Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1993: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
John E. Casida
for pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects.
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Chemistry
Ahmed H. Zewail
for using ultrafast lasers in femtosecond time resolved measurements of the evolution of chemical reactions – thus obtaining the first direct observation of bond breakage in a molecule.
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Mathematics
Jacques Tits
for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.
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Mathematics
Mikhail Gromov
for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.
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Physics
Benoit Mandelbrot
by recognizing the widespread occurrence of fractals and developing mathematical tools for describing them, he has changed our view of nature.