Wolf Prize

Wolf Prize 2020: Winners

Recipients

  1. Agriculture

    Caroline Dean

    Biology

    for pioneering discoveries in flowering time control and epigenetic basis of vernalization.

  2. Mathematics

    Simon Donaldson

    Math

    for their contributions to differential geometry and topology

  3. Mathematics

    Yakov Eliashberg

    Math

    for their contributions to differential geometry and topology.

  4. Medicine

    Emmanuelle Charpentier

    Biology

    for deciphering and repurposing the bacterial CRISPR/Cas9 immune system for genome editing.

  5. Medicine

    Jennifer A. Doudna

    Biology

    for revealing the medicine-revolutionizing mechanism of bacterial immunity via RNA-guided genome editing.

  6. Physics

    Allan H. MacDonald, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Rafi Bistritzer

    Physics

    For pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene.