Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize 2013: Winners
Recipients
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Agriculture
Jared Diamond
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.
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Agriculture
Joachim Messing
for innovations in recombinant DNA cloning that revolutionized agriculture and deciphering the genetic codes of crop plants.
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Chemistry
Robert S. Langer
for innovations in polymer chemistry that have had profound impact on medicine, particularly in the areas of drug delivery and tissue engineering.
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Mathematics
George D. Mostow
for fundamental and pioneering contribution to geometry and Lie group theory.
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Mathematics
Michael Artin
for fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, both commutative and non-commutative.
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Physics
Juan Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller
for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases.