Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize: every winner
Every recorded recipient in one list, oldest first. Established by the Wolf Foundation in 1975 and first awarded in 1978 in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. Awarded annually, with the ceremony held in Jerusalem, Israel. Carries a prize of $100,000 per category, split among co-recipients.
330 recipients, 1978-2025
| Year | Category | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Agriculture | George F. Sprague |
| 1978 | Agriculture | John Charles Walker |
| 1978 | Chemistry | Carl Djerassi |
| 1978 | Mathematics | Carl L. Siegel |
| 1978 | Mathematics | Israel Gelfand |
| 1978 | Medicine | George D. Snell |
| 1978 | Medicine | Jean Dausset |
| 1978 | Medicine | Jon J. van Rood |
| 1978 | Physics | Chien-Shiung Wu |
| 1979 | Agriculture | Jay L. Lush |
| 1979 | Agriculture | Kenneth Blaxter |
| 1979 | Chemistry | Herman Mark |
| 1979 | Mathematics | André Weil |
| 1979 | Mathematics | Jean Leray |
| 1979 | Medicine | Arvid Carlsson |
| 1979 | Medicine | Oleh Hornykiewicz |
| 1979 | Medicine | Roger Wolcott Sperry |
| 1979 | Physics | George Uhlenbeck |
| 1979 | Physics | Giuseppe Occhialini |
| 1980 | Agriculture | Karl Maramorosch |
| 1980 | Chemistry | Henry Eyring |
| 1980 | Mathematics | Andrey Kolmogorov |
| 1980 | Mathematics | Henri Cartan |
| 1980 | Medicine | César Milstein |
| 1980 | Medicine | James L. Gowans |
| 1980 | Medicine | Leo Sachs |
| 1980 | Physics | Kenneth G. Wilson |
| 1980 | Physics | Leo P. Kadanoff |
| 1980 | Physics | Michael E. Fisher |
| 1981 | Agriculture | Glenn W. Salisbury |
| 1981 | Agriculture | Henry A. Lardy |
| 1981 | Agriculture | John O. Almquist |
| 1981 | Chemistry | Joseph Chatt |
| 1981 | Mathematics | Lars Ahlfors |
| 1981 | Mathematics | Oscar Zariski |
| 1981 | Medicine | Barbara McClintock |
| 1981 | Medicine | Stanley N. Cohen |
| 1981 | Physics | Freeman Dyson |
| 1981 | Physics | Gerardus 't Hooft |
| 1981 | Physics | Victor Weisskopf |
| 1982 | Agriculture | Wendell L. Roelofs |
| 1982 | Chemistry | George C. Pimentel |
| 1982 | Chemistry | John C. Polanyi |
| 1982 | Mathematics | Hassler Whitney |
| 1982 | Mathematics | Mark Krein |
| 1982 | Medicine | James W. Black |
| 1982 | Medicine | Jean-Pierre Changeux |
| 1982 | Medicine | Solomon H. Snyder |
| 1982 | Physics | Leon M. Lederman |
| 1982 | Physics | Martin L. Perl |
| 1983/1984 | Agriculture | Cornelis T. de Wit |
| 1983/1984 | Agriculture | Don Kirkham |
| 1983/1984 | Chemistry | Harden M. McConnell |
| 1983/1984 | Chemistry | Herbert S. Gutowsky |
| 1983/1984 | Chemistry | John S. Waugh |
| 1983/1984 | Mathematics | Paul Erdős |
| 1983/1984 | Mathematics | Shiing-Shen Chern |
| 1984 | Physics | Erwin L. Hahn |
| 1984 | Physics | Peter B. Hirsch |
| 1984 | Physics | Theodore H. Maiman |
| 1984/1985 | Agriculture | Robert H. Burris |
| 1984/1985 | Chemistry | Rudolph A. Marcus |
| 1984/1985 | Mathematics | Hans Lewy |
| 1984/1985 | Mathematics | Kunihiko Kodaira |
| 1984/1985 | Medicine | Donald F. Steiner |
| 1985 | Physics | Conyers Herring |
| 1985 | Physics | Philippe Nozières |
| 1986 | Agriculture | Ernest R. Sears |
| 1986 | Agriculture | Ralph Riley |
| 1986 | Chemistry | Albert Eschenmoser |
| 1986 | Chemistry | Elias James Corey |
| 1986 | Mathematics | Atle Selberg |
| 1986 | Mathematics | Samuel Eilenberg |
| 1986 | Medicine | Osamu Hayaishi |
| 1986 | Physics | Albert J. Libchaber |
| 1986 | Physics | Mitchell J. Feigenbaum |
| 1987 | Agriculture | Theodor O. Diener |
| 1987 | Chemistry | David C. Phillips |
| 1987 | Chemistry | David M. Blow |
| 1987 | Mathematics | Kiyoshi Itō |
| 1987 | Mathematics | Peter Lax |
| 1987 | Medicine | Meir Wilchek |
| 1987 | Medicine | Pedro Cuatrecasas |
| 1987 | Physics | Bruno B. Rossi |
| 1987 | Physics | Herbert Friedman |
| 1987 | Physics | Riccardo Giacconi |
| 1988 | Agriculture | Charles Thibault |
| 1988 | Agriculture | Ernest John Christopher Polge |
| 1988 | Chemistry | Joshua Jortner |
| 1988 | Chemistry | Raphael David Levine |
| 1988 | Mathematics | Friedrich Hirzebruch |
| 1988 | Mathematics | Lars Hörmander |
| 1988 | Medicine | Elizabeth F. Neufeld |
| 1988 | Medicine | Henri G. Hers |
| 1988 | Physics | Roger Penrose |
| 1988 | Physics | Stephen Hawking |
| 1989 | Agriculture | Michael Elliott |
| 1989 | Agriculture | Peter M. Biggs |
| 1989 | Chemistry | Alan R. Battersby |
| 1989 | Chemistry | Duilio Arigoni |
| 1989 | Mathematics | Alberto Calderón |
| 1989 | Mathematics | John Milnor |
| 1989 | Medicine | Edward B. Lewis |
| 1989 | Medicine | John B. Gurdon |
| 1990 | Agriculture | Jozef Stefaan Schell |
| 1990 | Mathematics | Ennio De Giorgi |
| 1990 | Mathematics | Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro |
| 1990 | Medicine | Maclyn McCarty |
| 1990 | Physics | David J. Thouless |
| 1990 | Physics | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
| 1991 | Agriculture | Shang Fa Yang |
| 1991 | Chemistry | Alexander Pines |
| 1991 | Chemistry | Richard R. Ernst |
| 1991 | Medicine | Seymour Benzer |
| 1991 | Physics | Maurice Goldhaber |
| 1991 | Physics | Valentine L. Telegdi |
| 1992 | Chemistry | John A. Pople |
| 1992 | Mathematics | John G. Thompson |
| 1992 | Mathematics | Lennart Carleson |
| 1992 | Medicine | M. Judah Folkman |
| 1992 | Physics | Joseph H. Taylor Jr. |
| 1993 | Agriculture | John E. Casida |
| 1993 | Chemistry | Ahmed H. Zewail |
| 1993 | Mathematics | Jacques Tits |
| 1993 | Mathematics | Mikhail Gromov |
| 1993 | Physics | Benoit Mandelbrot |
| 1994/1995 | Agriculture | Carl B. Huffaker |
| 1994/1995 | Agriculture | Perry Adkisson |
| 1994/1995 | Chemistry | Peter Schultz |
| 1994/1995 | Chemistry | Richard Lerner |
| 1994/1995 | Mathematics | Jürgen Moser |
| 1994/1995 | Medicine | Michael Berridge |
| 1994/1995 | Medicine | Yasutomi Nishizuka |
| 1994/1995 | Physics | Vitaly L. Ginzburg |
| 1994/1995 | Physics | Yoichiro Nambu |
| 1995/1996 | Agriculture | Frank J. Stevenson |
| 1995/1996 | Agriculture | Morris Schnitzer |
| 1995/1996 | Chemistry | Gilbert Stork |
| 1995/1996 | Chemistry | Samuel J. Danishefsky |
| 1995/1996 | Mathematics | Andrew Wiles |
| 1995/1996 | Mathematics | Robert Langlands |
| 1995/1996 | Medicine | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| 1996/1997 | Agriculture | Neal L. First |
| 1996/1997 | Mathematics | Joseph B. Keller |
| 1996/1997 | Mathematics | Yakov Sinai |
| 1996/1997 | Physics | John A. Wheeler |
| 1997 | Medicine | Mary F. Lyon |
| 1998 | Agriculture | Baldur R. Stefansson |
| 1998 | Agriculture | Ilan Chet |
| 1998 | Chemistry | Gabor A. Somorjai |
| 1998 | Chemistry | Gerhard Ertl |
| 1998 | Medicine | Michael Sela |
| 1998 | Medicine | Ruth Arnon |
| 1998 | Physics | Michael V. Berry |
| 1998 | Physics | Yakir Aharonov |
| 1999 | Chemistry | Raymond U. Lemieux |
| 1999 | Mathematics | Elias M. Stein |
| 1999 | Mathematics | László Lovász |
