The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2005 will be awarded to Prof. Gregory Daniel Klepner
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics will be awarded jointly to Professor Gregory A. Margolis, and Professor Sergey P. Novikov
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The Wolf Prize in Physics will be awarded this year to Professor Daniel Kleppner from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
"For groundbreaking contributions in the atomic physics of hydrogen systems, including the research on the hydrogen stream, Rydberg atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation", stated the judges in this field. He will receive the award in the amount of 100,000 dollars from the President of the State, Moshe Katsav, in a state ceremony, which will be held in the Knesset, on May 22, 2005.
The 2005 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, also in the amount of $100,000, is awarded jointly to Professor Gregory A. Margulis, from Yale University, New Haven, USA, "for his monumental contributions to algebra and especially to the theory of lattices in groups Semi-simplicities with amazing uses in ergodic theory, representation theory, number theory, combinatorics and measure theory", and to Professor Sergey P. Novikov from the University of Maryland, USA, and from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia.
Daniel Klefner:
Daniel Klefner, born in 1932, USA, has made fundamental and important contributions to atomic physics and quantum optics using hydrogen and hydrogen-like alkali atoms in the last 45 years. He built innovative instrumentation, performed spectroscopic measurements with unprecedented precision and studied new quantum phenomena. Klepner received a doctorate in 1959 from Harvard University, USA, where he served as an associate professor between 1962 and 1966.
From 1966 to the present, Daniel Klepner serves as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the USA.
Gregory A. Margolis:
Gregory A. Margolis, born in 1946, Soviet Union, received a PhD in 1970 from the University of Moscow. In the years 1970-1991 he was active in the Institute for Information Transfer Problems, Moscow, and since 1991 Margolis has been a professor of mathematics at Yale University, USA.
"Margolis' work is characterized by unusual depth, technical ability and an original combination of ideas and methods from completely different surfaces in mathematics and architecture that brings everything together towards the final form. The solutions he proposed to the deep problems he solved represent new and broad conceptual thinking and unexpected uses in other areas. He is one of the giants of mathematics in the last half century," the judges' committee noted.
Sergey P. Novikov:
Sergey P. Novikov, born in 1936, Soviet Union, received a doctorate in 1964 from the Staklov Institute of Mathematics, Moscow. From 1971, Novikov served as chief researcher at the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia, and from 1992 as a professor at the University of Maryland, USA. "Novikov made substantial and wonderful contributions to two completely different areas, and at the same time he is one of the rare mathematicians who connects deep and central mathematical ideas to fundamental and difficult problems in physics in an amazing way that fascinates mathematicians and physicists alike" stated the judges. Novikov is a member of the Academy of Sciences, Russia, and a non-member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Crew Wolf:
The Wolf Foundation was founded by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born Jew, inventor, philanthropist and diplomat, who lived for many years in Cuba, served as Fidel Castro's ambassador to Israel and lived there until his death in 1981.
Five Wolf Prizes in the amount of $100,000 in each field have been awarded by the foundation every year since 1978 to scientists and artists from all over the world "for a unique contribution to humanity and to friendly relations between peoples, without distinction of citizenship, race, color, religion, sex or political opinion" .
In science the fields are: agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, physics and medicine, and in art the fields are - in a three-year rotation: architecture, music, painting and sculpture. So far, 224 scientists and artists from 21 countries have received the prestigious award, including 14 from Israel.
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