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American Jewish Recipients of the Nobel Prize:

A Judaica Collection Exhibit


Introduction

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born on October 21, 1833, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a chemist, engineer and industrialist. He invented dynamite and more powerful explosives.

He died on December 10, 1896, leaving the bulk of his estate to the Alfred Nobel Foundation. The Foundation announces the winners of the Nobel Prize every year on the date he died.

There are five categories of Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This exhibit publicizes the great number of American Jews who have received this prestigious award and of their contributions to the United States of America and humanity.


Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Literature
1961-Melvin Calvin 1976-Saul Bellow
1972-Christian Anfinsen 1978-Isaac Bashevis Singer
1972-William Stein 1987-Joseph Brodsky
1980-Paul Berg  
1980-Walter Gilbert Nobel Peace Prize
1981-Roald Hoffman 1973-Henry Kissinger
1985-Herbert A. Hauptman  
1985-Jerome Karle Nobel Prize in Physics
2000-Alan Heeger 1907-Albert Abraham Michelson
2004-Irwin Rose 1921-Albert Einstein
2006-Roger Kornberg 1943-Otto Stern
  1944-Isidore Isaac Rabi
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952-Felix Bloch
1944-Herbert Spencer Gasser 1959-Emilio Segre
1944-Joseph Erlanger 1960-Donald A. Glaser
1946-Herman Joseph Muller 1961-Robert Hofstadter
1947-Gerty Cori 1963-Eugene Paul Wigner
1958-Joshua Lederberg 1965-Richard Feynman
1959-Arthur Kornberg 1965-Julian Schwinger
1967-George Wald 1967-Hans Bethe
1968-Marshall Nirenberg 1969-Murray Gell-Man
1970-Julius Axelrod 1972-Leon Neil Cooper
1975–David Baltimore 1978-Arno Allan Penzias
1975-Howard Temin 1979-Steven Weinberg
1976-Baruch Blumberg 1979-Sheldon Glashow
1977-Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1988-Leon Lederman
1978-Daniel Nathans 1988-Melvin Schwartz
1985-Michael Stuart Brown 1988-Jack Steinberger
1985-Joseph Goldstein 1990-Jerome Friedman
1986-Stanley Cohen 1995-Martin Perl
1988-Gertrude Elion 1995-Frederick Reines
1989-Harold Varmus 1996-Douglas D. Osheroff
1994-Alfred Gilman 1996-David M. Lee
1994-Martin Rodbell 2004-H. David Politzer
1997-Stanley B. Prusiner 2004-David Gross
1998-Robert Furchgott 2005-Roy Glauber
2000-Paul Greengard  
2002-H. Robert Horvitz  
2004-Richard Axel  


Other exhibits of interest:
American Jewish Heroes and Heroines From Colonial Times to 1900,
American Jewish Heroes and Heroines From 1900 to World War II,
American Jewish Heroes and Heroines From World War II to the Present ,
Jewish Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor,
Jewish Heroines of America: Colonial Times to World War II,
Jewish Heroines of America: World War II to the Present,
Rabbis as Chaplains in America's Military: A Tradition of Service, Dedication and Bravery, and
Jews in America's Military


For additional information, contact
Seymour "Sy" Brody
or
Special Collections and Archives
S.E. Wimberly Library



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