Wolf Prize in Physics
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- Part of
- Wolf Prize
- Country
- Israel
- Main subject
- physics
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- Wolf Prize in Physics
- inception
- 1978-00-00
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Wolf Prize in Physics laureates
- review score
- 0.8
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wolf Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. 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 Wolf Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are often considered the second-most prestigious awards in those fields, after the Nobel Prize. The prize in physics has gained a reputation for identifying future winners of the Nobel Prize – from the 26 prizes awarded between 1978 and 2010, fourteen winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, five of those in the following year.
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