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Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 214 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of ...
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (/ ˈ ɛ l i v iː ˈ z ɛ l / EL-ee vee-ZEL or / ˈ iː l aɪ ˈ v iː s əl / EE-ly VEE-səl; [3] [4] [5] Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ d ə ʃ ɛ k / GHY-də-shek; [1] September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru, [2] implying the existence of an infectious agent, which he named an 'unconventional ...
Michael Isaacson (b. 1946) composer of Jewish synagogue music. Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983), naturalized American film score composer of Polish-Jewish origin. Jerome Kern (1885–1945), composer and songwriter [8] Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day [10] Ezra Laderman (1924–2015) composer ...
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The following is a complete list of Israeli Nobel laureates. Year. Laureate (s) Prize motivation. Field. 1966. Shmuel Yosef Agnon. "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people " [1] Literature.
The three were Richard Kuhn, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1938; Adolf Butenandt, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1939; and Gerhard Domagk, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1939. They were later awarded the Nobel Prize diploma and medal, but not the money.[11] ^ In 1948, the Nobel Prize in Peace was not awarded.
Lists of Nobel laureates. One of the Nobel Prize medals in Physiology or Medicine awarded in 1950. Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationality.