Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 1996/1997: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Neal L. First

    Biology

    for his pioneering research in the reproductive biology of livestock.

  2. Mathematics

    Joseph B. Keller

    Math

    for his profound and innovative contributions, in particular to electromagnetic, optical, acoustic wave propagation and to fluid, solid, quantum and statistical mechanics.

  3. Mathematics

    Yakov Sinai

    Math

    for his fundamental contributions to mathematically rigorous methods in statistical mechanics and the ergodic theory of dynamical systems and their applications in physics.

  4. Physics

    John A. Wheeler

    Physics

    for his seminal contributions to black holes physics, to quantum gravity, and to the theories of nuclear scattering and nuclear fission.