Prix Wolf 1993 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   John E. Casida

   Biologie

   for pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects.

2. Chimie

   Ahmed H. Zewail

   Chimie

   for using ultrafast lasers in femtosecond time resolved measurements of the evolution of chemical reactions – thus obtaining the first direct observation of bond breakage in a molecule.

3. Mathématiques

   Jacques Tits

   Mathématiques

   for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.

4. Mathématiques

   Mikhail Gromov

   Mathématiques

   for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.

5. Physique

   Benoit Mandelbrot

   Physique

   by recognizing the widespread occurrence of fractals and developing mathematical tools for describing them, he has changed our view of nature.