Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1995/1996: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Frank J. Stevenson, Morris Schnitzer
for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter and its application to agriculture.
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Chemistry
Gilbert Stork, Samuel J. Danishefsky
for designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.
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Mathematics
Andrew Wiles
for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on undamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat's last theorem.
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Mathematics
Robert Langlands
for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation.
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Medicine
Stanley B. Prusiner
for discovering prions, new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structute.