Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1982: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Wendell L. Roelofs
for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control.
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Chemistry
George C. Pimentel
for development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers.
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Chemistry
John C. Polanyi
for his studies of chemical reactions in unprecedented detail through development of the infrared chemiluminescence technique, and for envisaging the principles underlying the chemical laser.
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Mathematics
Hassler Whitney
for his fundamental work in algebraic topology, differential geometry and differential topology.
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Mathematics
Mark Krein
for his fundamental contributions to functional analysis and its applications.
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Medicine
James W. Black
for developing agents which block beta adrenergic and histamine receptors.
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Medicine
Jean-Pierre Changeux
for the isolation, purification and characterization of the acetylcholine receptor.
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Medicine
Solomon H. Snyder
for the development of the ways to label neurotransmitter receptors, which provide tools to describe their properties.
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Physics
Leon M. Lederman, Martin L. Perl
for their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation quarks and leptons.