Nobel Prize
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As Indymedia does its best to push the idea that Jews are somehow ignorant or uneducated maybe you would like to see the list of Jewish Nobel Prize winners.
List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners
Nobel Prize in Physics
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Russia, for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids (Jewish mother)
Zhores Alferov, Russia, (Jewish mother)
Hans Bethe, US, (Jewish mother)
Felix Bloch, Swiss and US, for his development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
Niels Bohr, Denmark, for his quantum model of the atom (Jewish mother)
Max Born, Germany, UK and US, for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction
Georges Charpak, France
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, France,(Tunisian-Jewish parents)
Leon Neil Cooper, US,
Albert Einstein, German, later US, for theory of the photoelectric effect
Richard P. Feynman, US, for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles (Even though he has Jewish ancestry, he refused to be included in a list of "Jewish Nobel laureates" and "Jewish scientists" [1].)
James Franck, Germany, for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom
Ilya Frank, Russia, (Jewish father)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, US, for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics
Dennis Gabor, Hungary, for his invention and development of the holographic method
Murray Gell-Mann, US, for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Russia, for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
Donald Arthur Glaser, US, for the invention of the bubble chamber
Sheldon Lee Glashow, US, for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Roy Glauber, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
David Gross, US, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
Robert Hofstadter, US, for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons
Brian David Josephson, UK, for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effect
Lev Davidovich Landau, Russia, for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium
Leon Max Lederman, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
David Lee, US,
Gabriel Lippmann, France, for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference
Albert Abraham Michelson, US, for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid
Ben Roy Mottelson, US and Denmark,for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection
Douglas Osheroff, US, (Jewish father)
Wolfgang Pauli, (one non-Jewish grandparent)
Arno Allan Penzias, US, for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
Martin Lewis Perl, for the discovery of the tau lepton
David Politzer, US, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
Isidor Isaac Rabi, US, for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei
Frederick Reines, US,
Burton Richter, US, for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind
Arthur Schawlow, US, (Jewish father)
Melvin Schwartz, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Julian Schwinger, US, for his work on quantum electrodynamics
Emilio Segrè, Italy and US, for discovery of antiproton
Jack Steinberger, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Otto Stern, US, for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton
Steven Weinberg, US, for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Eugene Wigner, US, Nuclear Engineering
[Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sidney Altman, Canada, discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Christian Anfinsen, US, work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (convert)
Adolf von Baeyer, Germany, for services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds (Jewish mother)
Paul Berg, US, for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
Herbert Brown, Ukraine, development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis
Melvin Calvin, US, research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
Aaron Ciechanover, Israel, 2004, for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Walter Gilbert, US, contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Fritz Haber, Germany, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements (converted to Christianity)
Herbert Hauptman, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
Alan Heeger, US, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
Avram Hershko, Israel, 2004, for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
George de Hevesy, Hungary, the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes
Roald Hoffmann (1937 - ) American, for theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions (1981)[2]
Jerome Karle, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
Aaron Klug, Lithuania, development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
Walter Kohn, Austria, for his development of the density-functional theory
Roger Kornberg, US, for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Harold Kroto, UK, (Jewish father)
Rudolph Marcus, Canada, contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
Henri Moissan, France, for investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him (Jewish mother)
[citation needed]George Olah, Hungary, for his contribution to carbocation chemistry (unconfirmed)
Max Perutz, Austria, studies of the structures of globular proteins
John Polanyi, German-born British Canadian chemist, (1986), (Jewish father),
Viscount Ilya Prigogine, Belgium, contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures
Irwin Rose, US, for the discovery of ubiquitin -mediated protein degradation
William Stein, US, contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule
Otto Wallach, Germany, pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds
Richard Willstatter, Germany, for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Richard Axel, US, discoveries concerning the celular and molecular organization of the olfactory system.
Julius Axelrod, US, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
David Baltimore, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
Robert Bárány, Austria and later Sweden,
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuela, discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions
Konrad Bloch, Germany, discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Baruch Blumberg, US, discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
Sydney Brenner, South Africa, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Michael Brown, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
Ernst Chain, Germany, discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
Stanley Cohen, US, discoveries of growth factors
Gerty Cori, US (born in Prague), discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (born Jewish but converted to Catholicism when she married)
Gerald Edelman, US, discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
Paul Ehrlich, Germany, for work on immunity
Gertrude Elion, US, discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
Joseph Erlanger, US, for discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
Andrew Fire
Edmond H. Fischer, US, (Jewish father)
Robert Furchgott, US, discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system
Herbert Gasser, US, (Jewish father)
Alfred Gilman, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
Joseph Goldstein, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
Paul Greengard, US, for signal transduction in the nervous system
Robert Horvitz, US, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Francois Jacob, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Eric Kandel, Austria, for signal transduction in the nervous system
Bernard Katz, Germany, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
Arthur Kornberg, US, discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Hans Adolf Krebs, Germany, discovery of the citric acid cycle
Karl Landsteiner, Austria, for discovery of human blood groups
Joshua Lederberg, US, discovered genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italy, discoveries of growth factors
Fritz Lipmann, Germany, discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism
Otto Loewi, Austria, for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Salvador Luria, Italy, discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
Andre Lwoff, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, France, (Jewish mother)
Otto Meyerhof, Germany, for discovery of the relationship between consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle
Cesar Milstein, Argentina, theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Hermann Muller, US, discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation (Jewish mother)
Daniel Nathans, US, discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Marshall Nirenberg, US, interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Stanley Prusiner, US, discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
Tadeus Reichstein, Poland, discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
Martin Rodbell, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
Andrew Schally, Lithuania, discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
Howard Temin, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
John Vane, UK, (Jewish father)
Harold Varmus, US, discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Selman Waksman, Russia, discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
George Wald, US, discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye
Otto Warburg, Germany, (Jewish father)
Rosalyn Yalow, US, for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
George Akerlof (2001), American economist, (Jewish mother)
Kenneth Arrow (1972), American economist,
Robert J. Aumann (2005), German-born American Israeli mathematician, game theory,
Gary Becker (1992), American economist,
Robert Fogel (1993), American economist,
Milton Friedman (1976), American economist,
John Harsanyi (1994), Hungarian-born American economist,
Daniel Kahneman (2002), Israeli-born French American psychologist,
Leonid Kantorovich (1975) Russian mathematician, linear programming
Lawrence Klein (1980), American economist,
Simon Kuznets (1971), Ukrainian-born American economist,
Wassily Leontief (1973), Russian-born American economist, (Jewish mother)
Harry Markowitz (1990), American economist,
Robert Merton, (1997), American economist, (Jewish father),
Merton Miller (1990), American economist,
Franco Modigliani (1985), Italian-born American economist,
Herbert Simon (1978), American scientist, (Jewish father)
Paul Samuelson (1970), American economist,
Myron Scholes (1997), Canadian-born American economist,
Robert Solow (1987), American economist,
Joseph Stiglitz (2001), American economist,
[edit] Nobel Prize in Literature
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, German writer, (Jewish mother), 1910
Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1958
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, 1958
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer, 1966
Nelly Sachs, German poet and dramatist, 1966
Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American writer, 1976
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American writer, 1978
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British-Austrian novelist, 1981
Joseph Brodsky, Russian American writer and poet, 1987
Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, 1991
Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, 2002
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author, 2004
Harold Pinter, British playwright and theatre director, 2005
[edit] Nobel Peace Prize
Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, 1911
Alfred Fried, Austrian pacifist, journalist, co-founder of German peace movement, 1911
René Cassin, French jurist, drafted Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1968
Henry Kissinger, German-born American Secretary of State (1973-77) 1973
Menachem Begin, Belarusian-born Israeli Prime Minister (1977-83) 1978
Avi Rosner, American, drafted TBA, Organization founder, philanthropist 2105
Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born French American writer, for his written accounts of the Holocaust, 1986
Shimon Peres, Belarusian-born Israeli Prime Minister (1986-88 1995-96) 1994
Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister (1974-77 1992-95) 1994
Sir Joseph Rotblat, Polish founder of Pugwash Conferences, 1995,
[edit] Nobel Prize for organizations
Ludwik Rajcman, founder of UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Prize in 1965
Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International Prize in 1977 (baptized)
Bernard Lown, co-founder of IPPNW International Physicians for Prevent of Nuclear War Prize in 1985
Poc Chernine, founder of Pugwash Conferences Prize in 1995
Bernard Kouchner, Médecins Sans Frontières Prize in 1999 (Jewish father)
[edit] Nobel Prize winners with one Jewish grandparent
Willem Einthoven, medicine 1924 (Jewish paternal grandfather)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physics 1963 (Jewish grandparent)
Aage Bohr, physics 1975 (Jewish paternal grandmother)
Betty Williams, peace 1976 (Jewish maternal grandfather)
Nobel Prize in Physics
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov, Russia, for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids (Jewish mother)
Zhores Alferov, Russia, (Jewish mother)
Hans Bethe, US, (Jewish mother)
Felix Bloch, Swiss and US, for his development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
Niels Bohr, Denmark, for his quantum model of the atom (Jewish mother)
Max Born, Germany, UK and US, for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction
Georges Charpak, France
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, France,(Tunisian-Jewish parents)
Leon Neil Cooper, US,
Albert Einstein, German, later US, for theory of the photoelectric effect
Richard P. Feynman, US, for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles (Even though he has Jewish ancestry, he refused to be included in a list of "Jewish Nobel laureates" and "Jewish scientists" [1].)
