Wolf Prize Winners 2023

February 13, 2023

The Wolf prize is presented by the Wolf Foundation of Israel. It is being awarded since 1978. The Wolf Prizes are presented to scientists and artists. It was founded by a German Ricardo Wolf. He was an ambassador to Israel. The awards are presented in six fields namely arts, physics, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, and medicine. The Arts Wolf Prize rotates between music, painting, architecture, and sculpture.

Prize Money

The winners get 100,000 USD. The award presentation ceremony is held in Knesset, the Parliament of Israel. It is said that the award is presented annually. However, it is not so. Between 2000 and 2010 only six Wolf Prizes were awarded and only 4 prizes were awarded in Physics. Of all the Wolf Prizes, Physics and Chemistry are the most prestigious.

Wolf Prize Winners 2023

Medicine: Professor Daniel Drucker of Toronto University, Canada; for his research on intestinal hormones
Agriculture: Martinus Th Rien from the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro; for his research on water flow and contaminant transport in soils
Physics: Professor Can Genuchten; for his work in soil physics and Vadose zone; the Vadose zone lies above the groundwater table
Chemistry: three scientists for their work on pathological dysfunctions of RNA; John T Wilson, Hiroaki Suga, Jeffery W Kelly
Mathematics: Ingrid Daubechies of Duke University; for her work in wavelet theory
Arts: Fujiko Nakaya of Japan and Richard Long of England

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