Wolf Prize 2001: Winners

Recipients

1. Agriculture

   James E. Womack, Roger N. Beachy

   Biology

   for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant (Beachy) and animal (Womack) sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields.

2. Chemistry

   Henri B. Kagan, Ryōji Noyori

   Chemistry

   for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing humankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.

3. Chemistry

   K. Barry Sharpless

   Chemistry

   for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing humankind´s ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.

4. Mathematics

   Saharon Shelah

   Math

   for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of mathematics.

5. Mathematics

   Vladimir Arnold

   Math

   for his deep and influential work in a multitude of areas of mathematics, including dynamical systems, differential equations, and singularity theory.

6. Medicine

   Alexander Varshavsky, Avram Hershko

   Biology

   for the discovery of the ubiquitin system of intracellular protein degradation and the crucial functions of this system in cellular regulation.