Entomologist To Get Wolf Prize In Agriculture

Entomologist, JOHN CASIDA, to get Wolf Prize in agriculture ROBERT W. PARRY, a University of Utah chemistry professor, has won the American Chemical Society's 1993 Priestley Medal Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will receive the 1993 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Since 1978, the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation has been granting four $100,000 prizes annually for individual achievements among the five fields of agriculture, chemistry, m

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Entomologist, JOHN CASIDA, to get Wolf Prize in agriculture

ROBERT W. PARRY, a University of Utah chemistry professor, has won the American Chemical Society's 1993 Priestley Medal

Pesticide Chemistry and Toxicology Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will receive the 1993 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Since 1978, the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation has been granting four $100,000 prizes annually for individual achievements among the five fields of agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. No prize in medicine will be awarded this year. The prizes will be presented on May 16 by Israeli President Chaim Herzog at the Knesset building in Jerusalem.

Casida, 63, is being honored by the Wolf Foundation for his research into the mode of action of insecticides, other pesticides, and toxicants. The award citation highlights his "unique contributions to basic science and to the development of safer pesticides for agricultural use."

Casida's lab, which ...

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