Premio Wolf 1995/1996: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Frank J. Stevenson, Morris Schnitzer

   Biología

   for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter and its application to agriculture.

2. Química

   Gilbert Stork, Samuel J. Danishefsky

   Química

   for designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.

3. Matemáticas

   Andrew Wiles

   Matemáticas

   for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on undamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's last theorem.

4. Matemáticas

   Robert Langlands

   Matemáticas

   for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.

5. Medicina

   Stanley B. Prusiner

   Biología

   for discovering prions, new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structute.