Wolf Foundation, Herzog announce 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, math
President Isaac Herzog and Acting Chair of the Wolf Foundation Council, Prof. Osnat Luxenburg, announced the eight Wolf Prize winners at the President's Residence in Jerusalem.
The Wolf Foundation has announced the 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The recipients were honored at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. President Isaac Herzog and Acting Chair of the Wolf Foundation Council, Prof. Osnat Luxenburg, made the announcement.
In the field of medicine, Prof. Charles S. Zuker of Columbia University was awarded the Wolf Prize for his groundbreaking research on taste perception. Zuker's experiments revealed that the ability to taste different flavors is determined by neural pathways connected to receptors on the tongue. His work has advanced our understanding of how humans detect and process various tastes.
In physics, Prof. Immanuel Bloch of Germany and Prof. Jun Ye of China jointly received the Wolf Prize. Ye is celebrated for developing the world's most stable and accurate atomic clocks, which have enabled unprecedented precision in measuring time. Bloch, on the other hand, played a crucial role in establishing quantum simulation as a significant area of modern physics. He achieved this by using ultracold atoms as a platform to simulate and study complex quantum systems.
In mathematics, Prof. David Kazhdan of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Joseph Bernstein of Tel Aviv University shared the Wolf Prize. Their pioneering work on representation theory, automorphic forms, and algebraic geometry laid the foundation for the development of geometric representation theory. Their contributions have had a profound impact on the field of mathematics.
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