Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 1987: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Theodor O. Diener

    Biology

    for his discovery and pioneering fundamental research on viroids, the smallest subviral pathogens, and his applied work on viroid detection in crops.

  2. Chemistry

    David C. Phillips, David M. Blow

    Chemistry

    for their contributions to protein X-ray crystallography and to the elucidation of structures of enzymes and their mechanisms of action.

  3. Mathematics

    Kiyoshi Itō

    Math

    for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.

  4. Mathematics

    Peter Lax

    Math

    for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.

  5. Medicine

    Meir Wilchek, Pedro Cuatrecasas

    Biology

    for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences.

  6. Physics

    Bruno B. Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi

    Physics

    for the discovery of extra-solar X-ray sources and the elucidation of their physical processes.

  7. Physics

    Herbert Friedman

    Physics

    for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays.