Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1992: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
John A. Pople
for his outstanding contributions to Theoretical Chemistry, particularly in developing effective and widely used modern quantum – chemical methods.
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Mathematics
John G. Thompson
for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics.
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Mathematics
Lennart Carleson
for his fundamental contributions to Fourier analysis, complex analysis, quasiconformal mappings and dynamical systems.
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Medicine
M. Judah Folkman
for his discoveries which originated the concept and developed the field of angiogenesis research.
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Physics
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
for his discovery of an orbiting radio pulsar and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision.