Sir David Baulcombe

The Prize Committee for Agriculture has unanimously decided that the 2010 Wolf Prize be awarded to:

Sir David Baulcombe
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, Britain

for his pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants is of profound importance, not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine.

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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 worldīs greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.

Claudio Abbado
Milano, Italy

one of the worldīs 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 mankindīs ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.

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Vladimir I. Arnold

Saharon Shelah

THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Vladimir I. Arnold
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Moscow, Russia, and
University Paris-Dauphine
Paris, France

for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.

Saharon Shelah
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel

for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.

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Gurdev S. Khush

THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Gurdev S. Khush
International Rice Research Institute
Makati City, Philippines

for his extraordinary contribution to theoretical research in plant genetics, evolution and breeding especially of rice, with regard to food production and alleviation of hunger.

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Raoul Bott

Jean-Pierre Serre

THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Raoul Bott
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
for his deep discoveries in topology and differencial geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.

Jean-Pierre Serre
College de France
Paris, France

for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and his inspirational lectures and writing.

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Avram Hershko

Alexander Varshavsky

THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Avram Hershko
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Alexander Varshavsky
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation.

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F. Albert Cotton

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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Raymond Davis Jr.

Masatoshi Koshiba

THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Raymond Davis Jr.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, N.Y., USA

Masatoshi Koshiba
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, thus creating the emerging field of neutrino astronomy.

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Louise Bourgeois

THE 2002/3 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN THE ARTS

Louise Bourgeois
New York, USA

for an oeuvre, that for six decades and encompassing a remarkable range of media, has sustained aesthetic and formal innovation, intellectual complexity and contemporary relevance.

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Eric R. Kandel

THE 1999 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Eric R. Kandel
Columbia University
New York, N.Y., USA

for the elucidation of the organismic, cellular and molecular mechanisms whereby short-term memory is converted to a long-term form.

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Laszlo Lovasz

Elias M. Stein

THE 1999 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Laszlo Lovasz
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary

for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.

Elias M. Stein
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his contributions to classical and "Euclidean" Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing.

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Dan Shechtman

THE 1999 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Dan Shechtman
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

for the experimental discovery of quasi-crystals, non-periodic solids having long-range order, which inspired the exploration of a new fundamental state of matter.

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Ilan Chet

Baldur R. Stefansson

THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Ilan Chet
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Faculty of Agriculture
Rehovot, Israel

Baldur R. Stefansson
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

for their contributions to the environmentally safe development of world agriculture through innovative approaches in plant breeding and bio-control.

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Alvaro Siza

THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Alvaro Siza
Porto, Portugal

for the critical relevance of his typically responsive architecture to the continual transformation of both landscape and urban fabric.

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Raymond U. Lemieux

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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Joseph B. Keller

Yakov G. Sinai

THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Joseph B. Keller
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for his innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.

Yakov G. Sinai
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA, and
Landau Institute of Theroetical Physics
Moscow, Russia

for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.

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Neal L. First

THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Neal L. First
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

for his pioneering research in the reproductive biology of livestock.

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Pierre Boulez

Riccardo Muti

THE 2000 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Pierre Boulez
IRCAM
Paris, France

One of the most creative living personalities in the realm of music.

Riccardo Muti
Teatro alla Scala
Milano, Italy

One of the most outstanding conductors of our time.

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Gerhard Ertl

Gabor A. Somorjai

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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Yakir Aharonov

Sir Michael V. Berry

THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Yakir Aharonov
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel,
and University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Sir Michael V. Berry
Bristol University
Bristol, United Kingdom

for the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase, and their incorporation into many fields of physics.

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Michael Sela

Ruth Arnon

THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Michael Sela
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

Ruth Arnon
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

for their major discoveries in the field of immunology.

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John A. Wheeler

THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

John A. Wheeler
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
and University of Texas
Austin, Texas, USA

for his seminal contributions to black holes physics, to quantum gravity, and to the theories of nuclear scattering and nuclear fission.

