The Wolf Foundation, based in Herzliyya, Israel, announced in January that Bertrand Halperin and Anthony Leggett will share the 2002–03 Wolf Prize in Physics and that Mikio Sato and John Tate are the joint recipients of the 2002–03 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. The awards will be conferred in a ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem in May; each pair of winners will split a $100 000 monetary prize.
The foundation is honoring Halperin and Leggett for their “seminal contributions to the broad range of structures and processes in condensed forms of matter.” These scientists have “provided a better understanding of the macroscopic properties of materials, which rely on non-intuitive quantum effects and the interactions that determine the properties of different states of matter and transitions between them.” The two men have conducted theoretical work, according to the foundation, that inspired experimentation and that has had “a significant impact on understanding...
