Wolf Prize

Illustrated portrait of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Henri Kagan

"Kagan should have received the Nobel Prize in 2001": Two Israeli researchers on Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai

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Ehud Keinan and Meir Lahav tell Hayadan about Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai, the Wolf Prize and the 2001 Nobel Prize, and the scientific work now being recognized.

When Molecules Choose Sides: The Scientific Explanation for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Chirality

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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai showed how a small difference between molecules that are mirror images can be amplified until one form dominates the product—an important achievement for drug production and for studying the directionality of life's molecules.
A gloved hand holds a thin perovskite solar module in the laboratory.

Towards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Three Breakthroughs Still Awaiting the Prize

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Next-generation DNA sequencing, advanced solar cells, and carbon-nitrogen bond-building reactions: CAS team of scientists points to achievements that have already transformed research, but have yet to receive Nobel recognition for their development
Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, winner of the 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

From DNA reading to atomic clocks: The other six winners of the 2026 Wolf Prize

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The Wolf Prizes in medicine, chemistry and physics recognize research into the sense of taste, methods for sequencing DNA and advances in controlling cold atoms.
Prof. David Kashdan, Hebrew University. From Wikipedia

Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2026 to two researchers from Israel: David Kashdan and Yosef Bernstein

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The Wolf Foundation announced that David Kazhdan and Joseph Bernstein had won the prize for their contributions to representation theory and the connections between algebra, geometry, and number theory.
Prof. Jaynandra K. Jain at the Wolf Prize Ceremony in the Knesset

Wolf Prize winner Jainendra Jain in a special interview: How entangled electrons became composite fermions

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The Wolf Prize laureate in physics explains how the idea of ​​composite fermions solved the mystery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, what the connection is between his theory and the experiments of Motti Heiblom and James Eisenstein, and why he accepted it.
He has won many awards for his scientific work, including the Israel Prize and the Wolf Prize. Meir Wilczek in the laboratory | Photo: Kobi Kalmanovich, A.M.T. Prize, Wikipedia

The scientist with a connection to life: 90th anniversary of Meir Wilczek, the Holocaust survivor who conquered the world of biochemistry

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From a hungry child who wandered through camps, exile, and kolkhozes in Kyrgyzstan – to a leading scientist at the Weizmann Institute, developer of affinity chromatography and the avidin-biotin system, winner of the Israel Prize and the Wolf Prize: Prof. Meir Wilczek celebrates 90 and continues
Prof. Rafi Bistritzer. Photo: Tel Aviv University Spokesperson

Podcast: Prof. Rafi Bistritzer on the "magic angle" in graphene and the birth of the field of twistronics

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Tel Aviv 360 Podcast: The 2020 Wolf Prize laureate in Physics talks about the discovery that changed the world of two-dimensional materials, and his new research into acousto-electric superlattices
Prof. Dan Schachman, who serves as Chairman of the Wolf Prize Foundation, Prof. Moti Haiblum, President of the State Yitzhak Herzog and Minister of Education Yoav Kish. Photo by Press Office, Wolf Prize Foundation

Wolf Prize in Physics for 2025: Recognition of quantum computing researchers, including Prof. Motti Heiblum of the Weizmann Institute

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Prof. Jayendra Jain, Prof. Moti Haiblum and Prof. James Eisenstein won the prestigious award for their contributions to understanding the unique properties of two-dimensional electron systems in strong magnetic fields, and in particular in studying the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Jeffrey Dangle, Brian Stacekevich and Jonathan Jones. Photos: Wolf Prize Foundation

Wolf Prize in Agriculture 2025: Recognizing groundbreaking discoveries in the plant immune system

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The prize is awarded jointly to Professors Jeffrey Dangle, Jonathan Jones and Brian Stacekevich.
Prof. Pamela Bjorkman wins the 2025 Wolf Prize in Medicine. Photo: Wolf Prize Foundation

Wolf Prize in Medicine 2025: Recognition of Prof. Pamela Bjorkman for her pioneering contributions to the understanding of viral defense mechanisms

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Prof. Pamela Bjorkman from the California Institute of Technology won the prestigious award for developing innovative antibody-focused approaches to combat viruses and establishing an infrastructure for advanced vaccine research.
Prof. Dan Shechtman, Minister of Education Yoav Kish, President Yitzhak Herzog and Wolf Foundation CEO Reut Yinon Berman

Winners of the 2025 Wolf Prize in Science and Architecture announced

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Genetic improvement of crops. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Wolf Prize in Agriculture to three winners for major discoveries in developmental biology of plants that contribute to crop improvement

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The winners are Professor Elliot M. Elliot Meyerowitz from Caltech and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA, Professor Joanne Chory from the Salk Institute, USA, and Professor Venkatesan "Sundar"
Prof. Adi Shamir. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2024 is awarded jointly to Professors Adi Shamir and Noga Alon

