Premio Wolf 1982: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Wendell L. Roelofs

   Biología

   for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control.

2. Química

   George C. Pimentel

   Química

   for development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers.

3. Química

   John C. Polanyi

   Química

   for his studies of chemical reactions in unprecedented detail through development of the infrared chemiluminescence technique, and for envisaging the principles underlying the chemical laser.

4. Matemáticas

   Hassler Whitney

   Matemáticas

   for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.

5. Matemáticas

   Mark Krein

   Matemáticas

   for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.

6. Medicina

   James W. Black

   Biología

   for developing agents which block beta adrenergic and histamine receptors.

7. Medicina

   Jean-Pierre Changeux

   Biología

   for the isolation, purification and characterization of the acetylcholine receptor.

8. Medicina

   Solomon H. Snyder

   Biología

   for the development of the ways to label neurotransmitter receptors, which provide tools to describe their properties.

9. Física

   Leon M. Lederman, Martin L. Perl

   Física

   for their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation quarks and leptons.