Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1983/1984: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Cornelis T. de Wit, Don Kirkham
for their innovative contributions to the quantitative understanding of soil-water and other environmental interactions influencing crop growth and yield.
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Chemistry
Harden M. McConnell
for his studies of the electronic structure of molecules through paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and for the introduction and biological applications of spin label techniques.
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Chemistry
Herbert S. Gutowsky
for his pioneering work in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.
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Chemistry
John S. Waugh
for his fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solids.
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Mathematics
Paul Erdős
for his numerous contributions to number theory, combinatorics, probability, set theory, and mathematical analysis, and for personally stimulating mathematicians the world over.
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Mathematics
Shiing-Shen Chern
for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.