Wolf Award is one of the highest achievement awards in the world, which has the nature of lifetime achievement award. 1978 began to award prizes, usually once a year. The prize money of each prize is 65438+ million dollars, which can be divided among several people. From 1978 to 1990, 24 mathematicians have won the Wolf Prize in mathematics. Because wolf prize in mathematics has the nature of a lifetime achievement award, these 24 mathematicians are all famous contemporary mathematicians, and their achievements represent the level and progress of contemporary mathematics to some extent. Professor Chen Shengshen, a famous mathematician in China, won the Wolf Prize in May 1984, and Professor Wu Jianxiong, a Chinese American, won the Wolf Prize in Physics for the first time in May 1978. 199 1 year, Yang Xiangfa, a scientist from Taiwan Province Province, China, won the Wolf Agronomy Award, and Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", also won this honor in 2004. Chinese-American Qian Yongjian won the wolf prize in medicine in 2004. Qiu Chengtong won wolf prize in mathematics on 20 10. 20 1 1 Chinese-American professor Deng Qingyun won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. So far, China scientists have won the Wolff Prize in five other fields except the arts.

The Wolf Prize is held once a year.