List of Academy Members Awarded the Wolf Prize

Agriculture

1981 Henry A. Lardy (University of Wisconsin)
1982 Wendell L. Roelofs (Cornell University)
1984/5 Robert H. Burris (University of Wisconsin)
1986 Ernest R. Sears (University of Missouri-Columbia)
1987 Theodore O. Diener (University of Maryland)
1990 Jozef Stefaan Schell (Max Planck Institut)
1994/5 Perry L. Adkisson (Texas A & M University)

Chemistry

1978 Carl Djerassi (Stanford University)
1979 Herman F. Mark (Polytechnic Institute of New York)
1981 Joseph Chatt (University of Sussex, England)
1982 John C. Polanyi (University of Toronto) and George C. Pimentel (University of California, Berkeley)
1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Hardem M. McConnell (Stanford University)
1984/5 Rudolph A. Marcus (California Institute of Technology)
1986 Albert Eschenmoser (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
1987 Sir David C. Phillips (Oxford University, England)
1988 Joshua Jortner (Tel Aviv University ) and Raphael David Levine (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
1989 Duilio Arigoni (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Alan R. Battersby (University of Cambridge)
1991 Richard R. Ernst (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and Alexander Pines (University of California, Berkeley)
1992 John A. Pople (Northwestern University)
1993 Ahmed H. Zewail (California Institute of Technology)
1994/5 Richard A. Lerner (Scripps Research Institute) and Peter G. Schultz (University of California, Berkeley)
1995/6 Gilbert Stork (Columbia University) and Samuel J. Danishefsky (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
1998 Gerhard Ertl (Fritz Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft) and Gabor A. Somorjai (University of California, Berkeley)
2000 F. Albert Cotton (Texas A & M University)
2001 K. Barry Sharpless (Scripps Research Institute)

Mathematics

1978 Israel M. Gelfand (Moscow State University)
1979 Jean Leray (College de France)
1980 Henri Cartan (Université de Paris-Sud) and Andrei N. Kolmogorov (Moscow State University)
1981 Oscar Zariski (Harvard University)
1983/4 Shiing S. Chern (University of California, Berkeley) and Paul Erdos (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira (Gakushuin University, Japan) and Hans Lewy (University of California, Berkeley)
1986 Samuel Eilenberg (Columbia University) and Atle Selberg (Institute for Advanced Study)
1987 Peter D. Lax (New York University)
1988 Friedrich Hirzebruch (Max Planck Institut) and Lars Hormander (University of Lund, Sweden)
1989 Alberto P. Calderon (University of Chicago)
1992 Lennart A.E. Carleson (Department of Mathematics, KTH, Sweden)
1993 Michael Gromov (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France) and Jacques Tits (College de France)
1994/5 Jurgen K. Moser (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
1995/6 Robert Langlands (Institute for Advanced Study) and Andrew J. Wiles (Princeton University)
1996/7 Joseph B. Keller (Stanford University)
2000 Raoul Bott (Harvard University)and Jean-Pierre Serre (College de France)
2001 Vladimir I. Arnold (Moscow State University) and Saharon Shelah (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Medicine

1978 Jean Dausset (College de France)
1980 César Milstein (Medical Research Council Lab of Molecular Biology)
1981 Stanley N. Cohen (Stanford University)
1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur, France ) and Solomon H. Snyder (Johns Hopkins University)
1984/5 Donald F. Steiner (University of Chicago)
1986 Osamu Hayaishi (Osaka Medical College, Japan)
1987 Pedro Cuatrecasas (University of California, San Diego)
1988 Elizabeth F. Neufeld (University of California, Los Angeles)
1989 John B. Gurdon (Wellcome CRC Institute) and Edward B. Lewis (California Institute of Technology)
1990 Maclyn McCarty (Rockefeller University)
1991 Seymour Benzer (California Institute of Technology)
1994/5 Sir Michael J. Berridge (The Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge) and Yasutomi Nishizuka (University of Kobe, Japan)
1995/6 Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco)
1996/7 Mary Frances Lyon (MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit)
1998 Michael Sela (Weizmann Institute of Science)
2001 Alexander Varshavsky (California Institute of Technology)

Physics

1980 Michael E. Fisher (University of Maryland ) and Leo P. Kadanoff (University of Maryland) and Kenneth G. Wilson (Ohio State University)
1981 Freeman J. Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study ) and Victor F. Weisskopf (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
1982 Leon M. Lederman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) and Martin M. Perl (Stanford University)
1984/5 Philippe Nozières (Institut Laue-Langevin, France)
1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum (Rockefeller University) and Albert J. Libchaber (Rockefeller University)
1987 Bruno B. Rossi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Riccardo Giacconi (Associated Universities, Inc.)
1988 Stephen W. Hawking (University of Cambridge)
1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (College de France) and David J. Thouless (University of Washington)
1991 Maurice Goldhaber (Brookhaven National Laboratory) and Valentine L. Telegdi (Centre Europeen la Recherche Nucleaire, Switzerland)
1992 Joseph H. Taylor (Princeton University)
1993 Benoit B. Mandelbrot (Yale University)
1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Russian Academy of Sciences, P.N. Lebedev Institute) and Yoichiro Nambu (University of Chicago)
1996/7 John Archibald Wheeler (Princeton University)
2000 Raymond Davis, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)

Arts

1981 Antoni Tapies (Barcelona, Spain)
1984/5 Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastian, Spain)
1986 Jasper Johns (Sharon, Connecticut)
1988 Fumihiko Maki (Maki and Associates) and Giancarlo DeCarlo (University of Venice, Venice, Italy)
1989 Claus T. Oldenburg (New York, New York)
1991 Luciano Berio (Sienna, Italy)
1992 Frank O. Gehry (Frank O. Gehry & Associates)
1993 Bruce Nauman (Galisteo, New Mexico)
1995/6 Gyorgy Ligeti (Hamburg, Germany)
2000 Pierre Boulez (IRCAM)
2001 Alvaro Siza (Alvaro Siza-Arquitecto, LDA)

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