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Robert P. Langlands

Andrew J. Wiles

THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Robert P. Langlands
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number thory, automorphic forms and group representation.

Andrew J. Wiles
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat’s last theorem.

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James Turrell

THE 1998 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

James Turrell
Flagstaff, Arizona
USA

His highly individualistic imagery is a spiritualized synthesis of form and light in seemingly infinite space.

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Morris Schnitzer

Frank J. Stevenson

THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Morris Schnitzer
Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research
Agriculture Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Frank J. Stevenson
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois, USA

for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter and its application to agriculture.

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Mary Frances Lyon

THW 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Mary Frances Lyon
Medical Research Council
Harwell, Didcot, United Kingdom

for her hypothesis concerning the random inactivation of X-chromosomes in mammals.

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Gilbert Stork

Samuel J. Danishefsky

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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Vitaly L. Ginzburg

Yoichiro Nambu

THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Lebedev Physical Institute
Moscow, Russia

for his contributions to the theory of superconductivity and to the theory of high-energy processes in astrophysics.

Yoichiro Nambu
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

for his contribution to elementary particle theory, including recognition of the role played by spontaneous symmetry-breaking in analogy with uperconductivity theory, and the discovery of the color symmetry of the strong interactions.

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Aldo Van Eyck

Frei Otto

THE 1996/7 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Frei Otto
Leonberg, Germany

Aldo Van Eyck
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

for their fundamental structural contributions to the advancement of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the evolution of the Twentieth Century.

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Stanley B. Prusiner

THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Stanley B. Prusiner
University of California, School of Medicine
San Francisco, California, USA

for discovering prions, a new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structure.

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Richard A. Lerner

Peter G. Schultz

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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Carl B. Huffaker

Perry L. Adkisson

THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Carl B. Huffaker
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

Perry L. Adkisson
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, USA

for their contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops.

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Jurgen K. Moser

THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Jurgen K. Moser
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian mechanics and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.

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Benoit B. Mandelbrot

THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Benoit B. Mandelbrot
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, N.Y., USA

by recognizing the widespread occurrence of fractals and developing mathematical tools for describing them, he has changed our view of nature.

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Michael J. Berridge

Yasutomi Nishizuka

THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Michael J. Berridge
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Yasutomi Nishizuka
Kobe University School of Medicine
Kobe, Japan

for their discoveries concerning cellular transmembrane signalling involving phospholipids and calcium.

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Zubin Mehta

Gyorgy Ligeti

THE 1995/6 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Zubin Mehta
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Tel Aviv, Israel

who is considered one of the world’s foremost conductors of our time. His humanitarian contributions to bring people together through the universal language of music and his constant encouragement of young artists, are unforgettable.

Gyorgy Ligeti
Hochschule fuer Musik
Hamburg, Germany

One of the most outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century. While based on musical tradition, he has brought new ways, original and innovative, and created models to inspire younger generations of composers.

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John E. Casida

THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

John E. Casida
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for his pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects.

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Mikhael Gromov

Jacques Tits

THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Mikhael Gromov
IHES - Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
Bures-sur-Yvette, France

for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemmanian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.

Jacques Tits
College de France
Paris, France

for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.

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Ahmed H. Zewail

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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John A. Pople

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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Gerhard Richter

THE 1994/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Gerhard Richter
Cologne, Germany

for his vast artistic activity, which has influenced the contemporary art scene of the past three decades.

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M. Judah Folkman

THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

M. Judah Folkman
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

for his discoveries which originated the concept and developed the field of angiogenesis research.

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Lennart A. E. Carleson

John G. Thompson

THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Lennart A. E. Carleson
University of Uppsala
Uppsala, Sweden, and
University of California
Los Angeles, California, USA

for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasi-conformal mappings and dynamical systems.

John G. Thompson
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.

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Shang-Fa Yang

THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Shang-Fa Yang
University of California
Davis, California, USA

for his remarkable contributions to the understanding of the mechanism of biosynthesis, mode of action and applications of the plant hormone, Ethylene.

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Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his discovery of an orbiting radio pulsar and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision.

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Richard R. Ernst

Alexander Pines

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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Ennio De Giorgi

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Ennio De Giorgi
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa, Italy

for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
Tel-Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.

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Bruce Nauman

THE 1993 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Bruce Nauman
Galisteo, New Mexico, USA

for distinguished work as a sculptor and his extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century art.

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Jozef Stefaan Schell

THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Jozef Stefaan Schell
Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding
Cologne, Germany

for his pioneering work in genetic transformation of plants, thereby opening up new horizons in basic plant science and breeding.

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Maurice Goldhaber

Valentine L. Telegdi

THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Maurice Goldhaber
Brookhaven National Laboratory
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.

Valentine L. Telegdi
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

for their separate seminal contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly those concerning the weak interactions involving leptons.

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Seymour Benzer

THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MDICINE

Seymour Benzer
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for having generated a new field of molecular neurogenetics by his pioneering research on the dissection of the nervous system and behavior by gene mutations.

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Alberto P. Calderon

John W. Milnor

THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Alberto P. Calderon
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to important problems in partial differential equations.

John W. Milnor
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.

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Peter M. Biggs

Michael Elliott

THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Peter M. Biggs
AFRC Institute for Animal Health
Huntingdon, United Kingdom

Michael Elliott
AFRC Institute of Arable Crops Research
Rothamsted, United Kingdom

for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection.

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Duilio Arigoni

Alan R. Battersby

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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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

David J. Thouless

THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATON PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
College de France
Paris, France

David J. Thouless
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA

for a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems,de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.

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Frank O. Gehry

Jorn Utzon

Sir Denys Lasdun

THE 1992 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Frank O. Gehry
Santa Monica, California, USA

Creating architecture as art and sculpture, he embodies the fight for liberation destroying dogma, principle and method.

Jorn Utzon
Aalsgaarde, Denmark

His architecture, rooted in deep reading of human cultures, has given shape to processes of ritual and assembly in forms of haunting presence.

Sir Denys Lasdun
London, United Kingdom

With architecture as a social art, he enhances the relations between people through primary architectural means that far transcend style.

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Maclyn McCarty

THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Maclyn McCarty
The Rockefeller University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his part in the demostration that the transforming factor in bacteria is due to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the concomitant discovery that the genetic material is composed of DNA.

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John B. Gurdon

Edward B. Lewis

THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

John B. Gurdon
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.

Edward B. Lewis
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, U.S.A.

for his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.

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Sir Yehudi Menuhin

Luciano Berio

THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Sir Yehudi Menuhin
London, United Kingdom

One of the greatest violinists of the 20th. century, his unforgettable interpretations and humanitarian activities contributed significantly to bringing nations together through musical education.

Luciano Berio
Siena, Italy

One of the greatest composers of our generation, he is also recognized and admired worldwide as interpreter, conductor, lecturer and writer whose new ideas, in an age of devaluation of human values, help to bring closer nations, cultures and generations.

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Friedrich Hirzebruch

Lars Hormander

THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Friedrich Hirzebruch
Max-Planck-Institut and University of Bonn
Bonn, Germany

for outstanding work combining topology, algebraic and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.

Lars Hormander
University of Lund
Lund, Sweden

for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo-differential and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.

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Roger Penrose

Stephen W. Hawking

THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Roger Penrose
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

Stephen W. Hawking
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for their brilliant development of the theory of general relativity, in which they have shown the necessity for cosmological singularities and have elucidated the physics of black holes. In this work they have greatly enlarged our understanding of the origin and possible fate of the Universe.

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Charles Thibault

Ernest J. Ch. Polge

THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Charles Thibault
Universite de Paris VI
Paris, France

Ernest John Christopher Polge
Biotechnology Cambridge Ltd.
Cambridge, United Kingdom

for pioneering work in reproductive physiology including cell preservation, fertilization processes, egg biology and embryo manipulations for domestic animal improvement.

