Awards & Winners

1981 Wolf Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1981 Wolf Prize. Check awards winners of 1981 Wolf Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Lars Ahlfors

(for seminal discoveries and the creation of powerful new methods in geometric function theory.)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics

Oscar Zariski

(creator of the modern approach to algebraic geometry, by its fusion with commutative algebra.)
Wolf Prize in Agriculture

John O. Almquist

(for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement.)
Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Henry A. Lardy

(for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice.)
Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Glenn W. Salisbury

(for his outstanding achievements in basic and applied research on artificial insemination.)
Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Joseph Chatt

(for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.)
Wolf Prize in Medicine

Barbara McClintock

(for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behaviour and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.)
Wolf Prize in Medicine

Stanley Norman Cohen

(for his concepts underlying genetic engineering; for constructing a biologically functional hybrid plasmid, and for achieving actual expression of a foreign gene implanted in E. coli by the recombinant DNA method.)
Wolf Prize in Physics

Freeman Dyson, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Gerard 't Hooft

(for their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of fields.)
Wolf Prize in Arts

Antoni Tàpies

(Painting)
Wolf Prize in Arts

Marc Chagall

(Painting)