Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1980: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Karl Maramorosch
for his pioneering and wide-ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants.
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Chemistry
Henry Eyring
for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes.
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Mathematics
Andrey Kolmogorov
for deep and original discoveries in Fourier analysis, probability theory, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
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Mathematics
Henri Cartan
for pioneering work in algebraic topology, complex variables homological algebra and inspired leadership of a generation of mathematicians.
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Medicine
César Milstein, James L. Gowans, Leo Sachs
for their contributions to knowledge of the function and disfunction of the body cells through their studies on the immunological role of the lymphocytes, the development of specific antibodies and the elucidation of mechanisms governing the control and differentiation of normal and cancer cells.
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Physics
Kenneth G. Wilson, Leo P. Kadanoff, Michael E. Fisher
for path breaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at transitions between the different thermodynamic phases of matter.