Prix Wolf 2004 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Steven D. Tanksley, Yuan Longping

   Biologie

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

2. Chimie

   Harry B. Gray

   Chimie

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

3. Médecine

   Robert A. Weinberg

   Biologie

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

4. Médecine

   Roger Y. Tsien

   Biologie

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

5. Physique

   François Englert, Peter W. Higgs, Robert Brout

   Physique

   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.