Prix Wolf 1981 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Glenn W. Salisbury

   Biologie

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

2. Agriculture

   Henry A. Lardy

   Biologie

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

3. Agriculture

   John O. Almquist

   Biologie

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

4. Chimie

   Joseph Chatt

   Chimie

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

5. Mathématiques

   Lars Ahlfors

   Mathématiques

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

6. Mathématiques

   Oscar Zariski

   Mathématiques

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

7. Médecine

   Barbara McClintock

   Biologie

   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. Médecine

   Stanley N. Cohen

   Biologie

   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. Physique

   Freeman Dyson, Gerardus 't Hooft, Victor Weisskopf

   Physique

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