Wolf Prize 2013: Winners

Recipients

1. Jared Diamond

   Biology

   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.

2. Joachim Messing

   Biology

   for innovations in recombinant DNA cloning that revolutionized agriculture and deciphering the genetic codes of crop plants.