Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2010: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
David Baulcombe
for pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants is of profound importance, not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine.
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Mathematics
Dennis Sullivan
for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.
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Mathematics
Shing-Tung Yau
for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.
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Medicine
Axel Ullrich
for his pioneering contributions to the discovery and characterization of human proto-onco-genes and the development of novel cancer therapies.
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Physics
Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, John F. Clauser
for their fundamental conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, specifically an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of Bell's inequalities or extensions there of using entangled quantum states.