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Joshua Jortner

Raphael D. Levine

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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Theodor O. Diener

THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Theodor O. Diener
Plant Protection Institute, USDA
Beltsville, Maryland, USA
for his discovery and pioneering fundamental research on viroids and his applied work on viroid detection in crops.

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Herbert Friedman

Bruno B. Rossi

Riccardo Giacconi

THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Herbert Friedman
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C., USA

for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays.

Bruno B. Rossi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Riccardo Giacconi
Space Telescope Science Institute
and Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

for the discovery of extra-solar X-ray sources and the elucidation of their physical processes.

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Anselm Kiefer

THE 1990 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Anselm Kiefer
Buchen, Germany

for his epic and physically compelling paintings, in which he creates a continuum, linking current life with history and mythology.

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Kiyoshi Ito

Peter D. Lax

THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Kiyoshi Ito
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.

Peter D. Lax
New York University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.

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Henri-Gery Hers

Elizabeth F. Nuefeld

THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Henri-Gery Hers
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Brussels, Belgium

Elizabeth F. Neufeld
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California, USA

for the biochemical elucidation of lysosomal storage diseases and the resulting contributions to biology, pathology, prenatal diagnosis and therapeutics.

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Sir David C. Phillips

David M. Blow

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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Elias J. Corey

Albert Eschenmoser

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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Claes T. Oldenburg

THE 1989 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Claes T. Oldenburg
New York, N.Y., USA

who, over some three decades, has invested prosaic objects with historic and mythical allusions. For all the simplicity of their subject matter, they are statements about metamorphosis and invite the observer to reflect upon lifeīs processes.

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Mitchell J. Feigenbaum

Albert J. Libchaber

HE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y., USA

for his pioneering theoretical studies demonstrating the universal character of non-linear systems, which has made possible the systematic study of chaos.

Albert J. Libchaber
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

for his brilliant experimental demonstration of the transition to turbulence and chaos in dynamical systems.

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Pedro Cuatrecasas

Meir Wilchek

THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Pedro Cuatrecasas
Glaxo Inc.
Research Triangle Park, N.Carolina, USA

Meir Wilchek
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences.

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Samuel Eilenberg

Atle Selberg

THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Samuel Eilenberg
Columbia University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology and homological algebra.

Atle Selberg
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his profound and original work on number theory and on discrete groups and automorphic forms.

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Sir Ralph Riley

Ernest R. Sears

THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Sir Ralph Riley
Agricultural and Food Research Council
London, United Kingdom

Ernest R. Sears
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, USA

for their fundamental research in cytogenetics of wheat, providing the basis for genetic improvement of cereal grains.

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Rudolph A. Marcus

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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Robert H. Burris

THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Robert H. Burris
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

for his pioneering fundamental research on the mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation and its application in crop production.

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Fumihikio Maki

Giancarlo De Carlo

THE 1988 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Fumihiko Maki
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Giancarlo De Carlo
Institute of Architecture
Venice, Italy

for their work which represents the spirit of an architecture that looks to the future without renouncing the past; brings about meaningful shapes and environments without forsaking human and social aspects and responds to universal issues without neglecting regional attributes.

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Conyers Herring

Philippe Nozieres

THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Conyers Herring
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

Philippe Nozieres
Institut Laue-Langevin
Grenoble, France

for their major contributions to the fundamental theory of solids, especially of the behaviour of electronsin metals.

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Osamu Hayaishi

THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Osamu Hayaishi
Osaka Medical College
Osaka, Japan

for his discovery of the oxygenase enzymes and elucidation of their structure and biological importance.

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Kunihiko Kodaira

Hans Lewy

THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Kunihiko Kodaira
The Japan Academy
Tokyo, Japan

for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.

Hans Lewy
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.

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Don Kirkham

Cornelis T. De Wit

THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Don Kirkham
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA

Cornelis T. De Wit
Agricultural University
Wageningen, Netherlands

for their innovative contributions to the quantitative understanding of soil-water and other environmental interactions influencing crop growth and yield.

