Premio Wolf 1979: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Jay L. Lush

   Biología

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

2. Agricultura

   Kenneth Blaxter

   Biología

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

3. Química

   Herman Mark

   Química

   for his contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of natural and synthetic polymers.

4. Matemáticas

   André Weil

   Matemáticas

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

5. Matemáticas

   Jean Leray

   Matemáticas

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

6. Medicina

   Arvid Carlsson

   Biología

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

7. Medicina

   Oleh Hornykiewicz

   Biología

   for opening a new approach in the control of Parkinson's disease by L-Dopa.

8. Medicina

   Roger Wolcott Sperry

   Biología

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

9. Física

   George Uhlenbeck

   Física

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

10. Física

    Giuseppe Occhialini

    Física

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