Awards & Winners

1998 Wolf Prize

Check winners and nominations of 1998 Wolf Prize. Check awards winners of 1998 Wolf Prize. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Gabor A. Somorjai, Gerhard Ertl

(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 surfaces in particular.)
Wolf Prize in Physics

Yakir Aharonov, Michael Berry

(For the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase, and their incorporation into many fields of physics.)
Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Ilan Chet, Baldur R. Stefansson

(For the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the Aharonov-Bohm effect, the Berry phase, and their incorporation into many fields of physics.)
Wolf Prize in Medicine

Michael Sela, Ruth Arnon

(For their major discoveries in the field of immunology.)
Wolf Prize in Arts

James Turrell

(Sculpture - for His highly individualistic imagery is a spiritualized synthesis of form and light in seemingly infinite space.)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics