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Encyclopedia > Wolf Prize in Arts

Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Arts: 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... 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... 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... Resources ArtLex. ...

¹ The prize rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and sculpture. Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten. ... Antoni Tàpies (born in Barcelona, 1923) is a catalan spanish painter. ... Vladimir Horowitz (Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць) (OS 18 September, NS October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a classical pianist of Jewish origin. ... Olivier Messiaen (IPA: or ; December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. ... Ralph Erskine (March 18, 1685 - November 6, 1752), was a Scottish churchman. ... Eduardo Chillida (Chee-YEE-dah) Juantegui (1924 - ­2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor. ... Jasper Johns, Jr. ... Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) is widely considered one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. ... Photograph of Krzysztof Penderecki. ... Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect born in Tokyo on September 6, 1928. ... Sverre Fehn and Giancarlo De Carlo Giancarlo De Carlo was born in Genoa, Italy in 1919 and died in Milan the 4th of June 2005. ... Soft Bathtub (Model)—Ghost Version by Claes Oldenburg 1966, acryllic and pencil on foam-filled canvas with wood, cord, and plaster. ... This article should be translated from material at de:Anselm Kiefer. ... Fritz Kreisler (sitting) with Yehudi Menuhin The Right Honourable Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Gehrys most famous work, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is an architect known for his sculptural approach to building design. ... Jørn Utzon (b April 9, 1918) is a Danish architect. ... Sir Denys Lasdun (8 September 1914-11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century, particularly associated with the Modernist design of the Royal National Theatre on Londons South Bank of the River Thames. ... Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is a contemporary American artist. ... Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German artist. ... Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian-born conductor of European classical music. ... György Sándor Ligeti (born May 28, 1923) is a Hungarian composer (now living in, and a citizen of, Austria), widely seen as one of the great composers of instrumental music of the 20th century. ... Frei Otto (May 31, 1925) is a German architect and research engineer. ... Aldo van Eyck was born in Driebergen, Holland in 1918. ... James Turrell (born 1943, U.S.) is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. ... Pierre Boulez (IPA: /pjɛʁ.buˈlÉ›z/) (born March 26, 1925) is a conductor and composer of classical music. ... Riccardo Muti (born July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor best known for being the music director of Milans La Scala opera house, a position he has held since 1986. ... Álvaro Siza (Álvaro Joaquim de Meio Siza Vieira, born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos), is a contemporary Portuguese architect. ... Maman, by Louise Bourgeois, is a 30-foot-tall spider. ... Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич) (born March 27, 1927) is a naturalized American cellist and conductor, considered to be one of the greatest living cellists. ... Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (born November 15, 1942) is an Argentinean-Israeli pianist and conductor. ... Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. ...


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Each year since 1978, the Wolf Foundation, which is based in Israel, has awarded five Wolf Prizes to outstanding living scientists in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and physics as well as one to a person in the arts.
The prizes are intended to promote science and art for the benefit of humanity, and prize winners are selected by international committees of three renowned experts in each field.
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The Wolf Prizes were established by the late German-born inventor and diplomat Dr. Ricardo Wolf and are awarded annually in the fields of agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts.
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