Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1984/1985: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Robert H. Burris
for his pioneering fundamental research on the mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation and its application in crop production.
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Chemistry
Rudolph A. Marcus
for his contribution to chemical kinetics, especially the theories of unimolecular reactions and electron transfer reactions.
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Mathematics
Hans Lewy
for initiating many, now classic and essential, developments in partial differential equations.
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Mathematics
Kunihiko Kodaira
for his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.
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Medicine
Donald F. Steiner
for discoveries concerning the biosynthesis and processing of insulin which have had profound implications for basic biology and clinical medicine.