| 1999 | Medicine | Eric R. Kandel |
| 1999 | Physics | Dan Shechtman |
| 2000 | Agriculture | Gurdev Khush |
| 2000 | Chemistry | Frank Albert Cotton |
| 2000 | Mathematics | Jean-Pierre Serre |
| 2000 | Mathematics | Raoul Bott |
| 2000 | Physics | Masatoshi Koshiba |
| 2000 | Physics | Raymond Davis Jr. |
| 2001 | Agriculture | James E. Womack |
| 2001 | Agriculture | Roger N. Beachy |
| 2001 | Chemistry | Henri B. Kagan |
| 2001 | Chemistry | K. Barry Sharpless |
| 2001 | Chemistry | Ryōji Noyori |
| 2001 | Mathematics | Saharon Shelah |
| 2001 | Mathematics | Vladimir Arnold |
| 2001 | Medicine | Alexander Varshavsky |
| 2001 | Medicine | Avram Hershko |
| 2002/2003 | Agriculture | Fuller W. Bazer |
| 2002/2003 | Agriculture | R. Michael Roberts |
| 2002/2003 | Mathematics | John Tate |
| 2002/2003 | Mathematics | Mikio Sato |
| 2002/2003 | Medicine | Mario R. Capecchi |
| 2002/2003 | Medicine | Oliver Smithies |
| 2002/2003 | Medicine | Ralph L. Brinster |
| 2002/2003 | Physics | Anthony J. Leggett |
| 2002/2003 | Physics | Bertrand Halperin |
| 2004 | Agriculture | Steven D. Tanksley |
| 2004 | Agriculture | Yuan Longping |
| 2004 | Chemistry | Harry B. Gray |
| 2004 | Medicine | Robert A. Weinberg |
| 2004 | Medicine | Roger Y. Tsien |
| 2004 | Physics | François Englert |
| 2004 | Physics | Peter W. Higgs |
| 2004 | Physics | Robert Brout |
| 2005 | Chemistry | Richard N. Zare |
| 2005 | Mathematics | Grigory Margulis |
| 2005 | Mathematics | Sergei Novikov |
| 2005 | Medicine | Alexander Levitzki |
| 2005 | Medicine | Tony Pawson |
| 2005 | Medicine | Anthony R. Hunter |
| 2005 | Physics | Daniel Kleppner |
| 2006/2007 | Agriculture | Michel A. J. Georges |
| 2006/2007 | Agriculture | Ronald L. Phillips |
| 2006/2007 | Chemistry | Ada E. Yonath |
| 2006/2007 | Chemistry | George Feher |
| 2006/2007 | Mathematics | Hillel Furstenberg |
| 2006/2007 | Mathematics | Stephen Smale |
| 2006/2007 | Physics | Albert Fert |
| 2006/2007 | Physics | Peter Grünberg |
| 2008 | Agriculture | James H. Tumlinson |
| 2008 | Agriculture | John A. Pickett |
| 2008 | Agriculture | W. Joe Lewis |
| 2008 | Chemistry | Allen J. Bard |
| 2008 | Chemistry | William E. Moerner |
| 2008 | Mathematics | David Mumford |
| 2008 | Mathematics | Phillip A. Griffiths |
| 2008 | Mathematics | Pierre Deligne |
| 2008/2009 | Medicine | Aharon Razin |
| 2008/2009 | Medicine | Howard Cedar |
| 2010 | Agriculture | David Baulcombe |
| 2010 | Mathematics | Dennis Sullivan |
| 2010 | Mathematics | Shing-Tung Yau |
| 2010 | Medicine | Axel Ullrich |
| 2010 | Physics | Alain Aspect |
| 2010 | Physics | Anton Zeilinger |
| 2010 | Physics | John F. Clauser |
| 2011 | Agriculture | Harris A. Lewin |
| 2011 | Agriculture | R. James Cook |
| 2011 | Chemistry | Ching W. Tang |
| 2011 | Chemistry | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski |
| 2011 | Chemistry | Stuart A. Rice |
| 2011 | Medicine | Rudolf Jaenisch |
| 2011 | Medicine | Shinya Yamanaka |
| 2011 | Physics | Harald Rose |
| 2011 | Physics | Knut Urban |
| 2011 | Physics | Maximilian Haider |
| 2012 | Chemistry | A. Paul Alivisatos |
| 2012 | Chemistry | Charles M. Lieber |
| 2012 | Mathematics | Luis Caffarelli |
| 2012 | Mathematics | Michael Aschbacher |
| 2012 | Medicine | Ronald M. Evans |
| 2012 | Physics | Jacob Bekenstein |
| 2013 | Agriculture | Jared Diamond |
| 2013 | Agriculture | Joachim Messing |
| 2013 | Chemistry | Robert S. Langer |
| 2013 | Mathematics | George D. Mostow |
