ウルフ賞 1989: 勝者

受賞者

1. 農業

   Michael Elliott, Peter M. Biggs

   生物学

   for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection.

2. 化学

   Alan R. Battersby, Duilio Arigoni

   化学

   for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.

3. 数学

   Alberto Calderón

   数学

   for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to and important problems in partial differential equations.

4. 数学

   John Milnor

   数学

   for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.

5. 医学

   Edward B. Lewis

   生物学

   for his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.

6. 医学

   John B. Gurdon

   生物学

   for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.