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Jews have been awarded all six of the Nobel Foundation's awards: [3] Chemistry: 36 (19% of total) Economics: 38 (41% of total) Literature: 16 (13% of total) Peace: 9 (8% of total) Physics: 56 (25% of total) Physiology or Medicine: 59 (26% of total) Adolf von Baeyer, recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was Jewish on his mother's side ...
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books [115] Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi [116] Victoria Wolff (1903–1992), German born American writer and screenwriter [117] Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist [118] Anzia Yezierska, novelist [119]
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) [1] is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and ...
The John E Mack Institute. John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 – September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor of psychiatry. He served as the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 2004. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T.E. Lawrence.
This is a list of notable Jewish American poets. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans . Persons listed with a double asterisks (**) are winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
3. Website. The Shipler Report. David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, [1] also has garnered many awards.
James Albert Michener (/ ˈmɪtʃənər / or / ˈmɪtʃnər /; [2] February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history. Many of his works were ...
Nationality. American. Education. Cornell University (1965) Brandeis University (1971) Notable awards. Pulitzer Prize. 2006. David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the NYU School of Medicine, [1] and a professor in the Department of History at New York University.