Prix Wolf 2010 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   David Baulcombe

   Biologie

   for pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants is of profound importance, not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine.

2. Mathématiques

   Dennis Sullivan

   Mathématiques

   for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.

3. Mathématiques

   Shing-Tung Yau

   Mathématiques

   for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.

4. Médecine

   Axel Ullrich

   Biologie

   for his pioneering contributions to the discovery and characterization of human proto-onco-genes and the development of novel cancer therapies.

5. Physique

   Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, John F. Clauser

   Physique

   for their fundamental conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, specifically an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of Bell's inequalities or extensions there of using entangled quantum states.