Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2005: Winners
Recipients
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Chemistry
Richard N. Zare
for his ingenious applications of laser techniques, for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules, and their use in analytical chemistry.
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Mathematics
Grigory Margulis
for his monumental contributions to algebra, in particular to the theory of lattices in semi-simple Lie groups, and striking applications of this to ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics and measure theory.
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Mathematics
Sergei Novikov
for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to algebraic and differential topology, and to mathematical physics, notably the introduction of algebraic-geometric methods.
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Medicine
Alexander Levitzki
for pioneering signal transduction therapy and for developing tyrosine kinase inhibitors as effective agents against cancer and a range of other diseases.
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Medicine
Tony Pawson
for his discovery of protein domains essential for mediating protein-protein interactions in cellular signaling pathways, and the insights this research has provided into cancer.
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Medicine
Anthony R. Hunter
for the discovery of protein kinases that phosphorylate tyrosine residues in proteins, critical for the regulation of a wide variety of cellular events, including malignant transformation.
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Physics
Daniel Kleppner
for groundbreaking work in atomic physics of hydrogenic systems, including research on the hydrogen maser, Rydberg atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation.