WOLF PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS wolf prize IN MATHEMATICS Volume 1 edited by SS Chern (University of California,Berkeley) F Hirzebruch (Universität Bonn MaxPlanck-Institut für http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/mathematics/4149.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 L Ahlfors, H Cartan, L Carleson, S S Chern, E de Giorgi, S Eilenberg, P Erdös, F Hirzebruch, L Hörmander, K Itô, J B Keller, K Kodaira, R Langlands and J Leray. This is the first time that lectures by some 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.
Mathematics Newsletter Vol 1 Dec 1999 - Features wolf prize IN MATHEMATICS (Volume 1). This is the first time that lecturesby some wolf prize winners have been published together. http://www.wspc.com.sg/newsletters/math/current/home.html
Extractions: This invaluable book features biblio-graphies, important papers, and speeches (for example at international congresses) of Wolf Prize winners, including H Cartan, S S Chern, S Eilenberg, P Erds, F Hirzebruch, L Hrmander, J B Keller, K Kodaira, M G Krein, R Langlands, Hans Lewy, Jrgen K. Moser, IIya Piatetski-Shapiro, C L Siegel, and Y Sinai. This is the first time that lectures by some Wolf Prize winners have been published together. Since the fields of the Wolf laureates cover a wide spectrum, much of the mathematics of the twentieth century comes to life in this book. Purchase the book online THE WOLF FOUNDATION 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. Since 1978, the Wolf Prizes have been awarded yearly by the Wolf Foundation to outstanding living scientists and artists, including mathematicians. So far, 37 mathematicians have been awarded this prize. The Wolf Prize often goes to mathematicians who are in their sixties or older: that is to say the Prize honors the achievements of a lifetime.
HEBREW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WINS WOLF PRIZE HEBREW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WINS wolf prize. Jerusalem, January He waschosen for the wolf prize in Mathematics along with Prof. Vladimir I http://www.afhu.org/news/01afhupr/011701.htm
$100,000 Award: Chemists Stork, Danishefsky Win Wolf Prize $100,000 Award Chemists Stork, Danishefsky Win wolf prize. Announcementof the wolf prize in chemistry had been scheduled for Nov. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss10/record2110.14.html
Extractions: Samuel Danishefsky and Gilbert Stork, Columbia scientists who have spent their careers replicating nature's chemistry for human use, have won the 1995-96 Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry, it was announced Monday in Israel. Danishefsky was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral researcher with Stork at Columbia from 1961 to 1963, and since 1993 has been professor of chemistry at Columbia and has held the Eugene W. Kettering Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. Stork is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and has been involved in research at Columbia for more than 40 years. The Israel-based Wolf Foundation said in its announcement that both Columbia scientists will be honored for "designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccarides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds." The two, who are friends and colleagues, will share a prize of $100,000. "It is a great and, I hope, deserved honor to share the Wolf Prize with my mentor, Gilbert Stork," Danishefsky said from Jerusalem.
Columbia University Record Kandel Wins wolf prize. The wolf prize, Israel's most prestigious award, is presentedeach year by the president of Israel for achievements in science and art. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/newrec/2412/tmpl/story.1.html
Extractions: Vol. 24., No. 12 January 21, 1999 BY BOB NELSON University Professor Eric R. Kandel, the biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has devoted four decades to discovering what molecular changes take place in cells when an organism learns a new behavior, has been named to receive the 1999 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine. The Wolf Prize, Israel's most prestigious award, is presented each year by the president of Israel for achievements in science and art. In the prize's 20-year existence, 17 recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. "I'm deeply honored," said Kandel, 69, who will accept the $100,000 award in a ceremony May 2 at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. "I have always felt very privileged to be at Columbia, with its outstanding neurobiology community. In a larger sense, I see this recognition as also reflecting on the intellectual life of that neurobiology community as a whole." What happens in the brain when a memory is formed or when learning takes place has been a major question for both neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. Until the late 1950s, investigations of these questions were dominated by behavioral approaches that tended to treat the brain as a black box, without any understanding of what took place within it.
Smithies Chosen For Wolf Prize Smithies Chosen for wolf prize Oliver Smithies, excellence professor of pathologyand laboratory medicine in Carolina's medical school, has been selected to http://alumni.unc.edu/car/weekly/story.asp?sid=327
Extractions: After receiving the award in Trento, Capecchi, who is co-chair of the University of Utah Department of Human Genetics, and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will go to Israel to accept the 2002/03 Wolf Prize in Medicine. He will share Israel's top honor in medical research with two other distinguished researchers -Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina and Ralph R. Brinster of the University of Pennsylvania.
