Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2002/2003: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Fuller W. Bazer, R. Michael Roberts
for discoveries of Interferon-t and other pregnancy-associated proteins, which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to maintain pregnancy, with profound effects on the efficiency of animal production systems, as well as human health and well-being.
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Mathematics
John Tate
for his creation of fundamental concepts in algebraic number theory.
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Mathematics
Mikio Sato
for his creation of 'algebraic analysis', including hyperfunction and microfunction theory,holonomic quantum field theory, and a unified theory of soliton equations.
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Medicine
Mario R. Capecchi
for their contribution to the development of gene-targeting, enabling elucidation of gene function in mice.
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Medicine
Oliver Smithies, Ralph L. Brinster
for the development of procedures to manipulate mouse ova and embryos, which has enabled transgenesis and its applications in mice.
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Physics
Anthony J. Leggett, Bertrand Halperin
for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics: Leggett on superfluidity of the light helium isotope and macroscopic quantum phenomena; and Halperin on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons.