Ten distinguished scientists from all over the world shared prizes worth $100,000 awarded by the Wolf Foundation, the Israeli equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
An Israeli, Prof. Leo Sachs of the Weizmann Institute of Science, for the first time was among the recipients. He shared the prize in medicine with Dr. Cesar Milstein of Cambridge, England, and Prof. James Gowans of Landon.
The prize for agriculture went to Prof. Karl Maranorosch of Rutgers University. New Jersey. The mathematics prize was divided between Prof. Emeritus Henri Carton of the University of Paris and Prof. Andrei Kolmogorov of Moscow State University.
The chemistry prize went to Prof. Henry Eyring of the University of Utah. The physics prize was divided among Prof. Michael Fisher and Prof. Kenneth Wilson, both or Cornell University, New York and Prof. Leo Kodanoaff of Brown University, Rhode Island.
The prizes are funded by the Wolf Foundation which was established by Ricardo Wolf, a German-born Jewish millionaire.
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