Premio Wolf 1989: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Michael Elliott, Peter M. Biggs

   Biología

   for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection.

2. Química

   Alan R. Battersby, Duilio Arigoni

   Química

   for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.

3. Matemáticas

   Alberto Calderón

   Matemáticas

   for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to and important problems in partial differential equations.

4. Matemáticas

   John Milnor

   Matemáticas

   for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.

5. Medicina

   Edward B. Lewis

   Biología

   for his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.

6. Medicina

   John B. Gurdon

   Biología

   for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.