Premio Wolf 1980: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Karl Maramorosch

   Biología

   for his pioneering and wide-ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants.

2. Química

   Henry Eyring

   Química

   for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes.

3. Matemáticas

   Andrey Kolmogorov

   Matemáticas

   for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

4. Matemáticas

   Henri Cartan

   Matemáticas

   for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.

5. Medicina

   César Milstein, James L. Gowans, Leo Sachs

   Biología

   for their contributions to knowledge of the function and disfunction of the body cells through their studies on the immunological role of the lymphocytes, the development of specific antibodies and the elucidation of mechanisms governing the control and differentiation of normal and cancer cells.

6. Física

   Kenneth G. Wilson, Leo P. Kadanoff, Michael E. Fisher

   Física

   for path breaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at transitions between the different thermodynamic phases of matter.