Wolf Prize

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Ricardo Wolf (right) in Jerusalem in 1960

The Wolf Prize (Wolf Prize) has been awarded to scientists and artists by the Israel- based Wolf Foundation since 1978 . It is awarded for “services to the good of mankind and friendly relations among peoples”.

The award was donated by Ricardo Wolf , a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel.

It is awarded in six disciplines and is endowed with $ 100,000 each . In the natural sciences, after the Nobel Prize and in mathematics, alongside the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal, it is one of the most prestigious awards in the world.

Prize winner in agricultural science

1978 George F. Sprague , John C. Walker
1979 Jay Lush , Kenneth Blaxter
1980 Karl Maramorosch
1981 John O. Almquist , Henry A. Lardy , Glenn W. Salisbury
1982 Wendell L. Roelofs
1983/4 Don Kirkham , Cornellis T. de Witt
1984/5 Robert H. Burris
1986 Sir Ralph Riley , Ernest R. Sears
1987 Theodor O. Diener
1988 Charles Thibault , Ernest John Christopher Polge
1989 Peter M. Biggs , Michael Elliott
1990 Jozef Schell
1991 Shang-Fa Yang
1992 Not awarded
1993 John E. Casida
1994/5 Carl B. Huffaker , Perry L. Adkisson
1995/6 Morris Schnitzer , Frank J. Stevenson
1996/7 Neal L. First
1998 Ilan Chet , Baldur R. Stefansson
1999 Not awarded
2000 Gurdev S. Khush
2001 Roger N. Beachy , James E. Womack
2002/3 R. Michael Roberts , Fuller W. Bazer
2004 Yuan Longping , Steven D. Tanksley
2005 Not awarded
2006/7 Ronald L. Phillips , Michel AJ Georges
2008 John A. Pickett , James H. Tumlinson , W. Joe Lewis
2009 Not awarded
2010 David Baulcombe
2011 Harris A. Lewin , James R. Cook
2012 Not awarded
2013 Jared Diamond , Joachim Messing
2014 Jorge Dubcovsky , Leif Andersson
2015 Linda J. Saif
2016 Trudy Mackay
2017 Not awarded
2018 Gene Robinson
2019 David Zilberman
2020 Caroline Dean

Prize winner in chemistry

1978 Carl Djerassi
1979 Hermann F. Mark
1980 Henry Eyring
1981 Joseph Chatt
1982 John C. Polanyi , George C. Pimentel
1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky , Harden M. McConnell , John S. Waugh
1984/5 Rudolph Arthur Marcus
1986 Elias James Corey Jr. , Albert Eschenmoser
1987 Sir David C. Phillips , David M. Blow
1988 Joshua Jortner , Raphael David Levine
1989 Duilio Arigoni , Alan Battersby
1990 Not awarded
1991 Richard R. Ernst , Alexander Pines
1992 John Anthony Pople
1993 Ahmed Zewail
1994 Richard A. Lerner , Peter G. Schultz
1995 Gilbert Stork , Samuel Danishefsky
1996 Not awarded
1998 Gerhard Ertl , Gábor A. Somorjai
1999 Raymond Lemieux
2000 Frank Albert Cotton
2001 Henri Kagan , Ryōji Noyori , Barry Sharpless
2002/3 Not awarded
2004 Harry B. Gray
2005 Richard N. Zare
2006/7 Ada Yonath , George Feher
2008 William Moerner , Allen J. Bard
2009 Not awarded
2010 Not awarded
2011 Stuart A. Rice , Ching W. Tang , Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
2012 A. Paul Alivisatos , Charles M. Lieber
2013 Robert S. Langer
2014 Chi-Huey Wong
2015 Not awarded
2016 Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou , Stuart Schreiber
2017 Robert Bergman
2018 Omar Yaghi , Makoto Fujita
2019 Stephen L. Buchwald , John F. Hartwig
2020 Not awarded

Prize winner in mathematics

1978: Israel Moissejewitsch Gelfand , Carl Ludwig Siegel
1979: Jean Leray , André Weil
1980: Henri Cartan , Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow
1981: Lars Valerian Ahlfors , Oscar Zariski
1982: Hassler Whitney , Mark Grigoryevich Kerin
1983/4: Shiing-Shen Chern , Paul Erdős
1984/5: Kunihiko Kodaira , Hans Lewy
1986: Samuel Eilenberg , Atle Selberg
1987: Itō Kiyoshi , Peter Lax
1988: Friedrich Hirzebruch , Lars Hörmander
1989: Alberto Calderón , John Willard Milnor
1990: Ennio de Giorgi , Ilja Pjatetskij-Shapiro
1991: Not awarded
1992: Lennart Carleson , John Griggs Thompson
1993: Michail Leonidowitsch Gromow , Jacques Tits
1994/5: Jürgen Moser
1995/6: Robert Langlands , Andrew Wiles
1996/7: Joseph B. Keller , Jakow Grigorjewitsch Sinai
1998: Not awarded
1999: László Lovász , Elias Stein
2000: Raoul Bott , Jean-Pierre Serre
2001: Vladimir Igorewitsch Arnold , Saharon Shelah
2002/3: Mikio Satō , John T. Tate
2004: Not awarded
2005: Grigory Alexandrowitsch Margulis , Sergei Petrowitsch Novikow
2006/7: Stephen Smale , Hillel Fürstenberg
2008: Pierre Deligne , Phillip Griffiths , David Bryant Mumford
2009: Not awarded
2010: Shing-Tung Yau , Dennis Sullivan
2011: Not awarded
2012: Michael Aschbacher , Luis Caffarelli
2013: George D. Mostow , Michael Artin
2014: Peter Sarnak
2015: James G. Arthur
2016: Not awarded
2017: Charles Fefferman , Richard Schoen
2018: Alexander Beilinson , Vladimir Drinfeld
2019: Jean-François Le Gall , Gregory Lawler
2020: Simon K. Donaldson , Yakov Eliashberg

