170 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

October 14, 2011

Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Sweden to men and women who have rendered the greatest service to humankind.

Between the years 1901 and 2011, around 850 laureates have been awarded Nobel Prizes.

Of these, at least 170 are Jews.

Less than half of one percent of the world’s population is Jewish.

In 2011, five Jewish laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize: Daniel Schechtman, Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, Ralph Steinman and Bruce Beutler

Literature

1910 – Paul Heyse
1927 – Henri Bergson
1958 – Boris Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer
2001 – Imre Kertesz
2005 – Harold Pinter

World Peace

1911 – Alfred Fried
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel
Asser
1968 – Rene Cassin
1973 – Henry Kissinger
1978 – Menachem Begin
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
1995 – Joseph Rotblat

Chemistry

1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 – Henri Moissan
1910 – Otto Wallach
1915 – Richard
Willstaetter
1918 – Fritz Haber
1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
1961 – Melvin Calvin
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 – William Howard Stein
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
1980 – Paul Berg
1980 – Walter Gilbert
1981 – Roald Hoffmann
1982 – Aaron Klug
1985 – Herbert Hauptman
1985 – Jerome Karle
1989 – Sidney Altman
1992 – Rudolph Marcus
1998 – Walter Kohn
2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, Irwin Rose
2006 – Roger Kornberg
2009 – Ada Yonath
2011 – Daniel Schechtman

Economics

1970 – Paul Samuelson
1971 – Simon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Arrow
1973 – Wassily Leontief
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Simon
1980 – Lawrence Robert
Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Markowitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert Fogel
1994 – John Harsanyi
1997 – Myron Scholes
2001 – Joseph Stiglitz
2001 – George A. Akerlof
2002 – Daniel Kahneman
2005 – Robert Aumann
2007 – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin, Roger Myerson
2008 – Paul Krugman
2010 – Peter Diamond

Medicine

1908 – Elie Metchnikoff
& Paul Ehrlich
1914 – Robert Barany
1922 – Otto Meyerhof
1930 – Karl Landsteiner
1931 – Otto Warburg
1936 – Otto Loewi
1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
1944 – Joseph Erlanger
1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
1947 – Gerty Cori*
1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 – Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann
1958 – Joshua Lederberg
1959 – Arthur Kornberg
1964 – Konrad Bloch
1965 – Francois Jacob
& Andre Lwoff
1967 – George Wald
1968 – Marshall Nirenberg
1969 – Salvador Luria
1970 – Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz
1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 – David Baltimore &
Howard Temin
1976 – Baruch Blumberg
1977 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
& Andrew V. Schally
1978 – Daniel Nathans
1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
1984 – Cesar Milstein
1985 – Michael Stuart Brown
& Joseph Goldstein
1986 – Stanley Cohen
& Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 – Gertrude Elion
1989 – Harold Varmus
1994 – Alfred Gilman
& Martin Rodbell
1997- Stanley B. Prusiner
1998 – Robert Furchgott
2000 – Paul Greengard &
Eric Kandel
2002 – H. Robert Horvitz &
Sydney Brenner
2004 – Richard Axel
2006 – Andrew Fire
2011 – Ralph Marvin
Steinman
2011 – Bruce Beutler

Physics

1907 – Albert Abraham
Michelson
1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
1921 – Albert Einstein
1922 – Niels Bohr
1925 – James Franck &
Gustav Hertz
1943 – Otto Stern
1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
1945 – Wolfgang Pauli
1952 – Felix Bloch
1954 – Max Born#
1958 – Igor Tamm & Il’ja Mikhailovich Frank
1959 – Emilio Segrè
1960 – Donald A. Glaser
1961 – Robert Hofstadter
1962 – Lev Davidovich
Landau
1963 – Eugene Wigner
1965 – Richard Feynman &
Julian Schwinger
1967 – Hans Bethe
1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1971 – Dennis Gabor
1972 – Leon Cooper
1973 – Brian David Josephson
1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
1976 – Burton Richter
1978 – Arno Penzias; Pyotr Kapitsa
1979 – Stephen Weinberg; Sheldon Glashow
1988 – Leon Lederman; Melvin Schwartz; Jack Steinberger
1990 – Jerome Friedman
1992- Georges Charpak
1995 – Martin Perl ; Fredrick Reines
1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff ;
David M. Lee
1997 – Claude
Cohen-Tannoudji
2000 – Zhores I. Alferov
2003 – Vitaly Ginzburg; Alexei A. Abrikosov
2004 – H. David Politzer; David Gross
2005 – Roy Glauber
2011 – Saul Perlmutter
2011 – Adam Riess

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9 COMMENTS

By Zionista, October 19, 2011

Amazing!

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By maccabette, October 20, 2011

Truly an amazing people. SO much intelligence!

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By Peace Man, December 1, 2011

Less than half of one percent of the world’s population is Jewish and there are so many great contributors out there.

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By Peace Man, February 13, 2012

If the six million Jews who were killed were allowed to live, the world would have been a much better place today. Maybe there would be a cure for cancer. Maybe there would be cures for so many diseases.

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By maccabette, July 3, 2013

I agree if the holocaust didn’t happen, Jewish scientists would have developed so many more cures and discovered so much more!

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