Extractions: Yuan Longping, is presented Wolf Prize in Agriculture by the President of the State of Israel, Moshe Katsav.(Agencies/Xinhua Photo) China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Yuan Longping, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent. To help increase world food supply, he has shared his knowledge, techniques, and breeding materials with scientists worldwide," according to the Wolf Prize Jury in this field. The agriculture prize was shared by Yuan Longping and Steven Tanksley, 50, of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple. Since 1978, five or six prizes have been awarded annually to outstanding scientists and artists. To date, 224 laureates from 21 countries have been honored.(Agencies/Xinhua Photo)
The Scripps Research Institute - News And Views TSRI Professor Wins wolf prize in Chemistry. The Scripps Research Institute(TSRI) Professor K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., has won the http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20010129/wolf.html
Extractions: Chirality, or handedness, is the structural characteristic of a molecule that makes it impossible to superimpose it on its mirror image. Proteins, DNA, and carbohydrates are all chiral molecules: without the correct handedness, they will not function as the basic molecules of life. Many drugs must also be of correct chirality; indeed, in some cases, the wrong handedness can be toxic. Sharpless shares the Wolf Prize with Professor Henri B. Kagan, Ph.D., University of Paris-South, France, and Professor Ryoji Noyori, Ph.D., Nagoya University, Japan, who worked independently in the same field. Professor K. Barry Sharpless will receive his award from the president of the Israel in May. TSRI Directory Library Contact Us ... Past Issues
The Scripps Research Institute - News And Publications Sharpless Wins wolf prize. La Jolla, CA. January 16, 2001 K. BarrySharpless, Ph.D., WM Keck Professor of Chemistry, Department http://www.scripps.edu/news/press/011601.html
Extractions: Sharpless Wins Wolf Prize La Jolla, CA. January 16, 2001 K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has won the 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Sharpless, who has been with TSRI since 1990, is cited by the Wolf Prize jury for his "pioneering, creative, and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance." Chirality, or handedness, is the structural characteristic of a molecule that makes it impossible to superimpose it on its mirror image. Proteins, DNA, and carbohydrates are all chiral molecules: without the correct handedness, they will not function as the basic molecules of life. Many drugs must also be of correct chirality; indeed, in some cases, the wrong handedness can be toxic. In 1980, Sharpless reported a breakthrough in synthesizing chiral molecules. His method-the highly enantioselective epoxidation of allylic alcohols catalyzed by a titanium complex-is of broad scope and is now used routinely. More recently, Sharpless developed another useful method-the asymmetric dihydroxylation of alkenes catalyzed by an osmium complex.
China's "Father Of Hybrid Rice" Awarded Wolf Prize China s Father of Hybrid Rice awarded wolf prize. 200405-09 195352Xinhua English. Yuan Longping, is presented wolf prize in http://english.sina.com/news/technology/yuanlongping.shtml
Extractions: var conf = 'english'; refExtJs("http://ads.sina.com/adConfig/"+conf+".js"); HOME NEWS SPECIAL REPORT COMMENTARY ... HOTEL NEWS > China Taiwan/HK Business Technology ... Life China's "Father of Hybrid Rice" awarded Wolf Prize 2004-05-09 19:53:52 Xinhua English Yuan Longping, is presented Wolf Prize in Agriculture by the President of the State of Israel, Moshe Katsav.(Agencies/Xinhua Photo) China's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, is awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 9, 2004. Yuan Longping, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent. To help increase world food supply, he has shared his knowledge, techniques, and breeding materials with scientists worldwide," according to the Wolf Prize Jury in this field. The agriculture prize was shared by Yuan Longping and Steven Tanksley, 50, of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple.
China's 'Father Of Hybrid Rice' Awarded Wolf Prize China s Father of Hybrid Rice Awarded wolf prize. China s Father ofHybrid Rice , Yuan Longping, was awarded wolf prize in Agriculture http://www.china.org.cn/english/international/94997.htm
Extractions: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the UN ... Foreign Affairs College China's 'Father of Hybrid Rice' Awarded Wolf Prize China 's "Father of Hybrid Rice", Yuan Longping, was awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture in Jerusalem , on Sunday. Moshe Katsav, president of the State of Israel, presented the prize to him. Yuan, 74, director of the China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center , is "one of the scientific giants in the history of modern agricultural research and has made a dramatic impact on worldwide food production. Under his leadership, and after a decade of cooperative research efforts, among hundreds of rice scientists from numerous research institutes and universities, rice yields were generally enhanced by 20 percent, and China rice production, by 50 percent. To help increase world food supply, he has shared his knowledge, techniques, and breeding materials with scientists worldwide," according to the Wolf Prize Jury in this field.
Nambu Awarded Wolf Prize In Physics Nambu awarded wolf prize in physics. Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry PrattJudson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/941128/nambu.shtml
Extractions: contact Yoichiro Nambu, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute and one of the leading figures in the development of modern particle physics, has been awarded the 1994-95 Wolf Prize in physics. Nambu was honored for his contributions to theoretical particle physics in particular, for the work he did to develop the concept of "spontaneous symmetry-breaking" in superconductivity and in the physics of fundamental particles. His theories form an essential cornerstone of what physicists call the Standard Model, which explains in a unified way three of the four fundamental forces of nature: strong, weak and electromagnetic. The award also recognizes his significant contributions to the "color gauge theory," which explains how the strong nuclear force governs the behavior of the quarks that make up protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei, and his contributions to String Theory, one of the dominant theories in physics today. Although Nambu said he was surprised to receive the award, his colleagues said he has long deserved this kind of recognition for his work.
Bellwether 56: Ralph Brinster A Recipient Of Wolf Prize In Medicine Veterinary Medicine. Ralph Brinster a Recipient of wolf prize in Medicine.Dr. Ralph L. Brinster, V60, Richard King Mellon Professor http://www.vet.upenn.edu/schoolresources/communications/publications/bellwether/
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Princeton - News - Mathematician Elias Stein Wins Wolf Prize Princeton Mathematician Elias Stein Wins wolf prize. Princeton faculty have now wonthe wolf prize in mathematics for each of the last three years it was given. http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/99/q1/0120-stein.htm
Extractions: Date: January 20, 1999 PRINCETON, N.J. Princeton University professor Elias M. Stein is one of two mathematicians who won the 1999 Wolf Prize, one of the highest honors in the field. The prize recognized Stein for his "fundamental contributions" to developing methods for analyzing wave energies, such as light and sound. Stein has spent much of his career studying and improving upon a mathematical technique called Fourier analysis. The method, invented by the 19th Century French mathematician J.B.J. Fourier, allows scientists to understand the harmonic content of waveforms. A physicist, for example, might use Fourier analysis to understand what mixture of wave frequencies, or colors, are present in a beam of light. Fourier analysis allows the display on some pieces of home stereo equipment to show what frequencies, or harmonics, are present in music as it plays. The late German-born diplomat Ricardo Wolf established the Wolf Prize in 1978. The prize, which includes a gift of $100,000, is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists "for achievement in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people." Each year it is awarded in four out of five scientific fields, in rotation: agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics. An annual Wolf prize also rotates among architecture, music, painting and sculpture.
Princeton - PWB 020199 - Stein Wins Wolf Prize Stein wins wolf prize. Elias Stein, Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics,is one of two winners of the 1999 wolf prize in mathematics. http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/0201/wolf.htm
Extractions: Princeton Weekly Bulletin February 1, 1999 Elias Stein, Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, is one of two winners of the 1999 Wolf Prize in mathematics. The prize recognized Stein for his "fundamental contributions" to developing methods for analyzing wave energies, such as light and sound. The Wolf Foundation, an Israeli group that awards several prizes in the arts and sciences, also applauded Stein for his "exceptional impact on a new generation of analysts through his eloquent teaching and writing." Princeton faculty have now won the Wolf Prize in mathematics for each of the last three years it was given. Andrew Wiles was a 1996 recipient and Yakov Sinai a 1997 recipent (the prize was not given in mathematics in 1998). Stein shared this year's prize with Laszlo Lovasz of Yale University. Stein has spent much of his career studying and improving upon Fourier analysis. This method, invented by the 19th-century French mathematician J.B.J. Fourier, allows scientists to understand the harmonic content of wave forms. A physicist, for example, might use Fourier analysis to understand what mixture of wave frequencies, or colors, are present in a beam of light. Fourier analysis allows the display on some pieces of home stereo equipment to show what frequencies, or harmonics, are present in music as it plays. Part of Stein's work has been to develop new methods and uses for harmonic analysis. The technique has grown beyond analysis of wave phenomena and is now a key tool for solving partial differential equations, the mathematical laws that govern most physical phenomena. The technique also has applications in fields as diverse as number theory and probability theory.
$100,000 Award: Chemists Stork, Danishefsky Win Wolf Prize $100,000 Award Chemists Stork, Danishefsky Win wolf prize. Announcementof the wolf prize in chemistry had been scheduled for Nov. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss10/record2110.14.html
Extractions: Samuel Danishefsky and Gilbert Stork, Columbia scientists who have spent their careers replicating nature's chemistry for human use, have won the 1995-96 Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry, it was announced Monday in Israel. Danishefsky was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral researcher with Stork at Columbia from 1961 to 1963, and since 1993 has been professor of chemistry at Columbia and has held the Eugene W. Kettering Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. Stork is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and has been involved in research at Columbia for more than 40 years. The Israel-based Wolf Foundation said in its announcement that both Columbia scientists will be honored for "designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccarides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds." The two, who are friends and colleagues, will share a prize of $100,000. "It is a great and, I hope, deserved honor to share the Wolf Prize with my mentor, Gilbert Stork," Danishefsky said from Jerusalem.
Columbia University Record Kandel Wins wolf prize. The wolf prize, Israel s most prestigious award, is presentedeach year by the president of Israel for achievements in science and art. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/newrec/2412/tmpl/story.1.html
Extractions: Vol. 24., No. 12 January 21, 1999 BY BOB NELSON University Professor Eric R. Kandel, the biologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has devoted four decades to discovering what molecular changes take place in cells when an organism learns a new behavior, has been named to receive the 1999 Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine. The Wolf Prize, Israel's most prestigious award, is presented each year by the president of Israel for achievements in science and art. In the prize's 20-year existence, 17 recipients have gone on to win the Nobel Prize. "I'm deeply honored," said Kandel, 69, who will accept the $100,000 award in a ceremony May 2 at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. "I have always felt very privileged to be at Columbia, with its outstanding neurobiology community. In a larger sense, I see this recognition as also reflecting on the intellectual life of that neurobiology community as a whole." What happens in the brain when a memory is formed or when learning takes place has been a major question for both neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. Until the late 1950s, investigations of these questions were dominated by behavioral approaches that tended to treat the brain as a black box, without any understanding of what took place within it.
Wolf Prize 2000 US, Japanese physicists to share wolf prize By Judy SiegelItzkovich. (January19) The wolf prize for physics will be shared this year by Prof. http://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/News_koshiba_wolf.html
Extractions: (January 19) The Wolf Prize for physics will be shared this year by Prof. Raymond Davis Jr., 85, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Prof. Masatoshi Koshiba, 73, of the University of Tokyo. The $100,000 prizes will be presented at the Knesset on May 21. "Their observations of the elusive neutrinos of astrophysical origin have opened a new window of opportunity for the study of astronomical objects, such as the sun and exploding stars, and the study of fundamental properties of matter," the Wolf jury stated. Davis, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, has been associated with the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York since 1946. "He developed, through persistent and sustained efforts, the first large-scale radiochemical neutrino detectors and obtained the first measurements of the flu of neutrinos from the sun." These measurements were shown to provide a very stringent test for theories of the solar interior.
Embassy Of Belgium Tel Aviv, Israel Welcome. wolf prize in physics awarded to two Belgian scientists. TheBelgian Embassy is proud to announce that two Belgian citizens http://www.diplomatie.be/telaviv/default.asp?ACT=5&content=7&id=1&mnu=1
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Extractions: NEWS RELEASE, 02/24/98 by Robert Sanders BERKELEY Gabor A. Somorjai, one of the pioneers of surface chemistry and a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the annual Wolf Prize in Chemistry from the Israel-based Wolf Foundation. Somorjai, 62, shares the $100,000 award with Gerhard Ertl, 61, of the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Gessellschaft in Berlin. The two independently laid the foundation for the present understanding of chemical reactions at the surface of materials. The field is of great importance in industry today, in areas ranging from pollution control by catalytic converters to the creation of thin films on computer hard drives. The study of surfaces in general their electrical, magnetic and optical as well as chemical properties has been pushed greatly by the race to make electronic circuits smaller and smaller, cramming millions of transistors into a dime-sized area. "This is the first major international award in the field of surface chemistry, and I was very happy to receive it," said Somorjai, who also is a faculty senior scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Recognition has finally come to the field."
02.04.98 - Somorjai Wins Wolf Prize In Chemistry Somorjai Wins wolf prize in Chemistry. Gabor A. Somorjai, professor of chemistry,has been named winner of the wolf prize in Chemistry, along with Gerhard Ertl. http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0204/somorjai.html
Extractions: Somorjai Wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry Gabor A. Somorjai, professor of chemistry, has been named winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, along with Gerhard Ertl. The two will share the $100,000 award. The Israeli-based Wolf Foundation, in its Jan. 27 announcement, said the two men, working independently, laid the foundation for the present understanding of surface chemical reactions, which it said is of enormous importance in industrial technology as well as basic science. Surface science technologies are applied in many industrial processes and are used to fight pollution. Somorjai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1935. He immigrated to the United States at the 1956 outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution, while in his fourth year as a chemical engineering student at Budapest's Technical University. He received his PhD in chemistry at Berkeley in 1960. After graduation he joined the IBM research staff in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., where he remained until 1964. At that time he was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at Berkeley; in 1972 he became professor. Somorjai has educated more than 90 PhD students and had over 110 post-doctoral co-workers. He has written three textbooks and more than 700 scientific papers on surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and solid-state chemistry.
Ask NRICH wolf prize. Ask NRICH To be archived Onwards and Upwards January 2003 WolfPrize Does anybody know who won the wolf prize this year, and for what? http://nrich.maths.org/discus/messages/2069/5383.html?1042718971
