Prix Wolf 1990 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Jozef Stefaan Schell

   Biologie

   For his pioneering work in genetic transformation of plants, thereby opening up new horizons in basic plant science and breeding.

2. Mathématiques

   Ennio De Giorgi

   Mathématiques

   for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

3. Mathématiques

   Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro

   Mathématiques

   for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.

4. Médecine

   Maclyn McCarty

   Biologie

   for his part in the demonstration that the transforming factor in bacteria is due to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the concomitant discovery that the genetic material is composed of DNA.

5. Physique

   David J. Thouless, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

   Physique

   for a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.