Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1981: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Glenn W. Salisbury
for his outstanding achievements in basic-and-applied research on artificial insemination.
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Agriculture
Henry A. Lardy
for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice.
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Agriculture
John O. Almquist
for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement.
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Chemistry
Joseph Chatt
for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.
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Mathematics
Lars Ahlfors
for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.
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Mathematics
Oscar Zariski
Creator of the modern approach to Algebraic geometry, by its fusion, with Commutative algebra.
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Medicine
Barbara McClintock
for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behavior and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.
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Medicine
Stanley N. Cohen
for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. Coli by the recombinant DNA method.
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Physics
Freeman Dyson, Gerardus 't Hooft, Victor Weisskopf
for their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of, fields.