Wolf Prize 1991: Winners

Recipients

1. Agriculture

   Shang Fa Yang

   Biology

   for remarkable contributions to the understanding of the mechanism of biosynthesis, mode of action and applications of the plant hormone, Ethylene.

2. Chemistry

   Alexander Pines, Richard R. Ernst

   Chemistry

   for their revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially Fourier-transform and two-dimensional NMR by Ernst, and multiple-quantum and high-spin NMR by Pines.

3. Medicine

   Seymour Benzer

   Biology

   for having generated a new field of molecular neurogenetics by his pioneering research on the dissection of the nervous system and behavior by gene mutations.

4. Physics

   Maurice Goldhaber, Valentine L. Telegdi

   Physics

   for their separate seminal contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly those concerning the weak interactions involving leptons.