James Franck, Germany, for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom
Ilya Frank, Russia, (Jewish father)
Jerome Isaac Friedman, US, for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics
Dennis Gabor, Hungary, for his invention and development of the holographic method
Murray Gell-Mann, US, for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Russia, for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
Donald Arthur Glaser, US, for the invention of the bubble chamber
Sheldon Lee Glashow, US, for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Roy Glauber, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
David Gross, US, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
Robert Hofstadter, US, for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons
Brian David Josephson, UK, for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effect
Lev Davidovich Landau, Russia, for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium
Leon Max Lederman, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
David Lee, US,
Gabriel Lippmann, France, for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference
Albert Abraham Michelson, US, for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid
Ben Roy Mottelson, US and Denmark,for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection
Douglas Osheroff, US, (Jewish father)
Wolfgang Pauli, (one non-Jewish grandparent)
Arno Allan Penzias, US, for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation
Martin Lewis Perl, for the discovery of the tau lepton
David Politzer, US, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
Isidor Isaac Rabi, US, for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei
Frederick Reines, US,
Burton Richter, US, for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind
Arthur Schawlow, US, (Jewish father)
Melvin Schwartz, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Julian Schwinger, US, for his work on quantum electrodynamics
Emilio Segrè, Italy and US, for discovery of antiproton
Jack Steinberger, US, for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino
Otto Stern, US, for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton
Steven Weinberg, US, for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Eugene Wigner, US, Nuclear Engineering
[Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sidney Altman, Canada, discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Christian Anfinsen, US, work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (convert)
Adolf von Baeyer, Germany, for services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds (Jewish mother)
Paul Berg, US, for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA
Herbert Brown, Ukraine, development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis
Melvin Calvin, US, research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
Aaron Ciechanover, Israel, 2004, for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Walter Gilbert, US, contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Fritz Haber, Germany, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements (converted to Christianity)
Herbert Hauptman, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
Alan Heeger, US, for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
Avram Hershko, Israel, 2004, for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
George de Hevesy, Hungary, the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes
Roald Hoffmann (1937 - ) American, for theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions (1981)[2]
Jerome Karle, US, development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
Aaron Klug, Lithuania, development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
Walter Kohn, Austria, for his development of the density-functional theory
Roger Kornberg, US, for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
Harold Kroto, UK, (Jewish father)
Rudolph Marcus, Canada, contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
Henri Moissan, France, for investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him (Jewish mother)
[citation needed]George Olah, Hungary, for his contribution to carbocation chemistry (unconfirmed)
Max Perutz, Austria, studies of the structures of globular proteins
John Polanyi, German-born British Canadian chemist, (1986), (Jewish father),
Viscount Ilya Prigogine, Belgium, contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures
Irwin Rose, US, for the discovery of ubiquitin -mediated protein degradation
William Stein, US, contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule
Otto Wallach, Germany, pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds
Richard Willstatter, Germany, for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Richard Axel, US, discoveries concerning the celular and molecular organization of the olfactory system.
