WOLF PRIZE RECIPIENTS IN MATHEMATICS Citations for the prizewinners.Category Science Math Reference Prizeswolf prize RECIPIENTS IN MATHEMATICS 1978. IZRAIL M. GELFAND, MoscowState University, Moscow, USSR, for his work in functional analysis http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/wolf5.html
Extractions: 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, and CARL L. SIEGEL , Georg-August University, Gottingen, W. Germany, for his contributions to the theory of numbers, theory of several complex variables, and celestial mechanics. JEAN LERAY, College de France, Paris, France, for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations; and ANDRE WEIL, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A., for his inspired introduction of algebro-geometry methods to the theory of numbers. 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; and 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. LARS V. AHLFORS, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A., for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory; and OSCAR ZARISKI, Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A., creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.
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Extractions: News By Ron Kaufman Date: March 22, 1993, pp.22 Fractal Developer Wins Wolf Prize Science Historian Is Elected To Congress Robert W. Holley - Obituary Benoit B. Mandelbrot, a fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., will be awarded the 1993 Wolf Prize in Physics by the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation on May 16. Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation has been granting $100,000 prizes for individual achievements in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. This year, the prizes will be presented by Israeli President Chaim Herzog at the Knesset building in Jerusalem. "I never liked mathematics by itself. I didn't like its dryness or abstraction," Mandelbrot says. "So I spent all my life being a mathematician without being a member of the core mathematics community. I've always done things my own way, which is why all my work has been used by many different disciplines." In addition to gaining satisfaction from the cross-disciplinary utility of his work, Mandelbrot says, he is extremely pleased that fractals are easily understood by high school and college teachers.
WOLF PRIZE RECIPIENTS IN PHYSICS in Moscow and Saharon Shelah of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem will share the 2001 wolf prize in Mathematics. http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/wolf7.html
Extractions: CHIEN-SHIUNG WU, Columbia University, N.Y., U.S.A., for exploring the weak interaction, helping establish the precise form and the non-conservation of parity for this natural force. GEORGE UHLENBECK, Rockefeller University, N.Y., U.S.A., for his discovery, jointly with the late S.A. Goudsmit, of the electron spin; and GIUSEPPE OCCHIALINI, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, for his contributions to the discoveries of electron pair production and of the charged pion. MICHAEL E. FISHER, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.; LEO P. KADANOFF, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A., and KENNETH G. WILSON, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A., for pathbreaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at transitions between the different thermodynamic phases of matter. FREEMAN J. DYSON, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A.;GERARD 't HOOFT, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; and VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A., for their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of fields. LEON M. LEDERMAN, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, U.S.A. and MARTIN M. PERL, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, U.S.A., for their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation of quarks and leptons.
WOLF PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS wolf prize IN MATHEMATICS Volume 2 edited by SS Chern (Nankai University, China) F Hirzebruch (Universität Bonn MaxPlanck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn http://www.wspc.com/books/mathematics/4521.html
Extractions: The Wolf Prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, often goes to mathematicians who are in their sixties or older. That is to say, the Prize honours the achievements of a lifetime. This invaluable book features bibliographies, important papers, and speeches (for example at international congresses) of Wolf Prize winners, such as R Bott, A P Calderón, A N Kolmogorov, M G Krein, P Lax, H Lewy, L Lovász, J Milnor, J Moser, I Piatetski-Shapiro, J P Serre, C L Siegel, Y Sinai, E M Stein, J Tits, A Weil, H Whitney, A Wiles and O Zariski. This is the first time that documents on Wolf Prize winners have been published together. Since the work of the Wolf laureates covers a wide spectrum, much of the mathematics of the twentieth century comes to life in this book.
List Of Academy Members Awarded The Wolf Prize American Academy of Arts Sciences, Home News Academy Members Awardedthe wolf prize. List of Academy Members Awarded the wolf prize. Agriculture. http://www.amacad.org/news/wolflist.htm
Extractions: Home News > Sharpless Awarded Wolf Prize in Chemistry The Wolf Foundation was established in 1976 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf (1887-1981), inventor, diplomat, and philanthropist, and his wife Francisca Subirana-Wolf (1900-1981), "to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind." Based in Israel, the Wolf Foundation awards five science prizes each year, in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Each award carries a $100,000 prize. The foundation also gives an annual prize in the arts. Sharpless, elected to the Academy in 1984, joins 20 Fellows and Foreign Honorary members who are previous winners of the chemistry prize. Click here for a complete list of Fellows who have received the Wolf Prize or see this year's Wolf Prize winners in math medicine, and the arts For more information, please call Suzanne Morse at (617) 576-5047 or email smorse@amacad.org
PhysicsWeb - Neutrino Pioneers Win Wolf Prize Neutrino pioneers win wolf prize 21 January 2000. The 2000 wolf prizefor physics has been awarded to Ray Davies of the University http://physicsweb.org/article/news/4/1/10
Extractions: 21 January 2000 The 2000 Wolf Prize for physics has been awarded to Ray Davies of the University of Pennsylvania in the US and Masatoshi Koshiba of the University of Tokyo for their pioneering work in the field of neutrino astronomy. The prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, is often considered the most important prize in physics after the Nobel prize. Davis and Koshiba will be presented with the $100000 prize by the president of Israel in May. In 1967 Davis, then at the Brookhaven National Lab, built the first experiment to detect neutrinos produced by the Sun. Neutrinos only interact weakly with matter and are extremely difficult to detect. Davis's experiment, which consisted of 615 tonnes of dry-cleaning fluid in the Homestake gold mine in South Dakota, detected less than half the flux of neutrinos predicted by widely accepted models of the Sun. The results could only be explained if these models were wrong, or if the neutrino had mass. For 20 years Davis's detector was the world's only solar neutrino detector. Then, in 1987, Koshiba and colleagues started taking data with the Kamiokande detector, which was located 1000 metres underground in a lead and zinc mine.
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PhysicsWeb - Quasicrystals Clinch Wolf Prize Quasicrystals clinch wolf prize 19 January 1999. The 1999 wolf prizefor physics has been awarded to Dan Shechtman of the Technion http://physicsweb.org/article/news/3/1/8/1
Extractions: 19 January 1999 The 1999 Wolf Prize for physics has been awarded to Dan Shechtman of the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, for his experimental discovery of quasicrystals in 1982. The prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, is often considered the most important prize in physics after the Nobel prize. Quasicrystals are materials that do not have a periodic lattice structure but still display subtle long-range order, such as "five-fold" symmetry, that is not possible in regular crystals. They appear to be built from two different structures assembled in a non-repeating array. Five-fold symmetry was considered impossible in real materials until it was discovered by Shechtman at Johns Hopkins University in the US in the early 1980s. The discovery led to the exploration of an entirely new area of condensed matter physics. Shechtman discovered quasicrystal structure in aluminum transition metal alloys. However, it was not until 1984 that separate teams working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, and at the University of Pennsylvania, were able to confirm Shechtman's results. Potential applications of quasicrystalline materials include superconducting and ultrahard materials.
PhysicsWeb - Aharonov And Berry Share Wolf Prize The 1998 wolf prize has been awarded to Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael Berry for the discoveries that bear their names http://physicsweb.org/article/news/2/1/1
Extractions: 5 January 1998 The 1998 Wolf Prize has been awarded to Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael Berry for the discoveries that bear their names - the Aharonov- Bohm effect and the Berry phase. Both effects - subtle and unexpected consequences of quantum theory - have subsequently been observed in many different types of experiment. The official citation states that the awards are made "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". These fields include optics, nuclear physics, fluid physics, chemistry, molecular physics, string theory, gravitational physics, cosmology, solid-state physics, the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum computing. In 1959 Aharonov and the late David Bohm proposed a thought experiment in which a charged particle is directed towards a tube of magnetic flux. The particle is split quantum mechanically so that one component passes to one side, say the left, of the tube, while the other passes to the right. Although the magnetic field is zero outside the tube, the vector potential associated with the field is not zero. This led Aharonov and Bohm to predict that the two components of the electron would acquire different phases due to their interaction with the vector potential - even though the field itself was zero - and that the difference between these phases could be detected via interference. The effect was soon observed in experiments.
Arnold And Shelah Will Share 2001 Wolf Prize Arnold and Shelah Will Share 2001 wolf prize. Saharon Shelah, VladimirI. Arnold. The Wolf Foundation has announced that Vladimir I http://www.maa.org/news/wolfprize01.html
Capecchi: University Of Utah News Release: January 24, 2003 What's New at the U, U Geneticist Capecchi Wins wolf prize, PezcollerAACRAward for Research in Gene Targeting and Knockout Technology. http://www.utah.edu/news/releases/03/jan/capecchi.html
Extractions: In May Capecchi, distinguished professor of human genetics and biology, co-chair of the University of Utah Department of Human Genetics, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will return to Trento under happier circumstances. He will receive a cash prize for winning the 2003 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) International Award for Cancer Research. But his travels will not stop in Italy. After receiving the award in Trento, Capecchi will go to Israel to accept the 2002/03 Wolf Prize in Medicine-Israel's top honor in medical research. He'll share the Wolf Prize with two other distinguished researchersOliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina and Ralph R. Brinster of the University of Pennsylvania. Capecchi and Smithies, working independently, developed techniques for targeted gene mutation in mammals, enabling researchers to create strains of mice with mutations in virtually any gene. Brinster developed a way to modify genes in mice embryo by injecting the eggs with RNA.
