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	Wolf Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples", "irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views".
		Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel.
		The Wolf Prizes in mathematics, physics and chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields after the Nobel Prize or Fields Medal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolf_Prize (160 words)

	Wolf Prize -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living (A person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences) scientists and (The creation of beautiful or significant things) artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples", "irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views".
		The prize is awarded in (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former (A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Cuban ambassador to Israel.
		The Wolf Prizes in mathematics, physics and chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields after the (An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace) Nobel Prize or (additional info and facts about Fields Medal) Fields Medal.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wo/Wolf_Prize.htm (215 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)

	Ahmed H. Zewail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد زويل) (born February 26, 1946) is an Egyptian chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
		Born in Damanhur (60 km south-east of Alexandria) and raised in Disuq, he received his first degrees from the University of Alexandria before moving to the United States to complete his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Robin.M.Hochstrasser.
		Other international awards have included the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1993) and the Robert A. Welch Award (1997).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmed_Zewail (409 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 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.
		Zare is the third member of the Stanford chemistry faculty, along with Carl Djerassi (1978) and Harden McConnell (1984), to receive the Wolf Prize in chemistry.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2005/february2/wolf-020205.html (470 words)

	Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interestof mankind and friendly relations among peoples".
		The prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-borninventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel.It is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and an Arts prize that rotates annually between architecture, music,painting and sculpture.
		The Wolf Prizes in mathematics, physics and chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields afterthe Nobel Prize or FieldsMedal.
	www.therfcc.org /wolf-prize-157871.html (133 words)

	CJNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		This week, Lemieux was to be presented with the prestigious Wolf Prize in chemistry by Israeli President Ezer Weizman, at a special ceremony at the Knesset.
		The Wolf Prize was established in 1978 by the late German-born Ricardo Wolf, who served for many years as the Cuban ambassador to Israel.
		Moshe Schnitzer, a recent recipient of the Wolf Prize for his work in soil chemistry, was also recognized by Rothschild at the luncheon.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/99/may6-99/front2.htm (388 words)

	Tanksley wins Wolf Prize
		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.
		The prizes are intended to promote science and art for the benefit of humanity, and prize winners are selected by international committees of three renowned experts in each field.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/1.22.04/Tanksley-Wolf_Prize.html (766 words)

	C&EN: TODAY'S HEADLINES - Harry Gray Wins Wolf Prize In Chemistry
		he 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Harry B. Gray, the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute at California Institute of Technology.
		Gray is being recognized for pioneering work in bioinorganic chemistry--specifically, for contributions to unraveling novel principles of structure and long-range electron-transfer processes in proteins.
		The $100,000 prize will be presented by Israel's president at a special ceremony at the Israeli Parliament in May.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/topstory/8204/8204notw5.html (227 words)

	ICDA News: Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The Wolf Prize in Agriculture went to Professor Roger N. Beachy, 56, from the Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, and to Professor James E. Womack, 60, Texas A&M University, USA, for the use of recombinant DNA technology to revolutionize plant and animal sciences.
		The Prize in Chemistry was shared by Professor Henri B. Kagan, 70, from University of Paris-South, France; Professor Ryoji Noyori, 62, from Nagoya University, Japan, and Professor K. Barry Sharpless, 60, from Scripps Research Institute, California, USA, for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing methods for the synthesis of chiral molecules.
		The Wolf Prize in Arts (this year Architecture) is conferred upon Architect Alvaro Siza, 67, of Porto, Portugal, for the critical relevance of his typically responsive architecture to the continual transformation of both landscape and urban fabric.
	www.icda.org /news/wolf05_16.html (273 words)

	02.04.98 - Somorjai Wins Wolf Prize in Chemistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born diplomat and philanthropist who emigrated 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 chemistry, physics, medicine, agriculture, mathematics and the arts.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/1998/0204/somorjai.html (387 words)

	Encyclopedia: Wolf Prize in Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo...
		Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 1978 Carl Djerassi 1979 Herman F. Mark 1980 Henry Eyring 1981 Joseph Chatt 1982 John C. Polanyi, George C. Pimentel 1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky, Harden M. McConnell, John A. Waugh 1984/5 Rudolph A. Marcus 1986 Elias James Corey, Albert Eschenmoser...
		Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1978 George D. Snell, Jean Dausset, Jon J. van Rood 1979 Roger W. Sperry, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz 1980 Cesar Milstein, Leo Sachs, Sir James L. Gowans 1981 Barbara McClintock, Stanley N. Cohen 1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux, Solomon H. Snyder, Sir James...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wolf-Prize-in-Mathematics (1296 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 /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/00/020800-15.html (666 words)

	Princeton - PWB 020199 - Stein wins Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Princeton faculty have now won the Wolf Prize in mathematics for each of the last three years it was given.
		The 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, math, medicine and physics.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/pwb/99/0201/wolf.htm (390 words)

	Archinect : News : Nouvel wins Wolf Prize
		The Wolf Prize rotates annually among architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.
		"His research also initiated the development of a series of novel techniques in applied physical chemistry, that subsequently became indispensable to progress in chemical and biochemical analysis, particularly in relation to detection at the single-molecule, area-selective, and sub-cellular levels," it was stated.
		The Israel-based Wolf Foundation was established by the late German-born inventor, diplomat and philanthropist, Dr. Ricardo Wolf.
	www.archinect.com /news/article.php?id=13322_0_24_0_C (500 words)

	Cotton To Receive Wolf Prize Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The award, which many view as approaching the Nobel Prize in stature, is given annually in four of five areas - math, chemistry, physics, agriculture and medicine - in rotation and includes a $100,000 stipend.
		The Wolf Prize jury said that through his work Cotton has made an indelible mark on inorganic chemistry and chemistry as a whole.
		His extensive research in metallic chemistry, where he discovered the phenomena of double, triple and quadruple metal-metal bonding, is a significant contribution to chemistry and has impacted biochemistry, chemical engineering, physics and molecular biology, as well.
	www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/00/051700-7.html (262 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)

	Theoretical chemist wins Hirschfelder prize (Oct 7, 1999)
		Joshua Jortner, a prolific and accomplished physical chemist from Tel Aviv University, is the recipient of the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry.
		The Hirschfelder Prize is among the largest awards in the field of theoretical chemistry.
		It is given annually by the Theoretical Chemistry Institute and the Department of Chemistry and carries with it a stipend of $10,000.
	www.news.wisc.edu /2000.html (284 words)

	People - March/April 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Gabor Somorjai, University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Gerhard Ertl, Fritz-Haber Institute, Max-Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin, are winners of the 1998 Wolf Prize in chemistry for outstanding contributions to the field of surface science in general and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular.
		Wolf was recognized for nearly 50 years of pioneering contributions, in a two-day American Chemical Society meeting symposium.
		Wolf's work laid the foundation for many of the nuclear medicine and medical imaging procedures performed in the world today that help save thousands of lives each year.
	www.pnl.gov /er_news/04_98/people.htm (1467 words)

	INTERNATIONAL WOLF PRIZE SHARED BY TEXAS A&M RESEARCHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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)

	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)

	$100,000 Award: Chemists Stork, Danishefsky Win Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		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.
		The Wolf Foundation, endowed by diplomat and philanthropist Ricardo Wolf and his wife, Francisca, since 1978 has awarded annual prizes in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics, and has rotated an annual arts prize among the disciplines of music, painting, sculpture and architecture.
		Announcement of the Wolf Prize in chemistry had been scheduled for Nov. 6, but was postponed after the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Nov. 4, said Yaron Gruder, director general of the Foundation.
	columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss10/record2110.14.html (797 words)

	STANFORD UNIVERSITY / Chemistry professor wins Wolf Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Richard Zare, a Stanford chemistry professor whose research probes the reactions inside cells, has won the annual Wolf Prize, one of the highest international awards in science and the arts.
		The Wolf Prize is given annually by the Wolf Foundation of Israel.
		The chemistry of biological molecules has long intrigued Zare, and he and his colleagues were among the first to analyze the organic compounds detected nearly 10 years ago in a Martian meteorite that NASA scientists had said contained fossils of ancient microbes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/26/BABADIGEST2.DTL (177 words)

	Wolf Prize - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Wolf Prize - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel.
		Each prize consists of a diploma and USD$100,000.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wolf_Prize (180 words)

	C&EN: Latest News - Richard Zare Wins 2005 Wolf Prize
		Stanford University chemistry professor Richard N. Zare has been selected to receive the 2005 Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for "his ingenious applications of laser techniques for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules and their use in analytical chemistry."
		The $100,000 prize will be presented on May 22 by the president of Israel, Moshe Katsav, at a special ceremony at the Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem.
		The Wolf Prize jury notes that in making "seminal contributions" to the theory and practice of both physical and analytical chemistry, Zare has "profoundly influenced developments in these two areas of science.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/news/83/i04/8304wolfprize.html (302 words)

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