Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 1994/1995: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Carl B. Huffaker, Perry Adkisson

    Biology

    for their contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops.

  2. Chemistry

    Peter Schultz, Richard Lerner

    Chemistry

    for converting antibodies into enzymes, thus permitting the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible to achieve by classical chemical procedures.

  3. Mathematics

    Jürgen Moser

    Math

    for his fundamental work on stability in Hamiltonian and his profound and influential contributions to nonlinear differential equations.

  4. Medicine

    Michael Berridge, Yasutomi Nishizuka

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning cellular transmembrane signalling involving phospholipids and calcium.

  5. Physics

    Vitaly L. Ginzburg

    Physics

    for his contributions to the theory of superconductivity and to the theory of high-energy processes in astrophysics.

  6. Physics

    Yoichiro Nambu

    Physics

    for his contribution to elementary particle theory, including recognition of the role played by spontaneous symmetry-breaking in analogy with superconductivity theory, and the discovery of the color symmetry of the strong interactions.