- NOBEL PRIZES
- NOBEL PRIZES, awarded annually to men and women who have "rendered the greatest service to mankind." Since the inception of the prize in 1899 it has been awarded to the following Jews or people of Jewish descent. (See Table: Jewish Nobel Prize Winners.) jewish nobel prize winners Jewish Nobel Prize Winners nobel prizes Chemistry 1905 Adolph Von Baeyer 1981 Roald Hoffmann 1906 Henri Moissan 1982 Aaron Klug 1910 Otto Wallach 1989 Sidney Altman 1915 Richard Willstaetter 1992 Rudolph Arthur Marcus 1918 Fritz Haber 1994 George Olah 1943 George Charles de Hevesy 1996 Harold Kroto 1961 Melvin Calvin 1998 Walter Kohn 1962 Max Ferdinand Perutz 2000 Alan Heeger 1972 William Howard Stein (jointly with Dr. Stanford Moore) 2004 Aaron Ciechanover 1979 Herbert Brown 2004 Avram Hershko 1980 Paul Berg 2004 Irwin Rose 1980 Walter Gilbert Literature 1910 Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 1981 Elias Canetti 1927 Henri Bergson 1987 Joseph Brodsky 1958 Boris Pasternak 1991 Nadine Gordimer 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon 2002 Imre Kertész 1966 Nelly Sachs 2004 Elfriede Jelinek 1976 Saul Bellow 2005 Harold Pinter 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Physiology or Medicine 1908 Elie Metchnikoff 1972 Maurice Gerald Edelman 1908 Paul Ehrlich 1975 David Baltimore 1914 Robert Bárány 1975 Howard David Temin 1922 Otto Meyerhof 1976 Baruch Samuel Blumberg 1930 Karl Landsteiner 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1931 Otto Warburg 1978 Daniel Nathans 1936 Otto Loewi 1980 Baruj Benacceraf 1944 Joseph Erlanger 1984 Cesar Milstein 1944 Herbert Spencer Gasser 1985 Michael Stuart Brown 1945 Ernst Boris Chain 1985 Joseph Leonard Goldstein 1946 Herman Joseph Muller 1986 Stanley Cohen 1950 Tadeus Reichstein 1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini 1952 Selman Abraham Waksman 1988 Gertrude B. Elion 1953 Hans Krebs 1989 Harold Eliot Varmus 1953 Fritz Albert Lipmann 1992 Edmond Fischer 1958 Joshua Lederberg 1994 Alfred Gilman 1959 Arthur Kornberg 1994 Martin Rodbell 1964 Konrad Bloch 1997 Stanley Prusiner 1965 François Jacob 1998 Robert Furchgott 1965 Andre Lwoff 2000 Paul Greengard 1967 George Wald 2000 Eric Kandel 1968 Marshall W. Nirenberg 2002 Sydney Brenner 1969 Salvador Luria 2002 H. Robert Horvitz 1970 Julius Axelrod 2004 Richard Axel 1970 Sir Bernard Katz Physics 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson 1978 Peter Leonidovitch Kapitza 1908 Gabriel Lippmann 1978 Arno Penzias 1921 Albert Einstein 1979 Sheldon Glashow 1922 Niels Bohr 1979 Steven Weinberg 1925 James Franck 1988 Leon Lederman 1925 Gustav Hertz 1988 Melvin Schwartz 1943 Otto Stern 1988 Jack Steinberger 1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi 1990 Jerome Isaac Friedman 1952 Felix Bloch 1992 George Charpak 1954 Max Born 1995 Martin L. Perl 1958 Igor Tamm 1995 Frederick Reines 1959 Emilio Segrè 1996 David Lee 1960 Donald A. Glaser 1996 Douglas Osheroff 1961 Robert Hofstadter 1997 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 1962 Lev Davidovich Landau 2000 Zhores Alferov 1965 Richard Phillips Feynman 2003 Vitaly Ginzburg 1965 Julian Schwinger 2003 Alexei Abrikosov 1969 Murray Gell-Mann 2004 David Gross 1971 Dennis Gabor 2004 H. David Politzer 1973 Brian David Josephson (jointly with Ivan Giaver and Leon Esoki) 2005 Roy Glauber 1975 Benjamin R. Mottelson (jointly with Aage Bohr) World Peace 1911 Alfred Fried 1986 Elie Wiesel 1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1994 Yiẓhak Rabin 1968 René Cassin 1994 Shimon Peres 1973 Henry Alfred Kissinger 1995 Joseph Rotblat 1978 Menaḥem Begin Economics 1970 Paul Anthony Samuelson 1993 Robert Fogel 1971 Simon Kuznetz 1994 John Harsanyi 1972 Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1994 Reinhard Selten 1975 Leonid Kantorovich 1997 Robert Merton 1978 Herbert Alexander Simon 1997 Myron Scholes 1980 Lawrence Klein 2001 George Akerlof 1985 Franco Modigliani 2001 Joseph Stiglitz 1987 Robert M. Solow 2002 Daniel Kahneman 1990 Harry M. Markowitz 2005 Robert Aumann 1992 Gary S. Becker -WEBSITE: www.jinfo.org.
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