Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1979: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Jay L. Lush
for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the application of genetics to livestock improvement.
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Agriculture
Kenneth Blaxter
for his fundamental contributions to the science and practice of ruminant nutrition and livestock production.
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Chemistry
Herman Mark
for his contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of natural and synthetic polymers.
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Mathematics
André Weil
for his inspired introduction of algebro-geometry to the theory of numbers.
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Mathematics
Jean Leray
for pioneering work on the development and application of topological methods to the study of differential equations.
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Medicine
Arvid Carlsson
for his work which established the role of dopamine as a neurotransmitter.
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Medicine
Oleh Hornykiewicz
for opening a new approach in the control of Parkinson's disease by L-Dopa.
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Medicine
Roger Wolcott Sperry
for his studies on the functional differentiation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
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Physics
George Uhlenbeck
for his discovery, jointly with the late Samuel A.Goudsmit, of the electron spin.
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Physics
Giuseppe Occhialini
for his contributions to the discovery of electron pair production and of the charged pion.