Premio Wolf 1981: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Glenn W. Salisbury

   Biología

   for his outstanding achievements in basic-and-applied research on artificial insemination.

2. Agricultura

   Henry A. Lardy

   Biología

   for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice.

3. Agricultura

   John O. Almquist

   Biología

   for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement.

4. Química

   Joseph Chatt

   Química

   for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.

5. Matemáticas

   Lars Ahlfors

   Matemáticas

   for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.

6. Matemáticas

   Oscar Zariski

   Matemáticas

   Creator of the modern approach to Algebraic geometry, by its fusion, with Commutative algebra.

7. Medicina

   Barbara McClintock

   Biología

   for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behavior and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.

8. Medicina

   Stanley N. Cohen

   Biología

   for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. Coli by the recombinant DNA method.

9. Física

   Freeman Dyson, Gerardus 't Hooft, Victor Weisskopf

   Física

   for their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of, fields.