| 2013 | Mathematics | Michael Artin |
| 2013 | Physics | Juan Ignacio Cirac |
| 2013 | Physics | Peter Zoller |
| 2014 | Agriculture | Jorge Dubcovsky |
| 2014 | Agriculture | Leif Andersson |
| 2014 | Chemistry | Chi-Huey Wong |
| 2014 | Mathematics | Peter Sarnak |
| 2014 | Medicine | Gary Ruvkun |
| 2014 | Medicine | Nahum Sonenberg |
| 2014 | Medicine | Victor Ambros |
| 2015 | Agriculture | Linda J. Saif |
| 2015 | Mathematics | James G. Arthur |
| 2015 | Medicine | Jeffrey Ravetch |
| 2015 | Medicine | John Kappler |
| 2015 | Medicine | Philippa Marrack |
| 2015 | Physics | James D. Bjorken |
| 2015 | Physics | Robert P. Kirshner |
| 2016 | Agriculture | Trudy Mackay |
| 2016 | Chemistry | Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou |
| 2016 | Chemistry | Stuart Schreiber |
| 2016 | Medicine | C. Ronald Kahn |
| 2016 | Medicine | Lewis C. Cantley |
| 2016 | Physics | Yoseph Imry |
| 2017 | Chemistry | Robert G. Bergman |
| 2017 | Mathematics | Charles Fefferman |
| 2017 | Mathematics | Richard Schoen |
| 2017 | Medicine | James P. Allison |
| 2017 | Physics | Didier Queloz |
| 2017 | Physics | Michel Mayor |
| 2018 | Agriculture | Gene E. Robinson |
| 2018 | Chemistry | Makoto Fujita |
| 2018 | Chemistry | Omar M. Yaghi |
| 2018 | Mathematics | Alexander Beilinson |
| 2018 | Mathematics | Vladimir Drinfeld |
| 2018 | Physics | Charles H. Bennett |
| 2018 | Physics | Gilles Brassard |
| 2019 | Agriculture | David Zilberman |
| 2019 | Chemistry | John F. Hartwig |
| 2019 | Chemistry | Stephen L. Buchwald |
| 2019 | Mathematics | Gregory Lawler |
| 2019 | Mathematics | Jean-Francois Le Gall |
| 2019 | Medicine | Jeffrey M. Friedman |
| 2020 | Agriculture | Caroline Dean |
| 2020 | Mathematics | Simon Donaldson |
| 2020 | Mathematics | Yakov Eliashberg |
| 2020 | Medicine | Emmanuelle Charpentier |
| 2020 | Medicine | Jennifer A. Doudna |
| 2020 | Physics | Allan H. MacDonald |
| 2020 | Physics | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero |
| 2020 | Physics | Rafi Bistritzer |
| 2021 | Chemistry | Leslie Leiserowitz |
| 2021 | Chemistry | Meir Lahav |
| 2021 | Medicine | Adrian Krainer |
| 2021 | Medicine | Joan A. Steitz |
| 2021 | Medicine | Lynne E. Maquat |
| 2021 | Physics | Giorgio Parisi |
| 2022 | Agriculture | Pamela C. Ronald |
| 2022 | Chemistry | Benjamin F. Cravatt |
| 2022 | Chemistry | Bonnie L. Bassler |
| 2022 | Chemistry | Carolyn R. Bertozzi |
| 2022 | Mathematics | George Lusztig |
| 2022 | Physics | Anne L’Huillier |
| 2022 | Physics | Ferenc Krausz |
| 2022 | Physics | Paul Corkum |
| 2023 | Agriculture | Martinus Theodore van Genuchten |
| 2023 | Chemistry | Chuan He |
| 2023 | Chemistry | Hiroaki Suga |
| 2023 | Chemistry | Jeffery W. Kelly |
| 2023 | Mathematics | Ingrid Daubechies |
| 2023 | Medicine | Daniel J. Drucker |
| 2024 | Agriculture | Elliot M. Meyerowitz |
| 2024 | Agriculture | Joanne Chory |
| 2024 | Agriculture | Venkatesan Sundaresan |
| 2024 | Mathematics | Adi Shamir |
| 2024 | Mathematics | Noga Alon |
| 2024 | Medicine | Botond Roska |
| 2024 | Medicine | José-Alain Sahel |
| 2024 | Physics | Martin Rees |
| 2025 | Agriculture | Brian J. Staskawicz |
| 2025 | Agriculture | Jeffery L. Dangl |
| 2025 | Agriculture | Jonathan D. G. Jones |
| 2025 | Chemistry | Helmut F. Schwarz |
| 2025 | Medicine | Pamela J. Bjorkman |
| 2025 | Physics | Jainendra K. Jain |
| 2025 | Physics | James P. Eisenstein |
| 2025 | Physics | Mordehai Heiblum |