{"id":634928,"date":"2026-10-03T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T06:06:08","slug":"wolf-foundation-isaac-herzog-announce-2026-wolf-prize-laureates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634928\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Foundation, Isaac Herzog announce 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolf Foundation announced the 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates on Thursday, recognizing scientists from around the world who made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/health-and-wellness-around-the-world\/article-906891\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breakthroughs in medicine<\/a>, physics, chemistry, and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>President Isaac Herzog and Acting Chair of the Wolf Foundation Council, Prof. Osnat Luxenburg, announced the eight Wolf Prize winners at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-905699\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President&#8217;s Residence in Jerusalem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Wolf Prize in Medicine was awarded to Columbia University\u2019s Prof. Charles S. Zuker for his research on the cells that allow humans to taste different flavors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Zuker\u2019s experiments uncovered that taste perception is determined through neural pathways connected to receptors on the tongue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Wolf Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to German physicist Prof. Immanuel Bloch and Chinese-born physicist Prof. Jun Ye for their work in the field of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ye led the development of the world\u2019s most stable and accurate atomic clocks, allowing scientists to measure time with unprecedented precision.<\/p>\n<p>Bloch helped to establish quantum simulation as a major field of modern physics by transforming ultracold atoms into a powerful platform for simulating and investigating complex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/tech-and-start-ups\/article-904774\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantum systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Wolf Prize in Mathematics was awarded jointly to Israeli mathematicians Prof. David Kazhdan of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Joseph Bernstein of Tel Aviv University &#8220;for foundational work on representation theory, automorphic forms and algebraic geometry, and their role in creating geometric representation theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wolf Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to German physicist Prof. Immanuel Bloch and Chinese-born physicist Prof. Jun Ye for their work in the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-903971\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quantum physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wolf Foundation announced the 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates on Thursday, recognizing scientists from around the world who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,2894,46,15583,43,370,141,40,38,41,39,230162],"class_list":["post-634928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-isaac-herzog","tag-israel","tag-math","tag-news","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wolf-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}