January 27, 2000

2 Scholars Win Wolf Prize for Research in Mathematics

By SUSAN GANLEY

The Wolf Foundation has announced that a professor from the United States and another from France will share the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Raoul Bott, of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., and Jean-Pierre Serre, of the Collège de France, will share the $100,000 prize.

The foundation said that Mr. Bott was being recognized for his research with quarks, an elementary particle found in protons and