Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

Nobel Prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation of Sweden to men and women who have rendered the greatest service to humankind.
Between 1901 and 2011, around 850 laureates have been awarded Nobel Prizes.
Of these, at least 170 are Jews.

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

Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and President Shimon Peres accept the Nobel Prize in Peace in 1994	Israeli mathmatician Robert Israel Aumann accepts the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2005

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