1999 Wolf Prize In Physics Announced Index 1999 wolf prize in Physics announced. Subject 1999 January 19,1999 1999 wolf prize in Physics announced. Jerusalem The Wolf http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/1999-01/msg0014170.html
Extractions: Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next ... Thread Index http://www.aquanet.co.il/wolf/ Prev by Date: Re: Length of wavetrain of a single photon Next by Date: Nature does her "calculations" in spacetime, why not us? Prev by thread: Re: To jupiter via venus? How works? Next by thread: Nature does her "calculations" in spacetime, why not us? Index(es): Date Thread
2003 Wolf Prizes Announced and Anthony J. Leggett, University of Illinois, will share Physics Prize for researchon condensed forms of matter Jerusalem The 2002/3 wolf prize in Physics http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2003-01/msg0047738.html
Extractions: Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next ... Thread Index Subject : 2003 Wolf Prizes announced From Date : Fri, 17 Jan 2003 21:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Approved : ebunn@richmond.edu (sci.physics.research moderator) Message-ID b08jb0$6rj$3@news2.netvision.net.il Newsgroups : sci.physics.research Organization : NetVision InterNetNews site Sender : ebunn@lfa222122.richmond.edu Prev by Date: The Standard Model Symmetry Group Is S(U(2)xU(3)) Next by Date: Re: Speed of Gravity Revealed Prev by thread: Re: expansion and the de Sitter horizon Next by thread: Why Are There Eight Gluons? (Or: Unexpected Symmetries) Index(es): Date Thread
ICDA News: Wolf Prize NOTED COMPOSER PIERRE BOULEZ OF FRANCE AND CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTIOF ITALY WILL SHARE THE wolf prize IN MUSIC FOR THE YEAR 2000. http://www.icda.org/news/wolf.html
Extractions: NOTED COMPOSER PIERRE BOULEZ OF FRANCE AND CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI OF ITALY WILL SHARE THE WOLF PRIZE IN MUSIC FOR THE YEAR 2000 Jerusalem Two outstanding figures in the world of music, Pierre Boulez and Riccardo Muti, will share the $100,000 Wolf Prize in the Arts for 2000, it was announced today. Maestro Pierre Boulez, 74, is cited as "one of the most creative personalities in the realm of music." The Wolf Prize jury stated that "he is simultaneously a great composer, an outstanding conductor, a philosopher of music and a distinguished teacher. Considered a prominent contemporary figure combining the creator and the investigator, he has gone a long way in the investigation of the acoustical limits of sound, as well as its influence on people." Boulez is the creator and director of the IRCAM (Institute de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris where investigators from the world over are intent on deciphering the codes that link music to human beings. Maestro Riccardo Muti, 58, is "one of the most outstanding conductors of our time" it was said. "His musical charisma brings excitement to concert halls and opera houses. His creative activities have found expression beyond the boundaries of the domain of music. Muti constitutes one of the most important links in the chain of development of the image of the conductor, whose interpretation of the masterpieces of symphonic music and opera enriches the contemporary world of music", it was stated.
ICDA News: Wolf Prize The wolf prize in Agriculture went to Professor Roger N. Beachy,56, from the Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri http://www.icda.org/news/wolf05_16.html
Extractions: May 16, 2001 The 2001 Wolf Prizes in Sciences and Arts awarded by the President of the State, Mr. Moshe Katsav, at a special ceremony, in Jerusalem. The Prize in Chemistry was shared by Professor Henri B. Kagan, 70, from University of Paris-South, France; Professor Ryoji Noyori, 62, from Nagoya University, Japan, and Professor K. Barry Sharpless, 60, from Scripps Research Institute, California, USA, for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing methods for the synthesis of chiral molecules. Their work provided the means for efficient industrial and laboratory preparations of important pharmaceutical products and fine chemicals needed for our daily life. The Prize in Mathematics was awarded to Professor Vladimir I. Arnold, 63, from the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia, and University of 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, and to Professor Saharon Shelah, 55, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics. The Prize in Medicine was shared by Avram Hershko, 63, from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Alexander Varshavsky, 54, from the California Institute of Technology, USA, for their discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation.
