The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ... irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views". The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf [1], a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. It is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and an Arts prize that rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and sculpture. Each prize consists of a diploma and USD$100,000. Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Arts: 1981 Painting¹: Marc Chagall, Antoni Tapies 1982 Music¹: Vladimir Horowitz, Olivier Messiaen, Josef Tal 1983/4 Architecture¹: Ralph Erskine 1984/5 Sculpture¹: Eduardo Chillida 1986 Painting: Jasper Johns 1987 Music: Isaac Stern, Krzysztof Penderecki 1988 Architecture: Fumihiko Maki, Giancarlo De Carlo 1989... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 1978 Carl Djerassi 1979 Herman F. Mark 1980 Henry Eyring 1981 Joseph Chatt 1982 John C. Polanyi, George C. Pimentel 1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky, Harden M. McConnell, John A. Waugh 1984/5 Rudolph A. Marcus 1986 Elias James Corey, Albert Eschenmoser... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 1978 Israel M. Gelfand, Carl L. Siegel 1979 Jean Leray, André Weil 1980 Henri Cartan, Andrei Kolmogorov 1981 Lars Ahlfors, Oscar Zariski 1982 Hassler Whitney, Mark Grigoryevich Krein 1983/4 Shiing S. Chern, Paul Erdős 1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira, Hans... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1978 George D. Snell, Jean Dausset, Jon J. van Rood 1979 Roger W. Sperry, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz 1980 Cesar Milstein, Leo Sachs, Sir James L. Gowans 1981 Barbara McClintock, Stanley N. Cohen 1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux, Solomon H. Snyder, Sir James... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Physics: 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard t Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin M. Perl 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The scope of this article is limited to the empirical sciences. ... Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry: 1978 Carl Djerassi 1979 Herman F. Mark 1980 Henry Eyring 1981 Joseph Chatt 1982 John C. Polanyi, George C. Pimentel 1983/4 Herbert S. Gutowsky, Harden M. McConnell, John A. Waugh 1984/5 Rudolph A. Marcus 1986 Elias James Corey, Albert Eschenmoser... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics: 1978 Israel M. Gelfand, Carl L. Siegel 1979 Jean Leray, André Weil 1980 Henri Cartan, Andrei Kolmogorov 1981 Lars Ahlfors, Oscar Zariski 1982 Hassler Whitney, Mark Grigoryevich Krein 1983/4 Shiing S. Chern, Paul Erdős 1984/5 Kunihiko Kodaira, Hans... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Medicine: 1978 George D. Snell, Jean Dausset, Jon J. van Rood 1979 Roger W. Sperry, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz 1980 Cesar Milstein, Leo Sachs, Sir James L. Gowans 1981 Barbara McClintock, Stanley N. Cohen 1982 Jean-Pierre Changeux, Solomon H. Snyder, Sir James... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Physics: 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard t Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin M. Perl 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn... Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Arts: 1981 Painting¹: Marc Chagall, Antoni Tapies 1982 Music¹: Vladimir Horowitz, Olivier Messiaen, Josef Tal 1983/4 Architecture¹: Ralph Erskine 1984/5 Sculpture¹: Eduardo Chillida 1986 Painting: Jasper Johns 1987 Music: Isaac Stern, Krzysztof Penderecki 1988 Architecture: Fumihiko Maki, Giancarlo De Carlo 1989...

The Wolf Prizes in mathematics, physics and chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields after the Nobel Prize or Fields Medal. The medicine prize is probably the third most prestigious, after the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award. Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to up to four mathematicians not over forty years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (therefore once every four years). ... The Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards have been awarded annually since 1946 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science. ...

See also

• List of prizes, medals, and awards

A list of famous prizes, medals and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc. ...

External links

• Wolf Foundation