Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1988: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Charles Thibault, Ernest John Christopher Polge
for pioneering work in reproductive physiology including cell preservation, fertilization processes, egg biology and embryo manipulations for domestic animal improvement.
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Chemistry
Joshua Jortner, Raphael David Levine
for their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity.
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Mathematics
Friedrich Hirzebruch
for outstanding work combining topology, algebraic and differential geometry, and algebraic number theory; and for his stimulation of mathematical cooperation and research.
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Mathematics
Lars Hörmander
for fundamental work in modern analysis, in particular, the application of pseudo differential and Fourier integral operators to linear partial differential equations.
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Medicine
Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Henri G. Hers
for the biochemical elucidation of lysosomal storage diseases and the resulting contributions to biology, pathology, prenatal diagnosis, and therapeutics.
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Physics
Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking
for their brilliant development of the theory of general relativity, in which they have shown the necessity for cosmological singularities and have elucidated the physics of black holes. In this work they have greatly enlarged our understanding of the origin and possible fate of the Universe.