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The Wolf Prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, often goes to mathematicians who are in their sixties or older. That is to say, the Prize honours the achievements of a lifetime. T This valuable work features bibliographies, important papers, and speeches (for example at international congresses) of Wolf Prize winners, s uch as R. Bott, A.P. Calderon, A.N. Kolmogorov, M.G. Krein, P. Lax, H. Lewy, L. Lovasz, J. Milnor, J. Moser, I. Piatetski-Shapiro, J.P. Serre, C.L. Siegel, Y. Sinai, E.M. Stein, J. Tits, A. Weil, H. Whitney, A. Wiles and O. Zariski. This is the first time that documents on Wolf Prize winners have been published together. Since the work of the Wolf laureates covers a wide spectrum, much of the mathematics of the 20th century comes to life in this book. ... Read more

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This volume provides a historical account of the recipients of the Wolf Prize in Medicine and includes their curriculum vitae and examples of their most significant publications. Altogether, 25 Wolf Prize recipients are included. The book gives a historical account of the Wolf Prize and provides ready access to material which have been important in the recognition of its recipients. Many recipients have extensive publication lists; it is valuable to have a concise account of their curriculum vitae as well as list of publications, and especially a reprint of the most significant publications that have resulted in them being awarded the Wolf Prize. Apart from this valuable volume and "The Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology" volumes, there appears to be no equivalent volume in which the achievements of pre-eminent contributors to the field of medicine has been assembled. ... Read more

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This specially compiled, one-of-a-kind volume contains exemplary contributions from Wolf Prize laureates. In agriculture, there is no higher prize than the Wolf Prize. Thus, the reader has the opportunity to learn from the very top in various aspects of this field. Indeed, the book includes a list of publications and the most important papers in plant and animal breeding, genetics, biochemistry and plant protection, biotechnology, as well as chemistry and the physics of soils. One can learn about the development of a particular field of agriculture, at its highest level, in this volume through the scientific activities of its world-class contributors. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize in Agriculture is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and the Arts. The Prize is sometimes considered the equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Agriculture", though the same description is also given to the World Food Prize. The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. Dr. Ricardo Wolf was the founder of the Wolf Foundation. He was a German-born inventor, diplomat, philanthropist and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. For many years, he worked to develop a process for recovering iron from smelting process residue. Ultimately successful, his invention was utilized in steel factories all over the world, bringing him considerable wealth. He established the Wolf Foundation in 1975. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ryōji Noyori, John Pople, Richard R. Ernst, Ahmed Zewail, Carl Djerassi, Ada Yonath, Elias James Corey, Henry Eyring, Herbert S. Gutowsky, F. Albert Cotton, Herman Francis Mark, Gerhard Ertl, Richard Zare, Richard Lerner, Peter G. Schultz, Joshua Jortner, Harry B. Gray, Gábor A. Somorjai, Raymond Lemieux, Samuel J. Danishefsky, Alexander Pines, John Charles Polanyi, Gilbert Stork, Harden M. Mcconnell, Raphael David Levine, Karl Barry Sharpless, Henri B. Kagan, Rudolph A. Marcus, Duilio Arigoni, John S. Waugh, David Chilton Phillips, David Mervyn Blow, Albert Eschenmoser, Alan R. Battersby, Joseph Chatt, George C. Pimentel, W. E. Moerner, George Feher, Allen J. Bard. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Carl Djerassi (born October 29, 1923 in Vienna, Austria), is an American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University. He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindronewhich, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. His preparation was first administered as an oral contraceptive to animals by Gregory Pincus and Min Chueh Chang and to women by John Rock. Djerassi remarked that he did not have birth control in mind when he began working with progesterone "not in our wildest dreams did we imagine (it)". He is also the author of several novels in the "science-in-fiction" genre, including Cantor's Dilemma, in which he explores the ethics of modern scientific research through his protagonist, Dr. Cantor. Patent of the first orally active pro...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=574479 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize in Arts is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation, and has been awarded since 1981; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Physics, awarded since 1978. The Prize rotates annually between painting, music, architecture and sculpture. The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. ... Read more

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Chapters: Teddy Award, Golden Bear, Deutscher Filmpreis, Bambi, Bavarian Film Awards, Bundesfilmpreis, Konrad Wolf Prize. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics in Germany. The award is each year presented in Berlin by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival or as it is commonly known, the Berlinale. Here, an "independent jury" implies that its members are not officially selected by the committee of the Berlinale. In the most part, the jury generally consists of organisers of gay and lesbian film festivals, who view films screened in all sections of the Berlinale. Subsequently, a list of films meeting criteria for LGBT content is selected by the jury, and a 3,000-Euro Teddy is awarded to a feature film, a short film and a documentary. The award was first given in 1987. In 1987 German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber formed a jury called the International Gay ... Read more

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Chapters: Wolf Prize in Chemistry Laureates, Wolf Prize in Mathematics Laureates, Wolf Prize in Medicine Laureates, Wolf Prize in Physics Laureates, Andrew Wiles, Roger Penrose, Freeman Dyson, Atle Selberg, Barbara Mcclintock, Ryōji Noyori, Benoît Mandelbrot, Andrey Kolmogorov, John Pople, John Milnor, Vladimir Arnold, André Weil, Richard R. Ernst, Lars Ahlfors, Stephen Smale, Robert Langlands, Leon M. Lederman, Ahmed Zewail, Riccardo Giacconi, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Stanley B. Prusiner, Paul Erdős, John Archibald Wheeler, Israel Gelfand, Masatoshi Koshiba, Saharon Shelah, Stephen Hawking, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Roger Y. Tsien, Eric Kandel, Jean Dausset, Anthony James Leggett, Maclyn Mccarty, David Mumford, Carl Djerassi, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Vitaly Ginzburg, Oliver Smithies, Ada Yonath, Mario Capecchi, Meir Wilchek, Chien-Shiung Wu, Peter Higgs, Judah Folkman, Elias James Corey, Peter Grünberg, Raymond Davis, Jr., César Milstein, Lars Hörmander, Henry Eyring, Jean-Pierre Serre, Grigory Margulis, Herbert S. Gutowsky, Seymour Benzer, Shiing-Shen Chern, Edward B. Lewis, F. Albert Cotton, Hassler Whitney, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., Raoul Bott, Herman Francis Mark, Gerhard Ertl, Michael Berridge, Richard Zare, James W. Black, Yoichiro Nambu, John G. Thompson, Michael Fisher, Richard Lerner, Mikhail Gromov, Henri Cartan, Anthony Pawson, François Englert, Avram Hershko, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Peter Lax, Bruno Rossi, Elias M. Stein, Peter G. Schultz, Joshua Jortner, Sergei Novikov, Arvid Carlsson, Yakir Aharonov, Pierre Deligne, Kenneth G. Wilson, Oscar Zariski, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Albert Fert, Harry B. Gray, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Jacques Tits, Gábor A. Somorjai, Kunihiko Kodaira, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Raymond Lemieux, Samuel Eilenberg, Samuel J. Danishefsky, George Davis Snell, Alexander Pines, Gerardus 't Hooft, John Charles Polanyi, Kiyoshi Itō, László Lovász, Robert Weinberg, Conyers Herring, Ennio de Giorgi, Joh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19376148 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Wolf Prize in Physics, Wolf Prize in Medicine, Wolf Prize in Agriculture, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Prize in Arts, Wolf Prize, Wolf Foundation, Ricardo Wolf, Emet Prize. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. Until the establishment of the Abel Prize, the Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the more prestigious Fields Medal was (and still is) only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=714278 ... Read more

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Chapters: Barbara Mcclintock, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Stanley B. Prusiner, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Roger Y. Tsien, Eric Kandel, Jean Dausset, Maclyn Mccarty, Oliver Smithies, Mario Capecchi, Meir Wilchek, Judah Folkman, César Milstein, Seymour Benzer, Edward B. Lewis, Michael Berridge, James W. Black, Anthony Pawson, Avram Hershko, Arvid Carlsson, George Davis Snell, Robert Weinberg, John Gurdon, Anthony R. Hunter, Solomon H. Snyder, Alexander Levitzki, Stanley Norman Cohen, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Michael Sela, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Leo Sachs, Pedro Cuatrecasas, Mary F. Lyon, Donald F. Steiner, Osamu Hayaishi, Ruth Arnon, Alexander Varshavsky, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Aharon Razin, Henri G. Hers, Jon J. Van Rood, Howard Cedar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 192. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 September 2, 1992), the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosisa mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of gen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=55188 ... Read more

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Chapters: Roger Penrose, Freeman Dyson, Benoît Mandelbrot, Leon M. Lederman, Riccardo Giacconi, John Archibald Wheeler, Masatoshi Koshiba, Stephen Hawking, Anthony James Leggett, Vitaly Ginzburg, Chien-Shiung Wu, Peter Higgs, Peter Grünberg, Raymond Davis, Jr., Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., Yoichiro Nambu, Michael Fisher, François Englert, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Bruno Rossi, Yakir Aharonov, Kenneth G. Wilson, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Albert Fert, George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Gerardus 't Hooft, Conyers Herring, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Berry, Robert Brout, Theodore Harold Maiman, Maurice Goldhaber, Daniel Kleppner, Peter Hirsch, Bertrand Halperin, Philippe Nozieres, David J. Thouless, Dan Shechtman, Giuseppe Occhialini. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 203. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose scientific career spans over forty years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19376148 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. Until the establishment of the Abel Prize, the Prize was probably the closest equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Mathematics", since the more prestigious Fields Medal was (and still is) only awarded every 4 years to mathematicians under 40. The Wolf Prize is an international award, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ... irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views." ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Wolf Prize in Agriculture is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and the Arts. The Prize is sometimes considered the equivalent of a "Nobel Prize in Agriculture", though the same description is also given to the World Food Prize. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=714510 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Arts. The Prize is probably the third most prestigious award in medicine, after the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award. The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize is an international award, that has been presented most years since 1978 to living scientists and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ... irrespective of nationality, race, colour, religion, sex or political views." The prize is awarded in Israel by the Wolf Foundation, founded by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. It is awarded in six fields: Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and an Arts prize that rotates between architecture, music, painting and sculpture. Each prize consists of a diploma and US$100,000. The prize is described by the Foundation as being "awarded annually", but is not in fact awarded every year: only 6 prizes were awarded between 2000 and 2009 in most fields, and only 4 in Physics. ... Read more

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This book is an epitome of the development of chemistry in the 20th century and onwards. The book is a collection of brief autobiographies and selected papers of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureates from 1978 to 2007. Readers will not only gain detailed knowledge of all the major fields in chemistry, but will also be inspired by the distinguishing personality and character of the laureates in their autobiographies and selected papers. Both editors of the book are veteran chemists who have worked in the field for many years. Dr Sheng-Hsien Lin is a theoretical chemist who has published more than 700 papers and 20 books while Dr Lou-Sing Kan is an NMR specialist and biophysicist who has authored and contributed 170 peer-reviewed papers. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine and Arts. The Prize is often considered the most prestigious award in physics after the Nobel Prize. The Wolf Foundation was established in 1975 by Dr. Ricardo Wolf, a German-born inventor and former Cuban ambassador to Israel. ... Read more

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Chapters: Elliott Cresson Medal, Shaw Prize, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, International Chemistry Olympiad, Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Gregori Aminoff Prize, Sloan Fellowship, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, Perkin Medal, Wayne B. Nottingham Prize, Lieben Prize, Garvan-olin Medal, Priestley Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, Corday-Morgan Medal, Acs Award in Pure Chemistry, Faraday Lectureship Prize, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Meldola Medal and Prize, Remington Medal, Liebig Medal, Roebling Medal, Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry, Edward Harrison Memorial Prize, Irving Langmuir Award, Heinrich Wieland Prize, Anselme Payen Award, Fritz Pregl Prize, Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, Peter Debye Award, Dexter Award, Linus Pauling Award, Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes, Lavoisier Medal, Arthur C. Cope Award, Nas Award in Chemical Sciences, Stokes Medal, E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, the Ryoji Noyori Prize, Iota Sigma Pi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 167. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Elliott Cresson Medal, also known as the Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, was the highest award given by the Franklin Institute. The award was established by Elliott Cresson, life member of the Franklin Institute, with $1,000 granted in 1848. The endowed award was to be "for some discovery in the Arts and Sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, or for some new process or combination of materials in manufactures, or for ingenuity skill or perfection in workmanship." The medal was first awarded in 1875, 21 years after Cresson's death. The Franklin Institute continued awarding the medal on an occasional basis until 1998 when they reorganized their endowed awar...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23600338 ... Read more

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Soooo disappointed.
I had fairly high expectations, being an award winning book and all, but I was very disappointed. Very hard to know who the author is referring to when "he" is used and up to five characters could be referred to, hard to follow between past and present. I'm on page 113 and am just too tired of trying to figure it all out. Done reading it -best to stay away if you are considering buying it. What a shame.

Mantel's Wolf Hall
It is hard to believe that a Human Being can write so splendid story about the Tudors and its world

Wolf Hall
This book Wolf Hall has not arrived. All communication with seller is totally frustrating. Book was ordered n Sept.23.
What do I do?
Seller is sbd- Totally not reliable!!!
The I hate it star is for the service ,not the novel

Ms. Mantel, you lost me at "he"
Sorry, Ms. Mantel, but you lost me at "he".Sentences like "Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen" would have been easier for me to understand if you'd told me this was Thomas Cromwell, your protagonist.I got so twisted by the overuse of this pronoun, I had to stop reading.Picking up the audio version didn't make it any easier.I could keep the female straight - weren't that many - but the men ... not a one.

Back to basics for me.Thankfully, "The Brothers Karamazov" was next on my list.Now THAT one I could understand!

could have been but NOT
I love Tudor history and fiction so was excited about this one. BUT, agree with other reviewers that her use of pronouns was confusing. You were never sure what Cromwell was thinking or feeling. TOO LONG. Interesting to learn about Cromwell's family life but his cruelty was downplayed and of course we never get to see his downfall. I skimmed quite a bit just to see what else happened, but could not stay with it. Not a keeper - it goes to a used book store. Disappointing. ... Read more