Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 1999: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Raymond U. Lemieux
for his fundamental and seminal contributions to the study and synthesis of oligosaccharides and to the elucidation of their role in molecular recognition in biological systems.
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Mathematics
Elias M. Stein
for his contributions to classical and 'Euclidean' Fourier analysis and for his exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing.
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Mathematics
László Lovász
for his outstanding contributions to combinatorics, theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization.
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Medicine
Eric R. Kandel
for the elucidation of the organismic, cellular and molecular mechanisms whereby short term memory is converted to a long term form.
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Physics
Dan Shechtman
for the experimental discovery of quasi-crystals, non periodic solids having long-range order, which inspired the exploration of a new fundamental state of matter.