Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 2013: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Jared Diamond

    Biology

    for pioneering theories of crop domestication, the rise of agriculture and its influences on the development and demise of human societies, as well as its impact on the ecology of the environment.

  2. Agriculture

    Joachim Messing

    Biology

    for innovations in recombinant DNA cloning that revolutionized agriculture and deciphering the genetic codes of crop plants.

  3. Chemistry

    Robert S. Langer

    Chemistry

    for innovations in polymer chemistry that have had profound impact on medicine, particularly in the areas of drug delivery and tissue engineering.

  4. Mathematics

    George D. Mostow

    Math

    for fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.

  5. Mathematics

    Michael Artin

    Math

    for fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both commutative and non-commutative.

  6. Physics

    Juan Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller

    Physics

    for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases.