Jewish Biographies:
Nobel Prize Laureates

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Established by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895, the Nobel Prize is a set of annual awards bestowed upon individuals in recognition of cultural and/or scientific advances in six categories - Literature, Chemistry, Economics, Physics, World Peace, and Medicine.

Between 1901 and 2012, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to approximately 850 laureates.
At least 177 of them have been Jewish.

In 2012, three Jewish laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize:
Robert Lefkowitz (Chemistry)  -  Serge Haroche (Physics)   -  Alvin Roth (Economics)

Literature

Chemistry

Economics


World Peace

Medicine


Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin (right) and President Shimon Peres accept the 1994 Nobel Prize in World Peace


Israeli mathmatician Robert Israel Aumann (second from right) accepts the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics


Israeli scientist Dan Schechtman (left) accepts the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry


Jewish American scientist Saul Perlmutter poses with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Physics

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 Sources: Dor LeDor, Jinfo, Israel Science and Technology, Wikipedia

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