Julius Axelrod, US, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
David Baltimore, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
Robert Bárány, Austria and later Sweden,
Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuela, discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions
Konrad Bloch, Germany, discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Baruch Blumberg, US, discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
Sydney Brenner, South Africa, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Michael Brown, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
Ernst Chain, Germany, discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
Stanley Cohen, US, discoveries of growth factors
Gerty Cori, US (born in Prague), discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (born Jewish but converted to Catholicism when she married)
Gerald Edelman, US, discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
Paul Ehrlich, Germany, for work on immunity
Gertrude Elion, US, discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
Joseph Erlanger, US, for discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers
Andrew Fire
Edmond H. Fischer, US, (Jewish father)
Robert Furchgott, US, discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system
Herbert Gasser, US, (Jewish father)
Alfred Gilman, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
Joseph Goldstein, US, discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
Paul Greengard, US, for signal transduction in the nervous system
Robert Horvitz, US, discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
Francois Jacob, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Eric Kandel, Austria, for signal transduction in the nervous system
Bernard Katz, Germany, discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
Arthur Kornberg, US, discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
Hans Adolf Krebs, Germany, discovery of the citric acid cycle
Karl Landsteiner, Austria, for discovery of human blood groups
Joshua Lederberg, US, discovered genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italy, discoveries of growth factors
Fritz Lipmann, Germany, discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism
Otto Loewi, Austria, for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Salvador Luria, Italy, discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses
Andre Lwoff, France, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, France, (Jewish mother)
Otto Meyerhof, Germany, for discovery of the relationship between consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle
Cesar Milstein, Argentina, theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies
Hermann Muller, US, discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation (Jewish mother)
Daniel Nathans, US, discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
Marshall Nirenberg, US, interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
Stanley Prusiner, US, discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
Tadeus Reichstein, Poland, discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
Martin Rodbell, US, discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
Andrew Schally, Lithuania, discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
Howard Temin, US, discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell
John Vane, UK, (Jewish father)
Harold Varmus, US, discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
Selman Waksman, Russia, discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
George Wald, US, discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye
Otto Warburg, Germany, (Jewish father)
Rosalyn Yalow, US, for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
George Akerlof (2001), American economist, (Jewish mother)
Kenneth Arrow (1972), American economist,
Robert J. Aumann (2005), German-born American Israeli mathematician, game theory,
Gary Becker (1992), American economist,
Robert Fogel (1993), American economist,
Milton Friedman (1976), American economist,
John Harsanyi (1994), Hungarian-born American economist,
Daniel Kahneman (2002), Israeli-born French American psychologist,
Leonid Kantorovich (1975) Russian mathematician, linear programming
Lawrence Klein (1980), American economist,
Simon Kuznets (1971), Ukrainian-born American economist,
Wassily Leontief (1973), Russian-born American economist, (Jewish mother)
Harry Markowitz (1990), American economist,
Robert Merton, (1997), American economist, (Jewish father),
Merton Miller (1990), American economist,
Franco Modigliani (1985), Italian-born American economist,
Herbert Simon (1978), American scientist, (Jewish father)
Paul Samuelson (1970), American economist,
Myron Scholes (1997), Canadian-born American economist,
Robert Solow (1987), American economist,
Joseph Stiglitz (2001), American economist,
[edit] Nobel Prize in Literature
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, German writer, (Jewish mother), 1910
Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1958
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, 1958
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer, 1966
Nelly Sachs, German poet and dramatist, 1966
Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American writer, 1976
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born American writer, 1978
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born British-Austrian novelist, 1981
Joseph Brodsky, Russian American writer and poet, 1987
Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, 1991
Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, 2002
Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian author, 2004
Harold Pinter, British playwright and theatre director, 2005
[edit] Nobel Peace Prize
Tobias Asser, Dutch jurist, 1911
Alfred Fried, Austrian pacifist, journalist, co-founder of German peace movement, 1911
René Cassin, French jurist, drafted Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1968
Henry Kissinger, German-born American Secretary of State (1973-77) 1973
Menachem Begin, Belarusian-born Israeli Prime Minister (1977-83) 1978
Avi Rosner, American, drafted TBA, Organization founder, philanthropist 2105
Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born French American writer, for his written accounts of the Holocaust, 1986
Shimon Peres, Belarusian-born Israeli Prime Minister (1986-88 1995-96) 1994
Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister (1974-77 1992-95) 1994
Sir Joseph Rotblat, Polish founder of Pugwash Conferences, 1995,
[edit] Nobel Prize for organizations
Ludwik Rajcman, founder of UNICEF United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Prize in 1965
Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International Prize in 1977 (baptized)
Bernard Lown, co-founder of IPPNW International Physicians for Prevent of Nuclear War Prize in 1985
Poc Chernine, founder of Pugwash Conferences Prize in 1995
Bernard Kouchner, Médecins Sans Frontières Prize in 1999 (Jewish father)
[edit] Nobel Prize winners with one Jewish grandparent
Willem Einthoven, medicine 1924 (Jewish paternal grandfather)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, physics 1963 (Jewish grandparent)
Aage Bohr, physics 1975 (Jewish paternal grandmother)
Betty Williams, peace 1976 (Jewish maternal grandfather)
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