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Donald F. Steiner

THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Donald F. Steiner
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA

for his discoveries concerning the bio-synthesis and processing of insulin which have had profound implications for basic biology and clinical medicine.

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Isaac Stern

Krzysztof Penderecki

THE 1987 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Isaac Stern
New York, N.Y., USA

for his everlasting humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator, which transcends the boundaries of musical performance.

Krzysztof Penderecki
Krakow, Poland

for his achievements and innovations in the field of composition.

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Shiing S. Chern

Paul Erdos

THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATON PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Shiing S. Chern
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.

Paul Erdos
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.

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Erwin L. Hahn

Sir Peter B. Hirsh

Theodore H. Maiman

THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Erwin L. Hahn
University of California
Berkeley, California, USA

for his discovery of nuclear spin echoes and for the phenomenon of self-induced transparency.

Sir Peter B. Hirsh
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

for his development of the utilization of the transmission electron microscope as a universal instrumentto study the structure of crystalline matter.

Theodore H. Maiman
Maiman Associates
Marina del Rey, California, USA

for his realization of the first operating laser, the pulsed three level ruby laser.

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Herbert S. Gutowsky

Harden M. McConnell

John S. Waugh

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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Jean-Pierre Changeux

Solomon H. Snyder

Sir James W. Black

THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Jean-Pierre Changeux
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France

for the isolation, purification and characterization of the acetylcholine receptor.

Solomon H. Snyder
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

for the development of the ways to label neurotransmitter receptors which provide tools to describe their properties.

Sir James W. Black
Wellcome Research Laboratories
Beckenham, Kent, United Kingdom

for developing agents which block beta adrenergic and histamine receptors.

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Hassler Whitney

Mark G. Krein

THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Hassler Whitney
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.

Mark G. Krein
Ukrainian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
Odessa, U.S.S.R.

for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.

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Leon M. Lederman

Martin M. Perl

THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Leon M. Lederman
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois, USA

Martin M. Perl
Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, California, USA

for their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation of quarks and leptons.

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John C. Polanyi

George C. Pimentel

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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Jasper Johns

THE 1986 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (PAINTING)

Jasper Johns
New York, N.Y., USA

One of the leading and most influential figures of Pop Art in the world since its inception.

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Wendell Roelofs

THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Wendell L. Roelofs
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell University
Geneva, N.Y., USA

for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control.

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Eduardo Chillida

THE 1984/5 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (SCULPTURE)

Eduardo Chillida
San Sebastian, Spain

His sculpture, expressing a fruitful imagination and a practical beauty of forms, combines tradition and innovation in a contemporary guise.

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John O. Almquist

Henry A. Lardy

Glenn W. Salisbury

THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

John O. Almquist
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement.

Henry A. Lardy
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice.

Glenn W. Salisbury
University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois, USA

for his outstanding achievements in basic and applied research on artificial insemination.

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Freeman J. Dyson

Gerard īT Hooft

Victor F. Weisskopf

THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Freeman J. Dyson
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Gerard īT Hooft
University of Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Victor F. Weisskopf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of fields.

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Barbara McClintock

Stanley N. Cohen

THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Barbara McClintock
Carnegie Institute of Washington
Cold Spring Harbor Lab., New York,USA

for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behaviour and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.

Stanley N. Cohen
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, USA

for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. coli by the recombinant DNA method.

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Lars V. Ahlfors

Oscar Zariski

THE 1981 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Lars V. Ahlfors
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.

Oscar Zariski
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.

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Joseph Chatt

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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Ralph Erskine

THE 1983/4 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (ARCHITECTURE)

Ralph Erskine
Drottningholm, Sweden

for his fundamental contribution to contemporary architecture, based on his creative spirit, solving human problems in a highly original formal language.

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Michael E. Fisher

Leo P. Kadanoff

Kenneth G. Wilson

THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Michael E. Fisher
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y., USA

Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kenneth G. Wilson
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y., USA

for pathbreaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at transitions between the different thermodynamic phases of matter.

