Fractal Developer Wins Wolf Prize, Science Historian is Elected to Congress, Robert W. Holley - Obituary
Fractal Developer Wins Wolf Prize Science Historian Is Elected To Congress Robert W. Holley - Obituary Benoit B. Mandelbrot, a fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., will be awarded the 1993 Wolf Prize in Physics by the Israeli-based Wolf Foundation on May 16. Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation has been granting $100,000 prizes for individual achievements in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. This year, the prizes wil
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Since 1978, the Wolf Foundation has been granting $100,000 prizes for individual achievements in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, physics, and the arts. This year, the prizes will be presented by Israeli President Chaim Herzog at the Knesset building in Jerusalem.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Mandelbrot, 68, is being honored for showing how fractals can have practical applications in many disciplines. He is the author of The Fractal Geometry of Nature (New York, W.H. Freeman & Co., 1982). Fractals--geometric objects of a complex nature composed of simple, invariant geometric patterns--have been found useful to researchers in the diverse fields of astronomy,...
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