Wolf Foundation Prize
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This Prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation. The Wolf Foundation began its activities in 1976, with an initial endowment fund of $10 million donated by the Wolf family.
Winners of the Wolf Foundation Prize
- 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1979 George E. Uhlenbeck and Giuseppe Occhialini
- 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, and Kenneth G. Wilson
- 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard ´T Hooft, and Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1982 Leon M. Lederman and Martin M. Perl
- 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn, Sir Peter B. Hirsh, and Theodore H. Maiman
- 1984/5 Conyers Herring and Philippe Nozieres
- 1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum and Albert J. Libchaber
- 1987 Herbert Friedman, Bruno B. Rossi, and Riccardo Giacconi
- 1988 Roger Penrose and Stephen W. Hawking
- 1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and David J. Thouless
- 1991 Maurice Goldhaber and Valentine L. Telegdi
- 1992 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
- 1993 Benoit B. Mandelbrot
- 1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Yoichiro Nambu
- 1996/7 John A. Wheeler
- 1998 Yakir Aharonov and Sir Michael V. Berry
- 1999 Dan Shechtman
- 2000 Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba
- 2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin and Anthony J. Leggett
- 2004 Robert Brout, Francois Englert, and Peter W. Higgs
- 2005 Daniel Kleppner
- 2006/7 Albert Fert and Peter Gruenberg