From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Wolf Prize winners announced in five fields
President Reuven Rivlin hosts the Wolf Foundation at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem for the announcement of this year’s Wolf Prize winners.
The prize celebrates laureates’ contributions to “science and arts in the service of humanity” and is awarded, together with $100,000 for the winner, in the fields of medicine, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry and physics, as well as in the arts, including drawing and sculpture, music, and architecture. The prizes will be handed out in a ceremony in the Knesset in May this year.
The announcement today was presided over by the Wolf Foundation’s acting chairman, Prof. Dan Shechtman, and Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Shechtman won the Wolf Prize in physics in 1999, then went on to win the Nobel in chemistry in 2011.
The 2019 Wolf Prize winners are:
• Wolf Prize in Medicine – Prof. Jeffrey Friedman
• Wolf Prize in Mathematics – Prof. Gregory Lawler and Prof. Jean-Francois Le Galle
• Wolf Prize in Agriculture – Prof. David Zilberman
• Wolf Prize in Architecture – Moshe Safdie
• Wolf Prize in Chemistry – Prof. Stephen L Buchwald and Prof. John F Hartwig
At the event, Rivlin notes that none of the winners this year are women. “The foundation would do well to make sure that each year they find a groundbreaking woman scientist and artist, who certainly exist, and award her a prize,” he says.
The Times of Israel Community.