Wolf Prize in Physics
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The Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists in the field of physics. The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf [1], a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel.
[edit] Laureates
- 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini
- 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson
- 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard 't Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin M. Perl
- 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn, Sir Peter B. Hirsch, Theodore H. Maiman
- 1984/5 Conyers Herring, Philippe Nozieres
- 1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Albert J. Libchaber
- 1987 Herbert Friedman, Bruno B. Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi
- 1988 Roger Penrose, Stephen W. Hawking
- 1989 Not awarded
- 1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, David J. Thouless
- 1991 Maurice Goldhaber, Valentine L. Telegdi
- 1992 Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
- 1993 Benoît Mandelbrot
- 1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Yoichiro Nambu
- 1995/6 Not awarded
- 1997 John Archibald Wheeler
- 1998 Yakir Aharonov, Sir Michael V. Berry
- 1999 Dan Shechtman
- 2000 Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba
- 2001 Not awarded
- 2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin, Anthony J. Leggett
- 2004 Robert Brout, François Englert, Peter W. Higgs
- 2005 Daniel Kleppner
