Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2008: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
James H. Tumlinson, John A. Pickett, W. Joe Lewis
for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. Their scientific contributions on chemical ecology have fostered the development of integrated pest management and significantly advanced agricultural sustainability.
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Chemistry
Allen J. Bard, William E. Moerner
for the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.
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Mathematics
David Mumford
for his work on algebraic surfaces, on geometric invariant theory, and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.
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Mathematics
Phillip A. Griffiths
for his work on variations of Hodge structures, the theory of periods of abelian integrals, and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.
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Mathematics
Pierre Deligne
for his work on mixed Hodge theory, the Weil conjectures, the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, and for his contributions to arithmetic.