Premio Wolf 2004: Ganadores

Destinatarios

1. Agricultura

   Steven D. Tanksley, Yuan Longping

   Biología

   for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple.

2. Química

   Harry B. Gray

   Química

   for pioneering work in bio-inorganic chemistry, unravelling novel principles of structure and long-range electron transfer in proteins.

3. Medicina

   Robert A. Weinberg

   Biología

   for his discovery that cancer cells including human tumor cells, carry somatically mutated genes-oncogenes that operate to drive their malignant proliferation.

4. Medicina

   Roger Y. Tsien

   Biología

   for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction.

5. Física

   François Englert, Peter W. Higgs, Robert Brout

   Física

   for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles.