Wolf Prize: Winners by Year
Established by the Wolf Foundation in 1975 and first awarded in 1978 in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. Awarded annually, with the ceremony held in Jerusalem, Israel. Carries a prize of $100,000 per category, split among co-recipients.
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The last 30 award years. See every Wolf Prize winner in one list, or use the Categories above.
2025
- Brian J. Staskawicz Agriculture
- Jeffery L. Dangl Agriculture
- Jonathan D. G. Jones Agriculture
- Helmut F. Schwarz Chemistry
- Pamela J. Bjorkman Medicine
- Jainendra K. Jain Physics
- James P. Eisenstein Physics
- Mordehai Heiblum Physics
2024
- Elliot M. Meyerowitz Agriculture
- Joanne Chory Agriculture
- Venkatesan Sundaresan Agriculture
- Adi Shamir Mathematics
- Noga Alon Mathematics
- Botond Roska Medicine
- José-Alain Sahel Medicine
- Martin Rees Physics
2023
- Martinus Theodore van Genuchten Agriculture
- Chuan He Chemistry
- Hiroaki Suga Chemistry
- Jeffery W. Kelly Chemistry
- Ingrid Daubechies Mathematics
- Daniel J. Drucker Medicine
2022
- Pamela C. Ronald Agriculture
- Benjamin F. Cravatt Chemistry
- Bonnie L. Bassler Chemistry
- Carolyn R. Bertozzi Chemistry
- George Lusztig Mathematics
- Anne L’Huillier Physics
- Ferenc Krausz Physics
- Paul Corkum Physics
2021
- Leslie Leiserowitz Chemistry
- Meir Lahav Chemistry
- Adrian Krainer Medicine
- Joan A. Steitz Medicine
- Lynne E. Maquat Medicine
- Giorgio Parisi Physics
2020
- Caroline Dean Agriculture
- Simon Donaldson Mathematics
- Yakov Eliashberg Mathematics
- Emmanuelle Charpentier Medicine
- Jennifer A. Doudna Medicine
- Allan H. MacDonald Physics
- Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Physics
- Rafi Bistritzer Physics
2019
- David Zilberman Agriculture
- John F. Hartwig Chemistry
- Stephen L. Buchwald Chemistry
- Gregory Lawler Mathematics
- Jean-Francois Le Gall Mathematics
- Jeffrey M. Friedman Medicine
2018
- Gene E. Robinson Agriculture
- Makoto Fujita Chemistry
- Omar M. Yaghi Chemistry
- Alexander Beilinson Mathematics
- Vladimir Drinfeld Mathematics
- Charles H. Bennett Physics
- Gilles Brassard Physics
2017
- Robert G. Bergman Chemistry
- Charles Fefferman Mathematics
- Richard Schoen Mathematics
- James P. Allison Medicine
- Didier Queloz Physics
- Michel Mayor Physics
2016
- Trudy Mackay Agriculture
- Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou Chemistry
- Stuart Schreiber Chemistry
- C. Ronald Kahn Medicine
- Lewis C. Cantley Medicine
- Yoseph Imry Physics
2015
- Linda J. Saif Agriculture
- James G. Arthur Mathematics
- Jeffrey Ravetch Medicine
- John Kappler Medicine
- Philippa Marrack Medicine
- James D. Bjorken Physics
- Robert P. Kirshner Physics
2014
- Jorge Dubcovsky Agriculture
- Leif Andersson Agriculture
- Chi-Huey Wong Chemistry
- Peter Sarnak Mathematics
- Gary Ruvkun Medicine
- Nahum Sonenberg Medicine
- Victor Ambros Medicine
2013
- Jared Diamond Agriculture
- Joachim Messing Agriculture
- Robert S. Langer Chemistry
- George D. Mostow Mathematics
- Michael Artin Mathematics
- Juan Ignacio Cirac Physics
- Peter Zoller Physics
2012
- A. Paul Alivisatos Chemistry
- Charles M. Lieber Chemistry
- Luis Caffarelli Mathematics
- Michael Aschbacher Mathematics
- Ronald M. Evans Medicine
- Jacob Bekenstein Physics
2011
- Harris A. Lewin Agriculture
- R. James Cook Agriculture
- Ching W. Tang Chemistry
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Chemistry
- Stuart A. Rice Chemistry
- Rudolf Jaenisch Medicine
- Shinya Yamanaka Medicine
- Harald Rose Physics
- Knut Urban Physics
- Maximilian Haider Physics
2010
- David Baulcombe Agriculture
- Dennis Sullivan Mathematics
- Shing-Tung Yau Mathematics
- Axel Ullrich Medicine
- Alain Aspect Physics
- Anton Zeilinger Physics
- John F. Clauser Physics
2008/2009
- Aharon Razin Medicine
- Howard Cedar Medicine
2008
- James H. Tumlinson Agriculture
- John A. Pickett Agriculture
- W. Joe Lewis Agriculture
- Allen J. Bard Chemistry
- William E. Moerner Chemistry
- David Mumford Mathematics
- Phillip A. Griffiths Mathematics
- Pierre Deligne Mathematics
2006/2007
- Michel A. J. Georges Agriculture
- Ronald L. Phillips Agriculture
- Ada E. Yonath Chemistry
- George Feher Chemistry
- Hillel Furstenberg Mathematics
- Stephen Smale Mathematics
- Albert Fert Physics
- Peter Grünberg Physics
2005
- Richard N. Zare Chemistry
- Grigory Margulis Mathematics
- Sergei Novikov Mathematics
- Alexander Levitzki Medicine
- Tony Pawson Medicine
- Anthony R. Hunter Medicine
- Daniel Kleppner Physics
2004
- Steven D. Tanksley Agriculture
- Yuan Longping Agriculture
- Harry B. Gray Chemistry
- Robert A. Weinberg Medicine
- Roger Y. Tsien Medicine
- François Englert Physics
- Peter W. Higgs Physics
- Robert Brout Physics
2002/2003
- Fuller W. Bazer Agriculture
- R. Michael Roberts Agriculture
- John Tate Mathematics
- Mikio Sato Mathematics
- Mario R. Capecchi Medicine
- Oliver Smithies Medicine
- Ralph L. Brinster Medicine
- Anthony J. Leggett Physics
- Bertrand Halperin Physics
2001
- James E. Womack Agriculture
- Roger N. Beachy Agriculture
- Henri B. Kagan Chemistry
- K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry
- Ryōji Noyori Chemistry
- Saharon Shelah Mathematics
- Vladimir Arnold Mathematics
- Alexander Varshavsky Medicine
- Avram Hershko Medicine
2000
- Gurdev Khush Agriculture
- Frank Albert Cotton Chemistry
- Jean-Pierre Serre Mathematics
- Raoul Bott Mathematics
- Masatoshi Koshiba Physics
- Raymond Davis Jr. Physics
1999
- Raymond U. Lemieux Chemistry
- Elias M. Stein Mathematics
- László Lovász Mathematics
- Eric R. Kandel Medicine
- Dan Shechtman Physics
1998
- Baldur R. Stefansson Agriculture
- Ilan Chet Agriculture
- Gabor A. Somorjai Chemistry
- Gerhard Ertl Chemistry
- Michael Sela Medicine
- Ruth Arnon Medicine
- Michael V. Berry Physics
- Yakir Aharonov Physics
1997
- Mary F. Lyon Medicine
1996/1997
- Neal L. First Agriculture
- Joseph B. Keller Mathematics
- Yakov Sinai Mathematics
- John A. Wheeler Physics
1995/1996
- Frank J. Stevenson Agriculture
- Morris Schnitzer Agriculture
- Gilbert Stork Chemistry
- Samuel J. Danishefsky Chemistry
- Andrew Wiles Mathematics
- Robert Langlands Mathematics
- Stanley B. Prusiner Medicine
1994/1995
- Carl B. Huffaker Agriculture
- Perry Adkisson Agriculture
- Peter Schultz Chemistry
- Richard Lerner Chemistry
- Jürgen Moser Mathematics
- Michael Berridge Medicine
- Yasutomi Nishizuka Medicine
- Vitaly L. Ginzburg Physics
- Yoichiro Nambu Physics
1993
- John E. Casida Agriculture
- Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry
- Jacques Tits Mathematics
- Mikhail Gromov Mathematics
- Benoit Mandelbrot Physics