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  Wolf Prize - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. 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.
The medicine prize is probably the third most prestigious, after the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wo/wolf_prize.html   (145 words)

  
 What the Bleep Do We Know!?™ - The Movie
Dr. Wolf's fascination with the world of physics began one afternoon as a child at a local matinee, when the newsreel revealed the awesome power and might of the world's first atomic explosion.
Wolf is best known for his contributions through technical papers and popular books, but he is frequently in demand as a lecturer, keynote speaker, and consultant to industry and the media.
Wolf is well known for his simplification of the new physics and is perhaps best known as the author of Taking the Quantum Leap, which, in 1982, was the recipient of the prestigious National Book Award for Science.
www.whatthebleep.com /scientist   (4877 words)

  
 Kirsch Foundation Previous Investigators
She is an elected fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the Royal Society of London (1992), the American Academy of Microbiology (1993), and the Institute of Medicine (2000).
After a medicine internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and psychiatry residency at the University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute, she carried out postdoctoral work on the neurophysiology of the songbird brain at the California Institute of Technology, with Mark Konishi.
She initiated her research on chromosomes as an Independent Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and joined the faculty in 1995; she is currently an Associate Professor of Developmental Biology, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Genetics.
www.kirschfoundation.org /how/investigators/previous.html   (8535 words)

  
 WORLD SCIENTISTS'WARNING TO HUMANITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
We are losing the potential they hold for providing medicinal and other benefits, and the contribution that genetic diversity of life forms gives to the robustness of the world's biological systems and to the astonishing beauty of the earth itself.
Robert Burris, Biochemist, Wolf Prize in Agriculture, USA
Shiing-Shen Chern, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, China and USA
www.eolss.net /worldwarning.aspx   (2967 words)

  
 TSRI - News & Views
Chisari, Vogt Elected to Institute of Medicine (11/03/03)
Kurt Wüthrich Wins 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Second Nobel Prize in a Row for TSRI (10/14/02)
Barry Sharpless is Awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (10/15/01)
www.scripps.edu /newsandviews/e_archive.html   (3879 words)

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