Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 2010: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    David Baulcombe

    Biology

    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.

  2. Mathematics

    Dennis Sullivan

    Math

    for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.

  3. Mathematics

    Shing-Tung Yau

    Math

    for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.

  4. Medicine

    Axel Ullrich

    Biology

    for his pioneering contributions to the discovery and characterization of human proto-onco-genes and the development of novel cancer therapies.

  5. Physics

    Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, John F. Clauser

    Physics

    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.