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The winners of the Wolf Prize for 2023 at a ceremony in the Knesset 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, mathematics, agriculture and art
Chuan Ha, 2023 Wolf Prize Winners 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 Dubshey, 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 for 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 awarding ceremony together with Prof. Dan Shechtman and Reut Yanon Berman, CEO of the Wolf Foundation. Photo: Lior Daskel, Jos 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
Fast laser. Illustration: depositphotos.com

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 and innovative work in the field of ultrafast laser science and the physics of attoseconds, and for high temporal resolution imaging that characterizes the movement of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids.
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: Reot Yanon Berman- Executive Director of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Dan Shechtman- Chairman of the Wolf Foundation, Prof. Giorgio Parizzi, Rector Antonella Polimani, Dror Idar- Ambassador of Israel in 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 consecutive years 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 CEO Reut Yeinon-Berman, traveled around the world and held ceremonies at the universities of the 15 winners. In many cases it was the first local event since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic
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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Micro RNA. 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 stated that these scientists made breakthrough discoveries in the mechanisms that regulate RNA and demonstrated that RNA is not a passive template between DNA and protein but plays a dominant role in regulating and diversifying genetic expression
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 Wolf Award winners for 2020 and 2021.
Photo of Roger Penrose winning the Wolf Prize with Stephen Hawking 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. Schechtman, 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 for good things, but can also cause damage in the wrong hands.
Prof. Emmanuel Charpentier. Courtesy of the Wolf Prize Foundation

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the scientists who developed the CRISPR "genetic numbers" immediately after the Wolf award

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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 from 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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2018 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Tsuko Honjo, surrounded by his research team in his laboratory at the University of Tokyo, just after the announcement of his 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 Wolf Prize for 2018 from Wolf Foundation Chairman and Minister of Education Naftali Bennett, President Reuven Ravlin, 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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