Prof. David Thewles, the recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, won the Wolf Prize already in 1990
The management of the Wolff Prize updates following last night's announcement of Prof. Thewles winning the Nobel Prize, because already in 1990, when he was only 56 years old, he won the Israeli Wolff Prize in the amount of 100,000 dollars. Thewles arrived in Israel in June 1990 and received the award from the hands of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and the Minister of Education at the time, the late Zebulon Hamer.
The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to scientists and artists known for their unique contribution in various fields including agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, physics, medicine, music, architecture, painting and sculpture.
The Wolf Prize has a very prestigious international reputation, and is considered the second most important in the world after the Nobel Prize. The prize is considered a "Nobel predictor": about 33% percent of the Wolf Prize winners over the years also won the Nobel Prize later on. Among the winners of the Wolf Prize who later also won the Nobel Prize are Prof. Ada Yonat and Prof. Dan Schechtman from Israel, Prof. Peter Higgs from Great Britain and the Japanese researcher Dr. Shinya Yamanaka.
In the reasons for the Wolff Prize Committee in 1990, it was written that "Professor David Thewles made first-of-its-kind contributions to the theoretical understanding of large-scale systems of atoms, electrons, and nucleons. Among the phenomena he studied are superconductivity, properties of nuclear matter, and collective vibrations within atomic nuclei. His works on systems Disorders provided key ideas for understanding electron transport processes in systems, In which the detection phenomena are known according to Anderson. Thewles showed that there are measurable results for the detection phenomenon in thin cables. His contribution to the theory of spins was considerable. In collaboration with JM Kosterlitz, he developed a description of the phase transitions of the Vortices in two-dimensional systems with continuous symmetry This work has known impressive effects and uses Many in other areas of physics. Thewles clearly presented the importance of topological concepts (and their associated variables) in condensed matter physics, and demonstrated their contribution to the understanding of the quantum Hall effect."
see also:
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discoverers of the strange states of matter
One response
On the one hand, it is impressive that in 1990, 26 years ago, a prize was given to someone who today receives a Nobel and testifies to the archaism of the Nobel and shame. I would conclude from this that the Wolf Prize is ahead of the credit for breakthroughs and is less conservative.