Prix Wolf 2006/2007 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Michel A. J. Georges, Ronald L. Phillips

   Biologie

   for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences.

2. Chimie

   Ada E. Yonath, George Feher

   Chimie

   for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.

3. Mathématiques

   Hillel Furstenberg

   Mathématiques

   for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.

4. Mathématiques

   Stephen Smale

   Mathématiques

   for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics.

5. Physique

   Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg

   Physique

   for their independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information.