Prix Wolf 2013 : lauréats

Destinataires

1. Agriculture

   Jared Diamond

   Biologie

   for pioneering theories of crop domestication, the rise of agriculture and its influences on the development and demise of human societies, as well as its impact on the ecology of the environment.

2. Agriculture

   Joachim Messing

   Biologie

   for innovations in recombinant DNA cloning that revolutionized agriculture and deciphering the genetic codes of crop plants.

3. Chimie

   Robert S. Langer

   Chimie

   for innovations in polymer chemistry that have had profound impact on medicine, particularly in the areas of drug delivery and tissue engineering.

4. Mathématiques

   George D. Mostow

   Mathématiques

   for fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.

5. Mathématiques

   Michael Artin

   Mathématiques

   for fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both commutative and non-commutative.

6. Physique

   Juan Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller

   Physique

   for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases.