Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1996/1997: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Neal L. First
for his pioneering research in the reproductive biology of livestock.
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Mathematics
Joseph B. Keller
for his profound and innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.
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Mathematics
Yakov Sinai
for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.
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Physics
John A. Wheeler
for his seminal contributions to black holes physics, to quantum gravity, and to the theories of nuclear scattering and nuclear fission.