Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2004: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Steven D. Tanksley, Yuan Longping
for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple.
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Chemistry
Harry B. Gray
for pioneering work in bio-inorganic chemistry, unravelling novel principles of structure and long-range electron transfer in proteins.
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Medicine
Robert A. Weinberg
for his discovery that cancer cells including human tumor cells, carry somatically mutated genes-oncogenes that operate to drive their malignant proliferation.
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Medicine
Roger Y. Tsien
for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction.
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Physics
François Englert, Peter W. Higgs, Robert Brout
for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles.