Wolf Prize in Agriculture 714510 218939089 2008-06-12T21:13:57Z Addshore 642191 Removing backlinks to Michael Elliott because "Rm link (Article Deleted)"; using [[WP:TWINKLE|TW]] The '''Wolf Prize in Agriculture''' is awarded once a year by the [[Wolf Foundation]]. It is one of the six [[Wolf Prize]]s established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], [[Wolf Prize in Mathematics|Mathematics]], [[Wolf Prize in Medicine|Medicine]], [[Wolf Prize in Physics|Physics]] and the [[Wolf Prize in Arts|Arts]]. The Prize is sometimes considered the equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Agriculture"<ref>National Research Council: "National Research Initiative: A Vital Competitive Grants Program in Food, Fiber and Natural-resources Research", page 155, National Academies Press, 2000</ref>. ==Laureates<ref>[http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=14&cat_title=AGRICULTURE Wolf Prize Recipients in Agriculture]</ref>== {| class="wikitable" |- bgcolor="#ccccc" ! style="width:7%" |Year ! style="width:21%" | Name ! style="width:18%" | Nationality ! Citation |- |rowspan=2| 1978 | [[George F. Sprague]] | {{USA}} | for his outstanding research on the genetic amelioration of maize for human welfare. |- | [[John C. Walker]] | {{USA}} | for his research in plant pathology, developing of disease-resistant varieties of major food plants. |- |rowspan=2| 1979 | [[Jay L. Lush]] | {{USA}} | for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the application of genetics to livestock improvement; |- | [[Kenneth Blaxter]] | {{GBR}} | for his fundamental contributions to the science and practice of ruminant nutrition and livestock production. |- | 1980 | [[Karl Maramorosch]] | {{POL}} / {{USA}} | for his pioneering and wide-ranging studies on interactions between insects and disease agents in plants. |- | rowspan=3|1981 | [[John O. Almquist]] | {{USA}} | for his significant contributions to the application of artificial insemination to livestock improvement. |- | [[Henry A. Lardy]] | {{USA}} | for his pioneering research on storage and preservation of spermatozoa thus enabling artificial insemination to become a universal practice. |- | [[Glenn W. Salisbury]] | {{USA}} | for his outstanding achievements in basic and applied research on artificial insemination. |- | 1982 | [[Wendell L. Roelofs]] | {{USA}} | for his fundamental chemical and biological research on pheromones and their practical use in insect control. |- | 1983/4 | [[Don Kirkham]] <br> [[Cornelis T. de Wit]] | {{USA}} <br> {{NED}} | for their innovative contributions to the quantitative understanding of soil-water and other environmental interactions influencing crop growth and yield. |- | 1984/5 | [[Robert H. Burris]] | {{USA}} | for his pioneering fundamental research on the mechanisms of biological nitrogen fixation and its application in crop production. |- | 1986 | [[Ralph Riley]] <br> [[Ernest R. Sears]] | {{GBR}} <br> {{USA}} | for their fundamental research in cytogenetics of wheat, providing the basis for genetic improvement of cereal grains. |- | 1987 | [[Theodor O. Diener]] | {{USA}} | for his discovery and pioneering fundamental research on viroids and his applied work on viroid detection in crops. |- | 1988 | [[Charles Thibault]] <br> [[Ernest John Christopher Polge]] | {{FRA}}; <br> {{GBR}} | for pioneering work in reproductive physiology including cell preservation, fertilization processes, egg biology and embryo manipulations for domestic animal improvement. |- | 1989 | [[Peter M. Biggs]] <br> Michael Elliott | {{GBR}} <br> {{GBR}} | for distinguished contributions to basic science and its successful translation into practice in the fields of animal health and crop protection. |- | 1990 | [[Jozef Schell|Jozef Stefaan Schell]] | {{BEL}} | for his pioneering work in genetic transformation of plants, thereby opening up new horizons in basic plant science and breeding. |- | 1991 | [[Shang Fa Yang]] | {{flag|Taiwan}} / {{USA}} | for his remarkable contributions to the understanding of the mechanism of biosynthesis, mode of action and applications of the plant hormone, Ethylene. |- | 1992 || No award || |- | 1993 | [[John E. Casida]] | {{USA}} | for his pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects. |- | 1994/5 | [[Carl B. Huffaker]] <br> [[Perry L. Adkisson]] | {{USA}} <br> {{USA}} | for their contributions to the development and implementation of environmentally beneficial integrated pest management systems for the protection of agricultural crops. |- | 1995/6 | [[Morris Schnitzer]] <br> [[Frank J. Stevenson]] | {{CAN}} <br> {{USA}} | for their pioneering contributions to our understanding of the chemistry of soil organic matter and its application to agriculture. |- | 1996/7 | [[Neal L. First]] | {{USA}} | for his pioneering research in the reproductive biology of livestock. |- | 1998 | [[Ilan Chet]] <br> [[Baldur R. Stefansson]] | {{ISR}} <br> {{CAN}} | for their contributionsto the environmentally safe development of world agriculture through innovative approaches in breeding and bio-control. |- | 1999 || No award || |- | 2000 | [[Gurdev S. Khush]] | {{IND}} | for his extraordinary contribution to theoretical research in plant genetics, evolution and breeding especially of rice, with regard to food production and alleviation of hunger. |- | 2001 | [[Roger N. Beachy]] <br> [[James E. Womack]] | {{USA}} <br> {{USA}} | for the use of recombinant DNA technology, to revolutionize plant and animal sciences, paving the way for applications to neighboring fields. |- | 2002/3 | [[R. Michael Roberts]] <br> [[Fuller W. Bazer]] | {{GBR}} / {{USA}}; <br> {{USA}} | for discoveries of Interferon-tau and other pregnancy-associated proteins, which clarified the biological mystery of signaling between embryo and mother to maintain pregnancy, with profound effects on the efficiency of animal production systems, as well as human health and well-being. |- | 2004 | [[Yuan Longping]] <br> [[Steven D. Tanksley]] | {{CHN}} <br> {{USA}} | for innovative development of hybrid rice and discovery of the genetic basis of heterosis in this important food staple. |- | 2005 || No award || |- | 2006/7 | [[Ronald L. Phillips]] <br> [[Michel A. J. Georges]] | {{USA}} <br> {{BEL}} | for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences. |- | 2008 | [[John A. Pickett]] <br> [[James H. Tumlinson]] <br> [[W. Joe Lewis]] | {{GBR}} <br> {{USA}} <br> {{USA}} | for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. Their scientific contributions on chemical ecology have fostered the development of integrated pest management and significantly advanced agricultural sustainability. |- |} == References == {{Reflist}} {{Wolf Prizes}} {{Wolf Prize in Agriculture}} [[Category:Agriculture in society]] [[Category:Wolf Prizes|Agriculture]] [[cs:Seznam nositelů Wolfovy ceny za zemědělství]] [[es:Premio Wolf en Agricultura]] [[hu:Agrártudományi Wolf-díj]] [[ja:ウルフ賞農業部門]] [[ro:Lista laureaţilor Premiului Wolf pentru agricultură]] [[sk:Zoznam nositeľov Wolfovej ceny za poľnohospodárstvo]]