Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Page 1 of 3 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners The 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 2004, more than 740 Nobel Prizes were handed out. Of these, at least 156 are Jews. Literature World Peace z 1910 - Paul Heyse z 1911 - Alfred Fried z 1927 - Henri Bergson z 1911 - Tobias Michael z 1958 - Boris Pasternak Carel Asser z 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon z 1968 - Rene Cassin z 1966 - Nelly Sachs z 1973 - Henry Kissinger z 1976 - Saul Bellow z 1978 - Menachem Begin z 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer z 1986 - Elie Wiesel z 1981 - Elias Canetti z 1994 - Shimon Peres z 1987 - Joseph Brodsky z 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin z 1991 - Nadine Gordimer z 1995 - Joseph Rotblat z 2001- Imre Kertesz Chemistry Economics z 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer z 1970 - Paul Samuelson http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html 10/10/2005 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Page 2 of 3 z 1906 - Henri Moissan z 1971 - Simon Kuznets z 1910 - Otto Wallach z 1972 - Kenneth Arrow z 1915 - Richard Willstaetter z 1973 - Wassily Leontief z 1918 - Fritz Haber z 1975 - Leonid z 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy Kantorovich z 1961 - Melvin Calvin z 1976 - Milton Friedman z 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz z 1978 - Herbert A. z 1972 - William Howard Stein Simon z 1977 - Ilya Prigogine z 1980 - Lawrence Robert z 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown Klein z 1980 - Paul Berg z 1985 - Franco z 1980 - Walter Gilbert Modigliani z 1981 - Roald Hoffmann z 1987 - Robert M. Solow z 1982 - Aaron Klug z 1990 - Harry Markowitz z 1985 - Herbert Hauptman z 1990 - Merton Miller z 1985 - Jerome Karle z 1992 - Gary Becker z 1989 - Sidney Altman z 1993 - Robert Fogel z 1992 - Rudolph Marcus z 1994- John Harsanyi z 2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron z 1997- Myron S. Scholes Ciechanover and Irwin Rose z 2001- Joseph Stiglitz z 2001- George A. Akerlof z 2002- Daniel Kahneman Medicine Physics z 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff z 1907 - Albert Abraham z 1908 - Paul Ehrlich Michelson z 1914 - Robert Barany z 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann z 1922 - Otto Meyerhof z 1921 - Albert Einstein z 1930 - Karl Landsteiner z 1922 - Niels Bohr z 1931 - Otto Warburg z 1925 - James Franck z 1936 - Otto Loewi z 1925 - Gustav Hertz z 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser z 1943 - Otto Stern z 1944 - Joseph Erlanger z 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi z 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain z 1945- Wolfgang Pauli z 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller z 1952 - Felix Bloch z 1947- Gerty Cori and Theresa z 1954 - Max Born Radnitz z 1958 - Igor Tamm z 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein z 1958 - Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank z 1952 - Selman Abraham z 1959 - Emilio Segrè Waksman z 1960 - Donald A. Glaser z 1953 - Hans Krebs z 1961 - Robert Hofstadter z 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann z 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau z 1958 - Joshua Lederberg z 1963 - Eugene P. Wigner z 1959 - Arthur Kornberg z 1965 - Richard Phillips z 1964 - Konrad Bloch Feynman z 1965 - Francois Jacob z 1965 - Julian Schwinger http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html 10/10/2005 Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Page 3 of 3 z 1965 - Andre Lwoff z 1967- Hans Albrecht Bethe z 1967 - George Wald z 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann z 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg z 1971 - Dennis Gabor z 1969 - Salvador Luria z 1972- Leon N. Cooper z 1970 - Julius Axelrod z 1973 - Brian David Josephson z 1970 - Bernard Katz z 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson z 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman z 1976 - Burton Richter z 1975 - David Baltimore z 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias z 1975 - Howard Martin Temin z 1978 - Peter L Kapitza z 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg z 1979 - Stephen Weinberg z 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow z 1979 - Sheldon Glashow z 1977- Andrew V. Schally z 1988 - Leon Lederman z 1978 - Daniel Nathans z 1988 - Melvin Schwartz z 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf z 1988 - Jack Steinberger z 1984 - Cesar Milstein z 1990 - Jerome Friedman z 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown z 1992- Georges Charpak z 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein z 1995 - Martin Perl & Fredrick z 1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Reines Levi-Montalcini z 1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff z 1988 - Gertrude Elion z 1996 - David M. Lee z 1989 - Harold Varmus z 1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji z 1994 - Alfred Gilman & Martin z 2000 - Zhores I. Alferov Rodbell z 2003 - Vitaly Ginzburg & z 1997- Stanley B. Prusiner Alexei A. Abrikosov z 1998 - Robert F. Furchgott z 2004 - H. David Politzer & z 2000 - Paul Greengard David Gross z 2002 - H. Robert Horvitz z 2002 - Sydney Brenner Source: Dor LeDor, Jinfo, and Israel Science and Technology http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html 10/10/2005.