Wolf Prize 1998: Winners

Recipients

1. Agriculture

   Baldur R. Stefansson, Ilan Chet

   Biology

   for their contributions to the environmentally safe development of world agriculture through innovative approaches in breeding and bio-control.

2. Chemistry

   Gabor A. Somorjai, Gerhard Ertl

   Chemistry

   for their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular.

3. Medicine

   Michael Sela, Ruth Arnon

   Biology

   for their major discoveries in the field of immunology.

4. Physics

   Michael V. Berry, Yakir Aharonov

   Physics

   for the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase, and their incorporation into many fields of physics.