The Wolf Prize is an international award modeled on the Nobel Prize. It honors between one and three scientists in six different disciplines for outstanding discoveries. Wolf Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are often considered the most prestigious awards in those fields after the Nobel Prize.
About 40 % of the Wolf Prize winners are also Nobel Laureates. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Chemistry Nobel Prize Laureates, for example, were awarded the Wolf prize in 2020. For a list of Wolf Prize Laureates, click here. Those who have received the Nobel Prize cannot be nominated for the Wolf Prize.
The Wolf Prize has been awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation since 1978 and comes with USD 100,000 in prize money. The award is presented during a ceremony at the Knesset, Israel´s Parliament. The 2021 Wolf Prize announcement will take place on February 9 at 17:00 (CET +1). (it was postponed for one week)
You can find the announcement here and a list of the names suggested in the voting below
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Ad Bax | |
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Aida Takuzo | |
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Antonio Togni | |
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Barry M Trost | |
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Benjamin List | |
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Bert Meijer | |
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Carolyn R. Bertozzi | 2 |
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Chad Mirkin | 2 |
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Craig Crews | |
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David Leigh | |
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David MacMillan | 3 |
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Karl Alexander Deisseroth | |
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Eric Carreira | 3 |
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Eric Jacobsen | |
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Feng Zhang | |
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Harry B. Gray | |
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Hossam Haick | |
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Kamil Ugurbil | |
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Krzysztof “Kris” Matyjaszewski | |
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Matt Disney | |
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Meir Lahav | one of the Wolf Prize 2021 winners |
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Michael Gratzel | |
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Narayana Murthy Sabbavarapu | 4 |
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Omar Yaghi | |
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Peidong Yang | |
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Peter H. Seeberger | 3 |
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Peter Schreiner | |
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Phil Baran | 4 |
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Pieter Cullis | |
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Raphael Meshulam | |
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Robert Crabtree | |
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Shaik Sason | |
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Sumio iijima | |
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Takuzo Aida | 7 |
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Valery V. Fokin | |
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Zhenan Bao | |
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- Wolf Foundation, Israel
Also of Interest
2019 Wolf Prize in Chemistry |