An American and a Dutch scientist are to share the $100,000 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for 1983/84, the Israeli-based foundation has announced here.
The Wolf Prize, said to be the largest international prize in the field of agriculture (in other fields Wolf Prizes are frequently followed by Nobel Prizes to the Wolf recipients), is being awarded to the two scientists for separate work which resulted in “innovative contributions to the quantitative understanding of soil-water and other environmental interactions influencing crop growth and yield.”
The two winners are Prof. Don Kirkham, of the lowa State University in the U.S., and Prof. Cornells T. De Wit, of the Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Kirkham, 75, is being honored for his pioneering mathematical and physical analyses of the movement of water in soil.
De Wit, 59, has been cited for introducing a powerful new approach to agricultural research in his innovative application of computer simulation models in the study of the new environmental determination of crop production.
The Wolf Prizes in mathematics, agriculture, physics, chemistry medicine and arts (this year also for architecture) will be presented by President Chaim Herzog at a ceremony in Jerusalem next May. “
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