Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2006/2007: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Michel A. J. Georges, Ronald L. Phillips
for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences.
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Chemistry
Ada E. Yonath, George Feher
for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.
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Mathematics
Hillel Furstenberg
for his profound contributions to ergodic theory, probability, topological dynamics, analysis on symmetric spaces and homogenous flows.
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Mathematics
Stephen Smale
for his groundbreaking contributions that have played a fundamental role in shaping differential topology, dynamical systems, mathematical economics, and other subjects in mathematics.
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Physics
Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
for their independent discovery of the giant magnetoresistance phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as spintronics, which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information.