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"For their pioneering contributions to mathematical cryptography, combinatorics and the theory of computer science."
The 2023 Wolf Prize winners at a ceremony at the Knesset building together with President Yitzhak Herzog, Minister of Education Yoav Kish and Chairman of the Wolf Prize Foundation Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

The Wolf Prizes in Science and Art for 2023 were awarded at the Knesset

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Eight winners and trailblazing winners from five countries received the Wolf Prizes for the Arts and Sciences last night. The prestigious Wolf Prize, known as the second most important prize in the world after the Nobel Prize, was awarded this year in the fields of chemistry, medicine,
Chuan He, winner of the 2023 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, photo courtesy of the Prize Committee

Wolf Prize in Chemistry for 2023 to three researchers who studied RNA

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The winners are: Chuan Ha, University of Chicago, USA, Jeffrey Kelly, Scripps Research Institute, USA, Hiroaki Shuga, University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof. Ingrid Dubshy, Duke University. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

Wolf Prize in Mathematics for the year 2023 to Prof. Ingrid Dubshey, the discoverer of the connection between quantum physics and shrinking data files

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The award is given for her work in wavelet theory and applied harmonic analysis.
Prof. Daniel Yehoshua Drucker, winner of the 2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine. Courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

Wolf Prize for Medicine to the researcher who discovered a target in the body for a drug against diabetes and obesity

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The winners from the Krill Prize award ceremony with Prof. Dan Shechtman and wife Yinon Berman, CEO of the Wolf Foundation. Photo: Lior Daskal, Zog Productions

The Wolf Foundation has awarded the 2022 Creel Prizes for Scientific Excellence to ten young scientists

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Among this year's prize winners: researchers who have developed new treatment strategies for cancer, Alzheimer's and autism spectrum disorders; A researcher examining the formation of bacteria in babies and their health effects; and researchers whose discoveries are applied in the field of cryptocurrencies
Rice field in Yangshuo Gulin, China. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Wolf Prize in Agriculture for improving rice resistance

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The Wolf Prize in Agriculture for 2022 was awarded to Prof. Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis - for her pioneering work in researching rice disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance
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2022 Wolf Prize in Physics for the developers of attosecond physics

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The Wolf Prize in Physics for 2022 was awarded to Professors: Anne L'Houlier, Lund University in Sweden; Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa; Franz Krauss, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for pioneering work
Mathematical representation of data. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Prof. George Lustick of MIT has won the 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics

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The 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Prof. George Lustig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his pioneering contributions to modern representation theory and related fields
Immune system cells fight viruses. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry promotes the understanding of the chemistry of intercellular communication

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The laureates also worked on inventing chemical methods to study the role of carbohydrates, fats and proteins in these biological processes.
From right to left: Reut Yinon Berman - CEO of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Dan Shechtman - Chairman of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Giorgio Farizzi, Rector Antonella Polimani, Dror Idar - Israeli Ambassador to Italy

Nobel followed Wolf again in the same year: and this time Prof. Giorgio Frisi

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The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded today to Prof. Giorgio Parisi is just a small number of the names of Nobel Prize winners over the years, who previously won the prestigious Wolf Prize, of the Wolf Foundation.
Sandy Sherman and CEO of the Wolf Foundation Reot Yanon-Berman. Photo: The Wolf Foundation

The Great World Journey for the Wolf Foundation Awards

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After two years in a row in which it was not possible to hold the Wolf Prize awarding ceremony in the Knesset, the foundation's senior officials, led by the Chairman Prof. Dan Shechtman and the Executive Director Reut Yeinon-Berman, traveled around the world and held ceremonies in the universities of
crystals. Photo: depositphotos.com

Prof. Leslie Lazerovitz and Meir Lahav Moitzman won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2021

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Fractal. Photo: depositphotos.com

Wolf Prize in Physics for 2021 to Professor Giorgio Frisi, researcher of disordered systems

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MicroRNA. Illustration: Prof. Robert Johnson, Temple University

Deepening our knowledge in understanding the RNA molecule allowed us to produce a rapid vaccine for Corona

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This is according to the decision of the Wolf Prize Committee for 2021 in medicine. The judges' announcement said that these scientists made breakthrough discoveries in the mechanisms that regulate RNA and demonstrated that RNA is not a passive template between
President Reuven Rivlin opens the event announcing the Wolf Prize winners with the heads of the Wolf Foundation. Photo: Mark Neiman - to p

Pioneers in the field of RNA, physicists from the Weizmann Institute and the musician Stevie Wonder among the Wolf Prize winners

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Due to the spread of the Corona epidemic, this year, for the first time since 1978, the award ceremony will not be held in the Mishkan of the Israel Knesset, and unusually, the award is expected to be given by the Wolf Foundation at the residence of the award winners
A photo of Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking winning the Wolf Prize at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Photo credit: Wolf Foundation

Nobel laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman: "Penrose has an indirect connection to my discovery" The winners in chemistry developed an "explosive" in biology

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Prof. Shechtman, chairman of the Wolf Foundation, also tells about the ratio of one-third of the Wolf Prize winners in the respective fields who later win Nobel Prizes, and why there are such large differences in the gaps. Crisper, like nitroglycerin, can be used
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 was awarded to the scientists who developed the "genetic numbers" CRISPR immediately after winning the Wolff

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Since dark energy is the densest factor in cosmic space, it has the greatest influence on the universe and will determine its fate. But it wasn't always this dark energy that determined things. The other components of the universe, such as radiation (light) and matter (including atoms and normal matter, but also dark matter, were the dominant factors when the universe was young and small, because they were much denser. However, as the universe expanded, radiation and matter became more sparse and the influence of energy Darkness has overcome their influence. If the density of dark energy continues to increase, it may reach such a power that it will tear apart all existing structures in the universe. Image: Ann Feild (STScI).

The Wolf Foundation has announced the ten brides and grooms of the 2020 Krill Prize for young Israeli researchers

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Rafi Bistritzer, Wolf Prize Winners in Physics: I knew the work I did with MacDonald was making a buzz, but I didn't know how much

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Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The Crisper keys win the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine - the reasons for the prize committee

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Members of the Wolff Committee with the President and the Minister of Education at the event announcing the winners for 2020. Photo: David Salem

The Crisper Keys, an Israeli who co-authored a basic article on nanotechnology and understanding the process of plant growth - among the fields whose discoverers won the Wolf Prize

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Prof. Jeffrey Friedman of Rockefeller University, winner of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Medicine. PR photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

The Wolf Prize winners for 2019 have been announced and among them is a hormone responsible for obesity

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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate, Tesuko Honjo, is surrounded by his research team in his laboratory at the University of Tokyo, immediately after the announcement of his winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine. From his Twitter account

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the ability to use the immune system to fight cancerous tumors, including James Ellison - winner of the Wolf Prize

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Prof. Charles Bennett receives the 2018 Wolf Prize from Wolf Foundation Chairman and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett, President Reuven Rivlin, and Acting Speaker of the Knesset, MK Nachman Shai. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The history of the field of quantum information science

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The President of the State and Chairman of the Wolf Foundation Professor Dan Shechtman at the announcement ceremony at the President's House. Source: screenshot from the President's Facebook page.

Among the 2018 Wolf Prize winners: the researcher who sequenced the honey bee genome and quantum computing researchers

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Prof. Michel Mayor meets with President Reuven Rivlin. Source: PR photo.

"Technological improvement in the field of spectroscopy made possible the wave of discoveries of planets outside the solar system"

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Simulation of the first solar exoplanet discovered around a main sequence star - 51 Pegasi b. Source: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger.

The 2017 Wolf Prize winners in the arts and sciences have been announced

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Prof. David Thales receives the 1990 Wolf Prize in Physics from then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Minister of Education Zevulun Hamer

The Wolf Prize continues to be a "Nobel Predictor"

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Prof. Roland Kahn. From Wikipedia

Wolf Prize for Medicine for discovering the link between cancer and diabetes

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Prof. Yosef Emery of the Weizmann Institute. From Wikipedia

Wolf Prize in Physics to Prof. Yosef Emery from the Weizmann Institute for the development of the field of physics of mesoscopic systems and random systems

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biochemistry. Illustration: shutterstock

The discoverers of the connections between chemistry and biology won the 2016 Wolf Prize for Chemistry

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Prof. Trudy McKay, University of North Carolina. 2016 Wolf Prize for Agriculture Recipient

The pioneer of the genetic architecture of complex traits, Prof. Trudy McKay from the USA won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture

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Minister of Education and Chairman of the Wolf Foundation Naftali Bennett at the award ceremony for the 2015 winners held in May at the Knesset. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The 2016 Wolf Prize winners in the arts and sciences have been announced

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Winners of the Wolf Prizes for 2015 at the award ceremony held at the Mishkan Knesset. Moderator Dr. Liat Ben David

Learning from trailblazers: awards in the fields of science as a tool for science communication

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Right: Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Nachman Shai, President Reuven Rivlin and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett at the 2015 Wolf Awards ceremony. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

President Reuven Rivlin to the Wolf Prize winners: Your arrival is proof that art and science are superior to any boycott

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Rina Harsovsky, a student of the Scientific and Inventors of the Future Project, presents the winner of the Wolf Prize in Music, Murray Farahia, at the 2015 winners' announcement ceremony. Photo: Naama Marinberg

Gifted students from a science project and future inventors present the 2015 Wolf Prize winners

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