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	Wolf Prize
		The Wolf Prize was established in 1978 by German-born Ricardo Wolf and his wife Francisca Subirana-Wolf.
		Wolf, an inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, lived in Cuba for many years and served as Fidel Castro’s ambassador to Israel from 1961-1973.
		The Israel-based Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists, “for achievement in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.” The annual prizes of $100,000 are given in four out of five scientific fields in rotation: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Society_&_Culture/wolfprize.html (116 words)

	Bundle Research Group
		The Prize Committee unanimously decided that the 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry would be awarded to Raymond U. Lemieux, 78, Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada, "for his fundamental and seminal contributions to the study and synthesis of oligosaccharides and to the elucidation of their role in molecular recognition in biological systems."
		The Wolf Prize was established in 1978, by the late German-born Ricardo Wolf inventor, diplomat and philanthropist and his wife Francisca Subirana-Wolf.
		The Israel-based Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists, "for achievement in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples".
	www.chem.ualberta.ca /~glyco/news/wolfprize.htm (642 words)

	Tanksley wins Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CU's Steven Tanksley is a co-recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize
		Each year since 1978, the Wolf Foundation, which is based in Israel, has awarded five Wolf Prizes to outstanding living scientists in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics as well as one to a person in the arts.
		Five annual Wolf Prizes have been awarded since 1978 to outstanding scientists and artists "for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples, irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex, or political view." To date, 214 scientists and artists from 20 countries have been honored.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/1.22.04/Tanksley-Wolf_Prize.html (766 words)

	2005 Wolf Prize given to chemist Richard N. Zare
		The award was announced on Jan. 25 by the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation in recognition of Zare's "ingenious applications of laser techniques for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules and their use in analytical chemistry.
		The $100,000 prize will be presented to Zare by Moshe Katsav, president of Israel, during a ceremony at the Israeli Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem on May 22.
		The Wolf Foundation was established in 1976 by the German-born inventor and diplomat Ricardo Wolf, a long-time resident of Cuba who served as Cuba's ambassador to Israel, where he lived until his death in 1981.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/february2/wolf-020205.html (470 words)

	Illinois professor awarded the 2002/3 Wolf Prize in Physics
		He was cited in the announcement of the 1996 Nobel Prize in physics for assisting the prize winners in their interpretation of the experiments that led to a breakthrough in low-temperature physics.
		Based in Israel, the Wolf Foundation was established in 1976 by the late Ricardo Wolf, a German-born diplomat and philanthropist who immigrated to Cuba and served as Cuban ambassador to Israel, where he died in 1981.
		Wolf prizes are awarded annually in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, agriculture and the arts.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/03/0115leggett.html (337 words)

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		Among the prizes he won are the John Von Neumann Prize in 1986, the Prize of Japan in 1991, the Harvey Prize from Technion in 1991, the Daedalon Gold Medal for Science and Technology from Greece in 1991, and W T et Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1998.
		The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Sun-Yung Alice Chang for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.
		She was awarded the S V Kovalevsky prize in 1992, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn on 13 May 2002, and the Golden Lomonosov Medal, the Ioffe Medal, and the St Petersburg University Medal in 2003.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=prize*&CONTEXT=1 (15836 words)

	Ray Davis
		The Wolf Foundation has recognized the scientists "for their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of neutrinos, which created the emerging field of neutrino astronomy." The $100,000 prize, to be shared by the two scientists, will be conferred by the President of Israel, Ezer Weizman, at a special ceremony in Jerusalem on May 21.
		Issued by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, the $1,000 Pontecorvo Prize was awarded to Davis "for the outstanding achievement in development of the chlorine-argon method for detection of solar neutrinos." This method was invented by Pontecorvo and Davis further developed it.
		Wolf Prize co-recipient Masatoshi Koshiba led the design and construction of the Kamiokande detectors in Japan, which recorded the time of arrival, energy and direction of incoming neutrinos.
	www.bnl.gov /bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2000/bnlpr020400.html (735 words)

	Yale's Margulis wins 2005 Wolf prize for mathematics
		New Haven, Conn. -- The Prize Committee for Mathematics of the Wolf Foundation has unanimously selected Gregory A. Margulis, Erastus L. DeForest Professor of Mathematics at Yale as recipient of the 2005 Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his exceptional contributions to algebra and his creative synthesis of ideas and methods from different areas of mathematics.
		The Wolf Foundation was established in 1976 by Ricardo Wolf, inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, and his wife Francisca Subirana-Wolf, "to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind."
		Prize winners are selected by international committees of three renowned experts in each field.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-02/yu-ymw022605.php (378 words)

	INTERNATIONAL WOLF PRIZE SHARED BY TEXAS A&M RESEARCHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Wolf Prize is given through a foundation established by the late Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist.
		The Wolf Prize is given annually in rotation among five areas: agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics.
		Bazer and Roberts were named for their discoveries of "interferontau and other pregnancy- associated proteins which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to establish and maintain pregnancy." The two collaborated on the research for 16 years while at the University of Florida.
	agnews.tamu.edu /dailynews/stories/ANSC/Jan1003b.htm (455 words)

	Kleppner awarded international Wolf Prize for physics - MIT News Office
		Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, was cited by the foundation for making "fundamental contributions to atomic physics and quantum optics, mainly using hydrogen and hydrogen-like atoms.
		Wolf Prizes have been awarded since 1978 to outstanding scientists and artists "for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples, irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex or political view."
		The prizes are given every year in four out of five scientific fields, in rotation (agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics), as well as an arts field.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2005/wolf.html (382 words)

	Texas A&M To Honor Al Cotton On Feb. 14
		The Wolf Prize, now viewed by many scholars as approaching the stature of the Nobel Prize, includes a $100,000 stipend and is one of the largest awards of its type ever presented to a member of the Texas A&M faculty.
		The Wolf Prize jury, in citing Cotton for the award, said that "he is the pre-eminent inorganic chemist in the world.
		The prize jury also wrote that Cotton's extensive body of work in the chemistry of metallic elements, where he discovered the existence of double, triple and quadruple metal-metal bonds, is a major contribution to the field of chemistry.
	www.tamu.edu /aggiedaily/news/stories/00/020800-15.html (666 words)

	Bellwether 56: Ralph Brinster a Recipient of Wolf Prize in Medicine
		The Wolf Prize Jury cited him “for the development of procedures to manipulate mouse ova and embryos, which has enabled transgenesis and its applications in mice.” Dr. Brinster shares the prize with two other scientists, Dr. Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina, and Dr. Mario R. Capecchi, of the University of Utah.
		The Wolf Prize in Medicine has been awarded since 1978 “for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples, irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex, or political view.” There is also a prize in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, physics and the arts.
		The 2002-03 Wolf Prizes will be conferred by the Israeli President Moshe Katsav at a special ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 11, 2003.
	www.vet.upenn.edu /schoolresources/communications/publications/bellwether/56/brinster.html (351 words)

	capecchi: University of Utah News Release: January 24, 2003
		He'll share the Wolf Prize with two other distinguished researchers--Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina and Ralph R. Brinster of the University of Pennsylvania.
		The Wolf Prize was established in 1978 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor, "for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among people, irrespective of nationality, race, color, religion, sex or political view." The prize is awarded each year in four of five scientific fields: agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and
		In May, he'll travel to Trento to receive the cash prize from the Pezcoller Foundation, then to Israel where he'll receive the Wolf Prize from the president of Israel, Moshe Katsav, in a ceremony scheduled for May 11.
	www.utah.edu /news/releases/03/jan/capecchi.html (860 words)

	Wolf prize
		The 2005 Wolf prize for physics has been awarded to Daniel Kleppner of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for "ground-breaking work in the atomic physics of hydrogenic systems, including research on the hydrogen maser, Rydberg atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation".
		The prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, is often thought to be the most prestigious prize in physics after the Nobel prize.
		I'd heard about the Wolf prize last year in reference to Mathematics since there's no Nobel prize for Mathematics.
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2005/01/wolf-prize.html (129 words)

	Bott Wins Israel's Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics
		The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics.
		His first major contribution was the application of Morse theory to the topology of Lie groups, which led to the famous "periodicity theorems." He was a major contributor to the development of K-theory and also worked on Yang-Mills theory, moduli spaces of vector bundles, and elliptic genera.
		In the arts, the prize is given in one of four rotating categories: architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/03.09/bott.html (461 words)

	Stein earns award for math research,By MOREY BARNES,Tuesday, February 2, 1999
		The prize was established in 1978 by Ricardo Wolf, an Israeli diplomat.
		According to Sarnak, two prizes are usually awarded each year for mathematics, and the research areas of the two winners are usually related in some manner, though such a connection is not a requirement for the selection committee.
		According to Stein, the Schock Prize, which is awarded every two years, is a general recognition similar to the Wolf Prize and is given in a number of disciplines.
	www.dailyprincetonian.com /Content/1999/02/02/news/barnes.html (625 words)

	Juilliard \| The Juilliard Journal Online
		It is Israel's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
		When the prize recipients were announced in the early spring, there were some government officials who threatened to boycott the ceremony.
		On a large stage in a lobby directly outside the Knesset were all the prize recipients (a total of about 10), the board of the Wolf Foundation, and two major political figures in Israel: Moshe Katsav, Israel's president, and Limor Livnat, the minister of education, culture, and sport.
	www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles314.html (1126 words)

	ipedia.com: Abel Prize Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Abel Prize is awarded annually by the King of Norway to outstanding mathematicians.
		The reason for this prize is that the Nobel Prize excludes mathematics.
		Norway gave the prize an initial funding of NOK 200,000,000 in 2001.
	www.ipedia.com /abel_prize.html (310 words)

	Weinberg wins Wolf Prize - MIT News Office
		Professor of Biology Robert A. Weinberg shares the 2004 Wolf Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking discoveries in molecular oncology.
		The $100,000 prize was awarded jointly to Weinberg, who is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Roger Yonchien Tsien of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California at San Diego.
		According to the the Israel-based Wolf Foundation Council, "Weinberg is recognized as one of the major contributors to our understanding of the origins of cancer in human beings.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/weinberg-0128.html (302 words)

	ILSI - Israel Life Science Industry - Hebrew University Professor Wins Wolf Prize in Medicine for Work in Cancer ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All three recipients were awarded the prize for their research in cancer development and treatment.
		The Wolf Prize is recognized as being among the world's most prestigious prizes in science and the arts.
		The Wolf Prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation, established by the late German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, Dr. Ricardo Wolf.
	www.ilsi.org.il /news_item.asp?ID=4 (402 words)

	Cornell News: Tanksley wins Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cornell plant breeder Steven Tanksley is a co-recipient of the international Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture
		The prizes are intended to promote science and art for the benefit of mankind, and prize winners are selected by international committees of three renowned experts in each field.
		Tanksley also was cited by the Wolf Prize Committee as "one of the world leaders in plant genomic research.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Jan04/Tanksley.wolf.ssl.html (709 words)

	DanforthCenter.org
		Womack, 59, of Texas A&M University, "for the use of recombinant DNA technology to revolutionize the plant (Beachy) and animal sciences (Womack)," stated the Wolf Prize Jury in this field.
		The Wolf Foundation's mission to promote science for the benefit of mankind is closely aligned with both Dr. Beachy's personal vision as well as with the mission he is working to implement at the Danforth Plant Science Center." The Wolf Foundation was established by the late German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, Dr. Ricardo Wolf.
		The 2001 Wolf Prizes will be conferred by the President of the State of Israel, Mr.
	www.danforthcenter.org /newsmedia/NewsDetail.asp?nid=53 (403 words)

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