Chemist, Shoah Survivor Nets Wolf Prize (1-30-1998) Chemist, Shoah survivor nets wolf prize. LESLIE KATZ. The wolf prize, Israel's mostprestigious award, is given each year for achievements in science and art. http://www.jewishsf.com/bk980130/ebashoah.htm
Extractions: January 30, 1998 LESLIE KATZ Bulletin Staff A U.C. Berkeley professor who was saved from the Nazis by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg has been named a recipient of Israel's 1998 Wolf Foundation Prize in chemistry. The Wolf Prize, Israel's most prestigious award, is given each year for achievements in science and art. In the prize's 20-year existence, 17 recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. "I am absolutely delighted," said Gabor Somorjai, who will accept the prize in a Knesset ceremony in May. "It's a very great honor." Somorjai, 62, got wind of the news Tuesday morning when a former postdoctoral student now teaching in Israel called to congratulate him. "It was clear it was known in Israel and Europe before it was known in the U.S.," said the Hungarian-born professor, who got official word of the award by fax later on in the day. Somorjai shares his $100,000 award with Professor Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin. The pair has been cited for contributions to the field of surface science. A U.C. Berkeley professor since 1964, Samorjai studies inorganic surfaces such as iron and platinum and explores how certain catalysts can be used on those surfaces to generate useful reactions. For example, the professor has examined certain catalyst-surface combinations that help sustain clean air and water, and produce high-octane gasoline.
International Wolf Prize Shared By Texas A&M Researcher International wolf prize Shared By Texas A M Researcher. Fuller W.Bazer, associate vice chancellor of agriculture and life sciences http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/03/011003-5.html
Womack Honored For Wolf Prize Womack Honored For wolf prize. COLLEGE Texas A M President Ray M.Bowen said that the wolf prize goes beyond the laboratory. It http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/01/022701-3.html
THE JERUSALEM POST DAILY INTERNET EDITION wolf prize intellects shine at the Laromme. Highly prestigious and known around theworld, the wolf prize is often the precursor to a Nobel Prize. It was Prof. http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/06.Jul.1998/Features/Article-25.html
Extractions: ISRAEL TIME: (May 25) - Jerusalem's Laromme Hotel was so thick with geniuses recently that you could almost cut the IQs with a knife. It was the venue for a conference honoring 40 out of the 172 people from 18 countries who have won Wolf Prizes during the last 20 years. The late Ricardo (Richard) Wolf would undoubtedly have been thrilled had he been able to attend the unusual conference. Born in Germany in 1887, he later moved to Cuba, and was named by Fidel Castro in 1961 as that country's ambassador to Israel. A self-made millionaire industrialist, Wolf remained in his diplomatic post until 1973, when, in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, Castro cut off diplomatic relations with Israel. Wolf, a good Jew, decided to remain in Israel, and lived here until the end of his life. Since 1978, Wolf Prizes worth $100,000 have been awarded each year to scientists and artists for their contribution to mankind and friendship among nations. The prizes are awarded specifically in the fields of agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics and art (rotating with music, drawing, sculpture and architecture). The award has become identified as a purely Israeli prize, handed out amid pomp and ceremony in the Knesset's Chagall Hall by the president. The private Wolf Foundation also grants scholarships to students in institutions of higher learning. Highly prestigious and known around the world, the Wolf Prize is often the precursor to a Nobel Prize.
Yaledailynews.com - Wolf Prize Winner Talks Discrete Math Go back to article wolf prize winner talks discrete math PublishedThursday, February 25, 1999 wolf prize winner talks discrete math. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articlefunctions/Printerfriendly.asp?AID=943
Extractions: News By Ron Kaufman Ahmed H. Zewail, a chemical physics professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, has received the 1993 Wolf Prize in Chemistry from the Israel-based Wolf Foundation. Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation has been granting $100,000 prizes for individual achievements in the fields of agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. This year, the prizes will be presented on May 16 by Israeli President Chaim Herzog at the Knesset building in Jerusalem. Zewail is being honored for his contributions to the ultrafast study of chemical dynamics on femtosecond timescales (Kathryn Phillips, The Scientist , May 29, 1989, page 17). One femtosecond is equivalent to one thousandth-mil- lionth-millionth of a second. In femtochemistry, he says, "basically, you're photographing snapshots of the atoms and molecules in the intercourse of a chemical reaction in real time. This has to be done in femtoseconds using ultrafast, pulsating lasers and molecular beams." A summary of his work can be found in Science (A.H. Zewail, "Laser femtochemistry,"
Jewish Wolf Prize Winners In Mathematics JEWISH WINNERS OF THE wolf prize IN MATHEMATICS (43% of all recipients)Izrail Gelfand (1978); André Weil (1979); Oscar Zariski (1981 http://www.jinfo.org/Wolf_Mathematics.html
US, Japanese Physicists To Share Wolf Prize The wolf prize for physics will be shared this year by Prof. Raymond RETURNTO RESULTS. US, Japanese physicists to share wolf prize. Byline http://server-mac.pas.rochester.edu/yigal/news/jpkoshiba.html
Extractions: 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.
