WINNERS OF WOLF PRIZE ANNOUNCED

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THE 2001 WOLF FOUNDATION Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan of the University of Paris-South, Ryoji Noyori of Nagoya University, and K. Barry Sharpless of Scripps Research Institute. The foundation, based in Herzila, Israel, is honoring the chemists for their pioneering, creative, and crucial work in developing methods for the synthesis of chiral molecules. Kagan received a B.A. in chemistry from the Sorbonne and Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie in 1954 and a Ph.D. from College de France in I960. A member of the faculty at University of Paris-South since 1967, he now has emeritus status. His other honors include the Prelog Medal from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Centenary Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Noyori, professor of chemistry and director of the Research Center for Materials Science at Nagoya University, was educated at Kyoto University, receiving a B.S. in 1961, an M.S. in 1963, ...