Prix Wolf 1995/1996 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Frank J. Stevenson, Morris Schnitzer

   Biologie

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

2. Chimie

   Gilbert Stork, Samuel J. Danishefsky

   Chimie

   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. Mathématiques

   Andrew Wiles

   Mathématiques

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

4. Mathématiques

   Robert Langlands

   Mathématiques

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

5. Médecine

   Stanley B. Prusiner

   Biologie

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