US architect behind New York's High Line among Wolf Prize winners

The American architect who designed New York’s High Line urban park and renovated the Museum of Modern Art and a Stanford University researcher are among the winners of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize.

Elizabeth Diller, who also designed the US Olympic & Paralympic Museum, is recognized “for her exceptional and influential work connecting architecture to artistic practice, engaged in the public domain.” She shares the $100,000 prize in architecture with Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto.

In this March 5, 2019 photo, structures both modern and old flank visitors walking on the High Line park in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

The 2022 laureates were announced by the Wolf Foundation, a state-owned entity that issues the award to promote excellence in arts and sciences. About three dozen Wolf Laureates have gone on to win Nobel prizes in the 44 years that the prize has been awarded.

The other recipients of this year’s awards are Pamela C. Ronald in agriculture; Anne L’Huillier, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz in Physics; George Lusztig in mathematics; Bonnie L. Basler, Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Benjamin F. Cravatt III in chemistry.

Bertozzi, a chemical biologist at Stanford, was recognized for work that “has opened up basic drug discovery and therapeutic targets associated with cancer, inflammation, bacterial infection, tuberculosis and most recently COVID-19,” the foundation says.