Prize winner in medicine

1978 George Davis Snell , Jean Dausset , Jon van Rood
1979 Roger Sperry , Arvid Carlsson , Oleh Hornykiewicz
1980 César Milstein , Leo Sachs , Sir James L. Gowans
1981 Barbara McClintock , Stanley Norman Cohen
1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux , Solomon H. Snyder , James Whyte Black
1983/4 Not awarded
1984/5 Donald F. Steiner
1986 Osamu Hayaishi
1987 Pedro Cuatrecasas , Meir Wilchek
1988 Henri-Géry Hers , Elizabeth F. Neufeld
1989 John Gurdon , Edward B. Lewis
1990 Maclyn McCarty
1991 Seymour Benzer
1992 Judah Folkman
1993 Not awarded
1994/5 Michael Berridge , Yasutomi Nishizuka
1995/6 Stanley Prusiner
1996/7 Mary Frances Lyon
1998 Michael Sela , Ruth Arnon
1999 Eric Kandel
2000 Not awarded
2001 Avram Hershko , Alexander Varshavsky
2002/3 Ralph L. Brinster , Mario Capecchi , Oliver Smithies
2004 Robert Allan Weinberg , Roger Tsien
2005 Tony Hunter , Anthony Pawson , Alexander Levitzki
2006/7 Not awarded
2008 Howard Cedar , Aharon Razin
2009 Not awarded
2010 Axel Ullrich
2011 Shin'ya Yamanaka , Rudolf Jaenisch
2012 Ronald M. Evans
2013 Not awarded
2014 Nahum Sonenberg , Gary Ruvkun , Victor Ambros
2015 John Kappler , Philippa Marrack , Jeffrey Ravetch
2016 C. Ronald Kahn , Lewis C. Cantley
2017 James P. Allison
2018 Not awarded
2019 Jeffrey M. Friedman
2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier , Jennifer Doudna

Prize winner in physics

1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck , Giuseppe Occhialini
1980 Michael E. Fisher , Leo Kadanoff , Kenneth Wilson
1981 Freeman Dyson , Gerardus' t Hooft , Victor Weisskopf
1982 Leon Max Lederman , Martin L. Perl
1983/4 Erwin Hahn , Sir Peter B. Hirsch , Theodore Maiman
1984/5 Conyers Herring , Philippe Nozières
1986 Mitchell Feigenbaum , Albert J. Libchaber
1987 Herbert Friedman , Bruno Rossi , Riccardo Giacconi
1988 Roger Penrose , Stephen Hawking
1989 Not awarded
1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , David J. Thouless
1991 Maurice Goldhaber , Valentine Telegdi
1992 Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
1993 Benoît Mandelbrot
1994/5 Witali Lasarewitsch Ginsburg , Yōichirō Nambu
1995/6 Not awarded
1996/7 John Archibald Wheeler
1998 Yakir Aharonov , Sir Michael Berry
1999 Dan Shechtman
2000 Raymond Davis junior , Masatoshi Koshiba
2001 Not awarded
2002/3 Bertrand Halperin , Anthony James Leggett
2004 Robert Brout , François Englert , Peter Higgs
2005 Daniel Kleppner
2006/7 Albert Fert , Peter Grünberg
2008 Not awarded
2009 Not awarded
2010 John Clauser , Alain Aspect , Anton Zeilinger
2011 Maximilian Haider , Harald Rose , Knut Urban
2012 Jacob Bekenstein
2013 Peter Zoller , Ignacio Cirac
2014 Not awarded
2015 James D. Bjorken , Robert P. Kirshner
2016 Yoseph Imry
2017 Michel Mayor , Didier Queloz
2018 Charles H. Bennett , Gilles Brassard
2019 Not awarded
2020 Rafi Bistritzer , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Allan H. MacDonald

Prize winner in art

literature

SS Chern , Friedrich Hirzebruch (Ed.): Wolf Prize in Mathematics, 2 volumes, World Scientific 2000

Web links

Commons : Wolf Prize - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wolf Foundation website (English, Hebrew)