Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world’s population and has received 128 Nobel Prizes:
3 min readJun 20, 2021
Literature:
- 1910 — Paul Heyse
- 1927 — Henri Bergson
- 1958 — Boris Pasternak
- 1966 — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- 1966 — Nelly Sachs
- 1976 — Saul Bellow
- 1978 — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1981 — Elias Canetti
- 1987 — Joseph Brodsky
- 1991 — Nadine Gordimer
World Peace:
- 1911 — Alfred Fried
- 1911 — Tobias Michael Carel Asser
- 1968 — Rene Cassin
- 1973 — Henry Kissinger
- 1978 — Menachem Begin
- 1986 — Elie Wiesel
- 1994 — Shimon Peres
- 1994 — Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
- 1905 — Adolph Von Baeyer
- 1906 — Henri Moissan
- 1907 — Albert Abraham Michelson
- 1908 — Gabriel Lippmann
- 1910 — Otto Wallach
- 1915 — Richard Willstaetter
- 1918 — Fritz Haber
- 1921 — Albert Einstein
- 1922 — Niels Bohr
- 1925 — James Franck
- 1925 — Gustav Hertz
- 1943 — Gustav Stern
- 1943 — George Charles de Hevesy
- 1944 — Isidor Issac Rabi
- 1952 — Felix Bloch
- 1954 — Max Born
- 1958 — Igor Tamm
- 1959 — Emilio Segre
- 1960 — Donald A. Glaser
- 1961 — Robert Hofstadter
- 1961 — Melvin Calvin
- 1962 — Lev Davidovich Landau
- 1962 — Max Ferdinand Perutz
- 1965 — Richard Phillips Feynman
- 1965 — Julian Schwinger
- 1969 — Murray Gell-Mann
- 1971 — Dennis Gabor
- 1972 — William Howard Stein
- 1973 — Brian David Josephson
- 1975 — Benjamin Mottleson
- 1976 — Burton Richter
- 1977 — Ilya Prigogine
- 1978 — Arno Allan Penzias
- 1978 — Peter L Kapitza
- 1979 — Stephen Weinberg
- 1979 — Sheldon Glashow
- 1979 — Herbert Charles Brown
- 1980 — Paul Berg
- 1980 — Walter Gilbert
- 1981 — Roald Hoffmann
- 1982 — Aaron Klug
- 1985 — Albert A. Hauptman
- 1985 — Jerome Karle
- 1986 — Dudley R. Herschbach
- 1988 — Robert Huber
- 1988 — Leon Lederman
- 1988 — Melvin Schwartz
- 1988 — Jack Steinberger
- 1989 — Sidney Altman
- 1990 — Jerome Friedman
- 1992 — Rudolph Marcus
- 1995 — Martin Perl
- 2000 — Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
- 1970 — Paul Anthony Samuelson
- 1971 — Simon Kuznets
- 1972 — Kenneth Joseph Arrow
- 1975 — Leonid Kantorovich
- 1976 — Milton Friedman
- 1978 — Herbert A. Simon
- 1980 — Lawrence Robert Klein
- 1985 — Franco Modigliani
- 1987 — Robert M. Solow
- 1990 — Harry Markowitz
- 1990 — Merton Miller
- 1992 — Gary Becker
- 1993 — Robert Fogel
Medicine:
- 1908 — Elie Metchnikoff
- 1908 — Paul Erlich
- 1914 — Robert Barany
- 1922 — Otto Meyerhof
- 1930 — Karl Landsteiner
- 1931 — Otto Warburg
- 1936 — Otto Loewi
- 1944 — Joseph Erlanger
- 1944 — Herbert Spencer Gasser
- 1945 — Ernst Boris Chain
- 1946 — Hermann Joseph Muller
- 1950 — Tadeus Reichstein
- 1952 — Selman Abraham Waksman
- 1953 — Hans Krebs
- 1953 — Fritz Albert Lipmann
- 1958 — Joshua Lederberg
- 1959 — Arthur Kornberg
- 1964 — Konrad Bloch
- 1965 — Francois Jacob
- 1965 — Andre Lwoff
- 1967 — George Wald
- 1968 — Marshall W. Nirenberg
- 1969 — Salvador Luria
- 1970 — Julius Axelrod
- 1970 — Sir Bernard Katz
- 1972 — Gerald Maurice Edelman
- 1975 — Howard Martin Temin
- 1976 — Baruch S. Blumberg
- 1977 — Roselyn Sussman Yalow
- 1978 — Daniel Nathans
- 1980 — Baruj Benacerraf
- 1984 — Cesar Milstein
- 1985 — Michael Stuart Brown
- 1985 — Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1986 — Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
- 1988 — Gertrude Elion
- 1989 — Harold Varmus
- 1991 — Erwin Neher
- 1991 — Bert Sakmann
- 1993 — Richard J. Roberts
- 1993 — Phillip Sharp
- 1994 — Alfred Gilman
- 1995 — Edward B. Lewis
- 1996- Lu RoseIacovino