Subject: Wolf Foundation Prizes awarded

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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 12:44:07 PDT

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March 29, 1996
THE WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZES PRESENTED

The 1995/6 Wolf Prizes were presented on Sunday, March 24, 1996 by the President of Israel, Ezer Weizman, at the Knesset building in Jerusalem. Awards of $ 100,000 in each category  were made for outstanding achievements, this year in Mathematics, Medicine, Agriculture and the Arts (Music), as wel
l as Chemistry. 

   THE WOLF FOUNDATION  PRIZES 1995/6

AGRICULTURE
   MORRIS SCHNITZER, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Agriculture Canada,       Ottawa, Canada, and   FRANK J. STEVENSON, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A., for their pioneering  contributions to our  understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter 
and its application to agriculture.
   
CHEMISTRY
   GILBERT STORK, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., and
    SAMUEL J. DANISHEFSKY, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Columbia University, N.Y. ,U.S.A., for designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicina
lly important compounds.

MATHEMATICS
   ROBERT LANGLANDS, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A., for his path-blazing work and extraordinary insight in the fields of number theory, automorphic forms and group representation, and
   ANDREW J. WILES, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A., for spectacular contributions to number theory and related fields, major advances on fundamental conjectures, and for settling Fermat’s last theorem.

MEDICINE
   STANLEY B. PRUSINER, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., for discovering prions, a new class of pathogens that cause important neurodegenerative disease by inducing changes in protein structure.

ARTS - ( Music)
   ZUBIN  MEHTA, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tel Aviv, Israel, who is considered one of the world’s foremost conductors of our time. His humanitarian contributions to bring people together through the universal language of music and his constant encouragement of young artists, are unforgett
able, and
  GYORGY LIGETI, Hochschule fuer Musik, Hamburg, Germany, one of the most 
outstanding  composers of the second half of the 20th century. While based on 
musical tradition, he has brought new ways, original and innovative, and 
created models to inspire younger generations of composers.

THE WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZES - Awarded since 1978, its recipients are selected 
by international prize committees. Each Prize consists of a diploma and US$ 
100,000 equally divided in the event of co-recipients.

For more information: Yaron Gruder, Wolf Foundation, 
e.mail: [email-masked]
URL: http: //www.aquanet.co.il/wolf.html
phone 972 9 557120   fax  972 9 541253