Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 2014: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Jorge Dubcovsky, Leif Andersson

    Biology

    for providing groundbreaking contributions to plant and animal sciences, respectively, by using modern technologies of genomic research.

  2. Chemistry

    Chi-Huey Wong

    Chemistry

    for numerous original contributions to the programmable and practical synthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins.

  3. Mathematics

    Peter Sarnak

    Math

    for deep contributions to Analysis, Number Theory, Geometry, and Combinatorics.

  4. Medicine

    Gary Ruvkun, Victor Ambros

    Biology

    for The discovery of microRNA as central regulators of gene expression in health and disease.

  5. Medicine

    Nahum Sonenberg

    Biology

    for the discovery of the key protein regulators of the protein synthesis machinery.