Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1990: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Jozef Stefaan Schell
For his pioneering work in genetic transformation of plants, thereby opening up new horizons in basic plant science and breeding.
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Mathematics
Ennio De Giorgi
for his innovating ideas and fundamental achievements in partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
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Mathematics
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro
for his fundamental contributions in the fields of homogeneous complex domains, discrete groups, representation theory and automorphic forms.
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Medicine
Maclyn McCarty
for his part in the demonstration that the transforming factor in bacteria is due to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the concomitant discovery that the genetic material is composed of DNA.
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Physics
David J. Thouless, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
for a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.