Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1989: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Michael Elliott, Peter M. Biggs
for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection.
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Chemistry
Alan R. Battersby, Duilio Arigoni
for their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.
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Mathematics
Alberto Calderón
for his groundbreaking work on singular integral operators and their application to and important problems in partial differential equations.
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Mathematics
John Milnor
for ingenious and highly original discoveries in geometry, which have opened important new vistas in topology from the algebraic, combinatorial, and differentiable viewpoint.
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Medicine
Edward B. Lewis
for his demonstration and exploration of the genetic control of the development of body segments by homeotic genes.
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Medicine
John B. Gurdon
for his introduction of the xenopus oocyte into molecular biology and his demonstration that the nucleus of a differentiated cell and of the egg differ in expression but not in the content of genetic material.