronald L. Phillips

Michel A.J. Georges

THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

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

Ronald L. Phillips
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

and

Michel A. J. Georges
University of Liège
Liège, Belgium

for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences.

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Albert Fert

Peter Gruenberg

THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

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

Albert Fert
Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS-Thalès
Orsay, France

and
Peter Gruenberg
Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung (IFF)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
Juelich, Germany

for their independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information.

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Stephen Smale

Harry Furstenberg

THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

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

Stephen Smale
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics

and
Harry Furstenberg
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.

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Ada Yonath

George Feher

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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Richard N. Zare

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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Yuan Longping

Steven D. Tanksley

THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Yuan Longping
China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center Mapoling
Hunan Province, China

Steven D. Tanksley
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA

for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple.

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Anthony R. Hunter

Anthony J. Pawson

Alexander Levitzki

THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Anthony R. Hunter
The Salk Institute
La Jolla, California, USA

for the discovery of protein kinases that phosphorylate tyrosine residues in proteins, critical for the regulation of a wide variety of cellular events, including malignant transformation;

Anthony J. Pawson
The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Canada

for his discovery of protein domains essential for mediating protein-protein interactions in cellular signaling pathways, and the insights this research has provided into cancer;

Alexander Levitzki
The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

for pioneering signal transduction therapy and for developing tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer and a range of other diseases.

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Gregory A. Margulis

Sergei P. Novikov

THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Gregory A. Margulis
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA

for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics, and measure theory, and

Sergei P. Novikov
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA; and
L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
Moscow, Russia

for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods

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Michelangelo Pistoletto

THE 2006/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2006/7 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture) will be awarded to the artist

Michelangelo Pistoletto
Biella, Italy

for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist, whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world.

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Daniel Kleppner

THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Daniel Kleppner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for groundbreaking work in atomic physics of hydrogenic systems, including research on the hydrogen maser, Rydberg atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation.

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Mikio Sato

John T. Tate

THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Mikio Sato
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

for his creation of “algebraic analysis”, including hyperfunction and microfunction theory, holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.

John T. Tate
University of Texas
Austin, Texas, USA

for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.

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Robert Brout

Francois Englert

Peter W. Higgs

THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Robert Brout
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium

Francois Englert
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium

Peter W. Higgs
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles.

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Robert A. Weinberg

Roger Y. Tsien

THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Robert A. Weinberg
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and
MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for his discovery that cancer cells including human tumor cells, carry somatically mutated genes-oncogenes that operate to drive their malignant proliferation

Roger Y. Tsien
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, USA

for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction.

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Harry B. Gray

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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R. Michael Roberts

Fuller W. Bazer

THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

R. Michael Roberts
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, USA

Fuller W. Bazer
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA

for discoveries of Interferon-t and other pregnancy-associated proteins, which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to maintain pregnancy, with profound effects on the efficiency of animal production systems, as well as human health and well-being.

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Jean Nouvel

THE 2005 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Jean Nouvel
Paris
France

for providing a new model of contextualism and redefining the dialectic between the two salient characteristics of contemporary architecture: concreteness and ephemerality.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Daniel Barenboim

THE 2004 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

The Prize Committee for the Arts has unanimously decided that the 2004 Wolf Prize in the Arts (Music), will be awarded to

Mstislav Rostropovich
Paris, France

a cellist, conductor, pianist and exceptional human being, who has created a career of monumental proportions;

Daniel Barenboim
State Opera House (Staatsoper unter den Linden), Berlin, Germany, and
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, U.S.A.

a person of profound musical and humanitarian commitment, who has distinguished himself as one of the great musicians of our time.

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Bertrand I. Halperin

Anthony J. Leggett

THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Bertrand I. Halperin
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Anthony J. Leggett
University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois, USA

for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics: Leggett on superfluidity of the light helium isotope and macroscopic quantum phenomena; and Halperin on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons.

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Ralph L. Brinster

Mario R. Capecchi

Oliver Smithies

THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Ralph L. Brinster
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

for the development of procedures to manipulate mouse ova and embryos, which has enabled transgenesis and its applications in mice,

Mario R. Capecchi
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Oliver Smithies
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

for their contribution to the development of gene-targeting, enabling elucidation of gene function in mice.

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Roger N. Beachy

James W. Womack

THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Roger N. Beachy
Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, Missouri, USA

James E. Womack
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA

for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant and animal sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields.

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Henri B. Kagan

Ryoji Noyori

K. Barry Sharpless

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 mankind´s ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.

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