Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1987: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Theodor O. Diener
for his discovery and pioneering fundamental research on viroids, the smallest subviral pathogens, and his applied work on viroid detection in crops.
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Chemistry
David C. Phillips, David M. Blow
for their contributions to protein X-ray crystallography and to the elucidation of structures of enzymes and their mechanisms of action.
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Mathematics
Kiyoshi Itō
for his fundamental contributions to pure and applied probability theory, especially the creation of the stochastic differential and integral calculus.
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Mathematics
Peter Lax
for his outstanding contributions to many areas of analysis and applied mathematics.
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Medicine
Meir Wilchek, Pedro Cuatrecasas
for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences.
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Physics
Bruno B. Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi
for the discovery of extra-solar X-ray sources and the elucidation of their physical processes.
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Physics
Herbert Friedman
for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays.