Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2000: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Gurdev Khush
for his extraordinary contribution to theoretical research in plant genetics, evolution and breeding especially of rice, with regard to food production and alleviation of hunger.
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Chemistry
Frank Albert Cotton
for opening up an entirely new phase of transition metal chemistry based on pairs and clusters of metal atoms directly linked by single or multiple bonds.
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Mathematics
Jean-Pierre Serre
for his many fundamental contributions to topology, algebraic geometry, algebra, and number theory and for his inspirational lectures and writing.
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Mathematics
Raoul Bott
for his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.
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Physics
Masatoshi Koshiba, Raymond Davis Jr.
for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, thus creating the emerging field of neutrino astronomy.