The list for the 2022 Wolf Prize is out.
A total of 7 scientists won awards in the fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry, and 4 won awards in agriculture and architecture.
Each prize is $100,000.
Founded in 1976, the Wolf Prize is one of the world's highest academic achievement awards.
△ The annual award ceremony is held in Israel, and the country's president will personally attend
So far, a total of 356 scientists and artists (new art awards were added in 1981) around the world have won the award, including 7 Chinese scientists, including Yau Chengtong, Chen Shengshen, Yuan Longping, Wu Jianxiong, Qian Yongjian and so on.
It is worth mentioning that about 1/3 of the Wolf Prize winners eventually won the Nobel Prize.
Wolf Prize in Mathematics 2022
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is one of the most influential of the six awards, and it and the Fields Medal are jointly acclaimed as the highest honor in mathematics.
This year's Wolf Prize in Mathematics went to George Lusztig, a 75-year-old Romanian-American mathematician and MIT professor.
He was recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to expression theory and related fields, and was named "one of the greatest mathematicians of our time."
George Lusztig showed an interest and talent in mathematics at an early age, winning two silver medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad by the eighth grade.
He studied the index theorem of ellipse operators in the early days, with which he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he subsequently taught at the University of Warwick and MIT in the United Kingdom.
He is best known for his research on representation theory, especially with respect to algebraic groups of objects such as Lie groups, Heck algebras, P-in groups, quantum groups, and Wehr groups.
He has won the Cole Prize, the LeRoy Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics, the Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2014), and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
2022 Wolf Prize in Physics
There were 3 people in total, mainly in recognition of their pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and atassecond physics.
They are:
Anne L'Huillier, a 64-year-old French physicist and professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden
Anne L'Huillier became a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2004, working on the interaction between short and strong laser pulses and atoms.
As a child, she planted the seeds of scientific inquiry while watching man's first manned lunar mission, Apollo 11.
Anne L'Huillier first earned a master's degree in theoretical physics and mathematics, followed by a ph.D. in experimental physics, from the University of Paris VI.
She was one of the first to experimentally demonstrate the production of higher-order harmonics, and she and her team in Sweden broke the world record with a minimum laser pulse of 170 attoseconds (one billionth of a billionth of a second).
Paul Corkum, Canadian physicist, leader and pioneer in ultrafast laser spectroscopy
Paul Corkum was inspired by his physics teacher in high school to embark on a career path in physics research.
He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA, is a Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, a research fellow of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Society of Canada, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Paul Corkum has made outstanding contributions to the field of higher harmonic generation and has proposed intuitive models that help explain complex phenomena related to attosecond spectroscopy.
In an interview, when asked "why do you have confidence in studying experimental physics," he replied:
"My childhood gave me the confidence that I was able to completely disassemble the engine of my car from an early age and reassemble it to work properly."
Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz
Ferenc Krausz's team pioneered and measured pulses of light with a time of less than 1 femtosecond and used them to observe the movement of electrons within atoms in real time.
Ferenc Krausz received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Science and Technology, a ph.D. in quantum electronics from the Vienna University of Technology, and became director of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 2004.
Other awards
The 2022 Wolf Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their pioneering contributions to understanding the chemistry of cell communication and inventing chemical methods to study the role of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins in such biological processes.
Princeton University Professor Bonnie L. Basler
She studies how bacteria communicate chemically, specifically the phenomenon of quorum induction.
The Wolf Prize says her work has a wide range of applications for developing new antimicrobial therapies, or the next generation of antibiotics.
Carolyn R. Bartucci, a professor at Stanford University
She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Harvard University, her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and her postdoctoral work in Cytoimmunology at the University of California, San Francisco.
She invented the field of biorform chemistry and won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for her research on the understanding of glycocalyx (glycoproteins and glycolipids on the surface of cells) and their role in health and disease.
Benjamin F. Cravatt III of the Scripps Institute, a renowned biomedical research institute in the United States
He received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry primarily for developing activity-based protein analysis techniques. This tool has been widely used in the study of chemical proteomics to analyze enzyme function in biological systems.
The recipient of the 2022 Wolfe Agricultural Prize is Professor Pamela C. Ronald of the University of California, Davis, who has done pioneering work on rice disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance.