Wolf Prize 2021: Winners

Recipients

1. Chemistry

   Leslie Leiserowitz, Meir Lahav

   Chemistry

   for collaboratively established the fundamental reciprocal influences of three-dimensional molecular structure upon structures of organic crystals.

2. Medicine

   Adrian Krainer

   Biology

   for his fundamental mechanistic discoveries on RNA splicing leading to a world’s first treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

3. Medicine

   Joan A. Steitz

   Biology

   for ground-breaking discoveries on RNA processing and its function.

4. Medicine

   Lynne E. Maquat

   Biology

   For discovering a mechanism that destroys mutant mRNA in cells – non-sense mediated mRNA decay (NMD).

5. Physics

   Giorgio Parisi

   Physics

   for ground-breaking discoveries in disordered systems, particle physics and statistical physics.