Wolf Prize in Chemistry

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The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.
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The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. Dr. Ricardo Wolf was the founder of the Wolf Foundation. He was a German-born inventor, diplomat, philanthropist and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. For many years, he...

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Year Award Winner Notes/Description
  • 1998
  • for "their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surface in particular."
  • 1986
  • for outstanding research on the synthesis of many highly complex natural products and the demonstration of novel ways of thinking about such syntheses.
  • 2006
  • for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.
  • 1978
  • for his work in bioorganic chemistry, application of new spectroscopic techniques, and his support of international cooperation.
  • 1979
  • for his contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of natural and synthetic polymers.
  • 1980
  • for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes.
  • 1981
  • for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.
  • 1982
  • for his studies of chemical reactions in unprecedented detail by developing the infrared chemiluminiscence technique, and for envisaging the chemical laser.
  • 1982
  • for development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers.
  • 1983
  • for his pioneering work in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.
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