NIH Record--3/04/2003--NICHD Grantees Receive Wolf Prize Roberts and Bazer are sharing the wolf prize for their work in The wolf prizeis given through a foundation established by the late Dr. Ricardo Wolf, http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/03_04_2003/story07.htm
Extractions: Front Page Previous Story Next Story NICHD Grantees Receive Wolf Prize By Marianne Glass Duffy Three grantees of NICHD's Reproductive Sciences Branch have received the Wolf Prize, an award presented to outstanding living scientists and artists. Dr. Ralph L. Brinster, professor of reproductive physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, received the Wolf Prize in Medicine for his development of techniques to maintain mouse and other mammalian eggs in vitro . He shares the prize with researchers Dr. Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina and Dr. Mario R. Capecchi of the University of Utah (both of whom are long-time NIH grantees, who shared the 2001 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; Smithies has been supported by NIGMS since 1973 and also receives funds from NHLBI while Capecchi has been funded by NIGMS since 1969, in addition to his NICHD grants). Both Roberts and Brinster are recipients of the NICHD Merit Award for Excellence in Research Training.
China S Father Of Hybrid Rice Awarded Wolf Prize China s Father of Hybrid Rice , Yuan Longping, was awarded wolf prize inAgriculture in Jerusalem , on Sunday. Moshe Katsav, president of the State of http://www.china.org.cn/english/international/94997.htm
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HSC News Details INAUGURAL wolf prize AWARDED TO PHARMACY PH.D. GRADUATE (05/16/2001). The Universityof Utah College of Pharmacy convocation was a day of double honors for http://uuhsc.utah.edu/pubaffairs/news_detail.cfm?ID=18571
J. - Chemist, Shoah Survivor Nets Wolf Prize 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 http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7905/edition_i
Extractions: 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.
J. - Stanford Professor Wins Israel's Wolf Prize In Math The wolf prize is of special meaning to Keller because all the previous recipientsare outstanding mathematicians, he said. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5102/edition_i
Extractions: Bulletin Staff Keller, 73, shares the honor and $100,000 award with Yakov Sinai, a professor at both Princeton University and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in Moscow. Israel's President Ezer Weizman will award the prizes in April in Israel. Established in 1961 by the late Dr. Ricardo Wolf "to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind," the Wolf Prize is often awarded for a specific achievement. Keller's award marks a lifetime of contributions to math and science. His work is based on sound waves, radio waves, earthquake waves, radar and sonar. The physical laws that govern the movement of each of these follow mathematical formulas. "I had to make up methods to solve a variety of problems differential equations which can be applied to many different questions," Keller said. Born in New Jersey, Keller received a B.A. and M.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University. Since 1978 he has been a professor of mathematics and mechanical engineering at Stanford. Among his many awards are the National Medal of Science and the von Karman Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Springer - Reviewers & Journalists Gregory Margulis and Sergei Novikov Awarded wolf prize for Mathematics The wolf prize is awarded annually to scientists from the disciplines of http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-108-2-147666-0,00.html
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Extractions: China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Yuan Longping, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent.
Extractions: China's "Father of Hybrid Rice" awarded Wolf Prize China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Yuan Longping, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent. To help increase world food supply, he has shared his knowledge, techniques, and breeding materials with scientists worldwide," according to the Wolf Prize Jury in this field.
Extractions: This remarkable document expressed the commitment: "The state of Israel will devote itself to the development of this country for the benefit of all its people; It will be founded on the principles of freedom, justice and peace, guided by the visions of the prophets of Israel; It will grant full equal, social and political rights to all its citizens regardless of differences of religious faith, race or sex; It will ensure freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture."
Salk Institute For Biological Studies Salk Scientist who discovered cancer switch awarded the wolf prize in Medicine Five annual wolf prizes have been awarded since 1978, to outstanding http://www.salk.edu/news/releases/details.php?id=113
Springer Science+Business Media : Science - News From Our Publishers Heidelberg, 21 April 2005. wolf prize for Excellence for SpringerAuthors.Gregory Margulis and Sergei Novikov Awarded wolf prize for Mathematics http://www.springer-sbm.de/index.php?id=296&backPID=296&L=0&tx_tnc_news=1741
IRRI - International Rice Research Institute Dr. Khush was unanimously chosen by the wolf prize Jury for his In additionto the wolf prize for Agriculture, the President of his home country, India, http://www.irri.org/media/press/press.asp?id=38
Bundle Research Group The 1999 wolf prize in Chemistry will be conferred on Raymond U. Lemieux, The Israelbased wolf prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists, http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/~glyco/news/wolfprize.htm
Extractions: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry will be conferred on Raymond U. Lemieux, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada by the president of the State of Israel, Mr. Ezer Weizman, in a special ceremony, at the Knesset (parliament) on Sunday, May 2 nd The Prize Committee unanimously decided that the 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry would be awarded to Raymond U. Lemieux, 78, Professor Emeritus, University of 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." The committee cited that:- Raymond U. Lemieux's seminal contributions to the chemistry of carbohydrates, stretching over close to half a century, have led to a transformation of the discipline; the study of which is now universally recognized as being of immense importance in chemistry and biology. Lemieux has had an exceptional ability to focus quickly and clearly on the basic questions, in an area whose critical biological significance he addressed before others, and to produce original conceptual frameworks and experimental tools to deal with them. This ability and his many achievements have provided the pillars upon which present-day oligosaccharide chemistry and biochemistry now rest.
Wolf Prize 2000 Translate this page US, Japanese physicists to share wolf prize By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich. (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.
Ray Davis Brookhaven Lab Chemist Shares the 2000 wolf prize in Physics Davis was notifiedthat he won the wolf prize while he was in Russia to receive the 1999 http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2000/bnlpr020400.html
Extractions: With University of Tokyo Scientist For Research on Neutrinos 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."
UCLA Distinguished Lecturers April 2001; Bott Wins Israel s Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics, Bott and Serre Share 2000 wolf prize, (PDF file) Notices of the AMS, May 2000 http://www.math.ucla.edu/dls/2002/bott.html
Extractions: Abstract : The first four lectures will deal with the period 1949 to 1959 and this hopefully will serve as an introduction to both the Morse theory and the topology of Lie groups. The goal of these lectures will be the Morse theoretic proof of the periodicity theorem for the homotopy of the classical groups. The second half of the course will deal with the equivariant Morse Theory and in particular its application to the cohomology of the space of flat bundles over Riemann surfaces, as well as some of the relations of these topics to Physics. Professor Bott will present these subjects in their historical and personal context.
Bott Wins Israel's Wolf Foundation Prize In Mathematics He shares the prize with JeanPierre Serre of the College de France. According tothe wolf Foundation prize committee, Bott was selected for his many http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/03.09/bott.html
Extractions: Raoul Bott According to the Wolf Foundation prize committee, Bott was selected for "his many fundamental contributions in topology and differential geometry and their application to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics." As a leading figure in the field of differential geometry, Bott’s recent work has focused on the application of geometry to mathematical physics and vice versa, and particularly to the theory of strings. His first major contribution was the application of Morse theory to the topology of Lie groups, which led to the famous "periodicity theorems." He was a major contributor to the development of K-theory and also worked on Yang-Mills theory, moduli spaces of vector bundles, and elliptic genera. "Through his publications, his students, and his personal qualities, he has significantly influenced the mathematics of our times," the prize jury said in a statement announcing the winners. According to the Wolf Foundation, the Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to outstanding scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples, irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex or political view."