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Henri Cartan

Andrei N. Kolmogorov

THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Henri Cartan
Universite de Paris
Paris, France

for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables, homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.

Andrei N. Kolmogorov
Moscow State University
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

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Henry Eyring

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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Karl Maramorosch

THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Karl Maramorosch
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, N.J., USA

for his pioneering and wide-ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants.

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Cesar Milstein

Leo Sachs

Sir James L. Gowans

THE 1980 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Cesar Milstein
Medical Research Council
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leo Sachs
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

Sir James L. Gowans
Medical Research Council
London, United Kingdom

for their contributions to knowledge of the function and disfunction of the body cells through their studies on the immunological role of the lymphocytes, the development of specific antibodies and the elucidation of mechanisms governing the control and differentiation of normal and cancer cells.

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Vladimir Horowitz

Olivier Messiaen

Josef Tal

THE 1982 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN ARTS (MUSIC)

Vladimir Horowitz
New York, N.Y., USA

for his outstanding contribution to the art of musical interpretation, and especially his musicalization of pianism.

Olivier Messiaen
Paris, France

for his inspired and inspiring extension of our sound world.

Josef Tal
Jerusalem, Israel

for his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the unfailing dramatic tension of his creations.

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Jay L. Lush

Sir Kenneth Blaxter

THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

Jay L. Lush
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA

for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the application of genetics to livestock improvement.

Sir Kenneth Blaxter
Rowett Research Institute
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

for his fundamental contributions to the science and practice of ruminant nutrition and livestock production.

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George E. Uhlenbeck

Giuseppe Occhialini

THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

George E. Uhlenbeck
Rockefeller University
New York, N.Y., USA

for his discovery, jointly with the late S.A. Goudsmit, of the electron spin.

Giuseppe Occhialini
University of Milan
Milan, Italy

for his contributions to the discoveries of electron pair production and of the charged pion.

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Roger W. Sperry

Arvid Carlsson

Oleh Hornykiewicz

THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

Roger W. Sperry
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, USA

for his studies on the functional differentiation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.

Arvid Carlsson
University of Goteborg
Goteborg, Sweden

for his work which established the role of dopamine as a neurotransmitter.

Oleh Hornykiewicz
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

for opening a new approach in the control of Parkinsonīs disease by L-Dopa.

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Herman F. Mark

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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Jean Leray

Andre Weil

THE 1979 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Jean Leray
College de France
Paris, France

for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.

Andre Weil
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

for his inspired introduction of algebro-geometry methods to the theory of numbers.

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George F. Sprague

John C. Walker

THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN AGRICULTURE

George F. Sprague
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois, USA

for his outstanding research on the genetic amelioration of maize for human welfare.

John C. Walker
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

for his research in plant pathology, developing of disease-resistant varieties of major food plants.

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Izrail M. Gelfand

Carl S. Siegel

THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS

Izrail M. Gelfand
Moscow State University
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

for his work in functional analysis, group representation, and for his seminal contributions to many areas of mathematics and its applications.

Carl L. Siegel
Georg-August University
Goettingen, Germany

for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics.

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George D. Snell

Jean Dausset

John J. van Rood

THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN MEDICINE

George D. Snell
Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

for discovery of H-2 antigens, which codes for major transplantation antigens and the onset of the immune response.

Jean Dausset
Saint-Louis Hospital
Paris, France

for discovering the HL-A system, the major histocompatibility complex in man and its primordial role in organ transplantation.

Jon J. van Rood
University of Leiden
Leiden, The Netherlands

for his contribution to the understanding of the complexity of the HL-A system in man and its implications in transplantation and in disease.

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Carl Djerassi

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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Chien-Shiung Wu

THE 1978 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Chien-Shiung Wu
Columbia University
New York, N.Y., USA

for exploring the weak interaction, helping establish the precise form and the non-conservation of parity for this natural force.

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