Extractions: Mathematicians share Wolf Prize November 20, 1995. The Wolf Foundation of Israel today announced the award of the Wolf Prize jointly to two mathematicians associated with the Institute for Advanced Study. Robert Langlands and Andrew J. Wiles will share the $100,000 prize in mathematics for their ground-breaking research in number theory. The award will be presented to them in Jerusalem in March by Ezar Wiezman, President of Israel. Langlands, 59, has been a member of the permanent Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Mathematics since 1972. Wiles, 42, has been a professor at neighboring Princeton University since 1984. He is currently a visiting Member at the Institute for Advanced Study and also was an Institute Member in 1981-82 and 1991-92. More than twenty years ago Langlands defined a series of conjectures in number theory, the Langlands Program, which unified and generalized certain results in number theory and became the basis for new efforts in what is one of the most fundamental areas of classical mathematics. This new work provided the foundation on which Wiles was able to build his famous solution to a long-standing mathematics problem, Fermat's Last Theorem. The Wolf prizes have been given annually since 1978 for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, the arts, and mathematics. The Wolf Foundation was established by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born diplomat and philanthropist.
Wolf Prize 2000 US, Japanese physicists to share wolf prize By Judy SiegelItzkovich. (January19) The wolf prize for physics will be shared this year by Prof. http://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/News_koshiba_wolf.html
Extractions: (January 19) The Wolf Prize for physics will be shared this year by Prof. Raymond Davis Jr., 85, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba, 73, of the University of Tokyo. The $100,000 prizes will be presented at the Knesset on May 21. "Their observations of the elusive neutrinos of astrophysical origin have opened a new window of opportunity for the study of astronomical objects, such as the sun and exploding stars, and the study of fundamental properties of matter," the Wolf jury stated. Davis, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, has been associated with the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York since 1946. "He developed, through persistent and sustained efforts, the first large-scale radiochemical neutrino detectors and obtained the first measurements of the flu of neutrinos from the sun." These measurements were shown to provide a very stringent test for theories of the solar interior.
Wolf Prize Shared By Texas A&M, Missouri Researchers associate vice chancellor of agriculture and life sciences for the Texas A M UniversitySystem, has been awarded the prestigious wolf prize in Agriculture. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-01/tau--wps011003.php
Extractions: ka-phillips@tamu.edu Bazer and Roberts independently identified an array of proteins and mechanisms that regulate embryo development, fetal growth and immune competence. The uterine protein, uteroferrin, identified by Bazer first in animals ultimately may be useful in treating diseases such as leukemia and osteoporosis in humans, according to the Wolf Prize jury. The award will be formally presented by Israeli President Moshe Katsav in Jerusalem May 11. The Wolf Prize is given through a foundation established by the late Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist. Wolf was Fidel Castro's ambassador to Israel where he died in 1981. The Wolf Prize is given annually in rotation among five areas: agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics. "Both scientists exemplify how devotion to basic research in agriculture can lead to practical outcomes that impact both animal production and human health and well-being," the jury noted. Bazer and Roberts were named for their discoveries of "interferontau and other pregnancy- associated proteins which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to establish and maintain pregnancy." The two collaborated on the research for 16 years while at the University of Florida.
Extractions: DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY Raymond Davis Jr., whose career as a chemist spans 52 years at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will share the 2000 Wolf Prize in Physics with Masatoshi Koshiba, University of Tokyo, Japan. The Wolf Foundation has recognized the scientists "for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, which created the emerging field of neutrino astronomy." The $100,000 prize, to be shared by the two scientists, will be conferred by the President of Israel, Ezer Weizman, at a special ceremony in Jerusalem on May 21. Davis was notified that he won the Wolf Prize while he was in Russia to receive the 1999 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize. Issued by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the $1,000 Pontecorvo Prize was awarded to Davis "for the outstanding achievement in development of the chlorine-argon method for detection of solar neutrinos." This method was invented by Pontecorvo and Davis further developed it. "I have been interested in studying neutrinos since 1948, when I first read about them in a review article by H.R. Crane, a physicist at the University of Michigan," Davis said. "Back then, it was a brand new field of study. It has captivated me for more than half a century."
