Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 2018: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Gene E. Robinson

    Biology

    for leading the genome revolution in the biology of honey bee populations.

  2. Chemistry

    Makoto Fujita

    Chemistry

    for his achievements in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

  3. Chemistry

    Omar M. Yaghi

    Chemistry

    for his contribution in the field of reticular chemistry.

  4. Mathematics

    Alexander Beilinson, Vladimir Drinfeld

    Math

    for their ground-breaking work in algebraic geometry (a field that integrates abstract algebra with geometry), in mathematical physics and in presentation theory, a field which helps to understand complex algebraic structures.

  5. Physics

    Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard

    Physics

    for founding and advancing the fields of Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Teleportation.