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Jewish Nobel Prize Winners

[544] Albert Einstein -- The most famous and influential scientist of all time
[530] Paul Ehrlich -- Nobel prize for descovering a treatment for syphilis.
[399] Richard Feynman -- 'The greatest scientific mind since World War II '
[137] Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures
[118] Lev Landau -- Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
[128] Aaron Klug -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, for work on X-ray analysis of biomolecules
[64] Rita Levi-Montalcini -- winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on Nerve Growth factor (with Stanley Cohen)
[87] Elie Wiesel -- Jewish author: 'Night', winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace
[76] Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure
[62] Milton Friedman -- Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
[51] Yitzhak Rabin -- Prime Minister of Israel - Worker for Peace' Chief of Staff in Six Day War
[43] Franco Modigliani -- Italian-born economist, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Economics: saving and financial markets
[48] Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Author, Nobel Prize-winner for Literature
[50] Nadine Gordimer -- South African novelist, Nobel prize-winner in Literature
[44] Martin Perl -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: discoverer of the Tau Lepton
[23] Shimon Peres -- Israel's Labor party leader
[29] Arno Penzias -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, studied interstellar isotopes
[29] Elie Metchnikoff -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, studied immunity in infectious diseases
[29] Henri Bergson -- Author/Philosopher, Nobel prize for Literature
[15] Albert Michelson -- Nobel Prize for Physics 1907
[23] Hans Bethe -- Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967
[17] Selman Waksman -- Microbiologist, 1952 Nobel Prize winner in physiology and medicine
[20] Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Israeli writer, winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize: 'The Bridal Canopy'; `A Guest for the Night'
[21] John Harsanyi -- Winner of the Nobel prize in Economics: studied utilitarian ethics
[17] Joseph Brodsky -- Nobel Prize winner in literature, most famous modern poet
[17] David Baltimore -- Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
[19] Isaac Bashevis Singer -- 1978 Nobel Laureate in Literature: 'Enemies : A Love Story', 'The Golem', 'Meshugah'
[11] Paul Samuelson -- Nobel Prize in Economics (first ever)
[18] Baruch Blumberg -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: field of epidemiology
[18] Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, developed laser-cooling technology
[17] Bernard Katz -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, studied neuromuscular transmission
[17] Stanley Cohen -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, for work in experimental embryology
[16] Elias Canetti -- Bulgarian born essayist and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981
[9] Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
[9] Tadeus Reichstein -- Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
[11] George WALD -- Nobel Price in Medicine for work contributing to our understanding of vision.
[15] Cesar Milstein -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: field of immunology
[15] Hermann Muller -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for work on biological effects of radiation
[15] Stanley Prusiner -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for the discovery of Prions, infectious proteins
[13] Saul Bellow -- Canadian born novelist and Nobel Prize winner for lietature
[14] Howard Temin -- 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine
[13] Joseph Goldstein -- Nobel prize in Medicine
[14] Joshua Lederberg -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, discovered viral transduction
[14] David Lee -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: for work on superfluidity
[14] Jack Steinberger -- Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1988
[8] Georges Charpak -- won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 for his particle detector
[12] Isidor Rabi -- Nobel prize in physics in 1944
[13] Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse -- Nobel prize winner in Literature, 1830-1914
[13] Herbert Simon -- Nobel prize winner in Economics: for work on decision-making
[13] Nelly Sachs -- Poet, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature
[13] Andrew Schally -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: field of endocrinology
[13] Leon Lederman -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, 1988
[12] Herbert Brown -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: for his work in the borane-organoborane area
[12] Harold Kroto -- Nobel prize-winner in Chemistry, discoverer of C60
[12] Reinhard Selten -- Nobel prize winner in Economics: for work on 'game equilibrium models'
[12] Douglas Osheroff -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, for work in superfluidity
[12] Daniel Nathans -- Nobel prize in Medicine: for restriction analysis of Simian Virus 40 DNA
[12] Jack Steinberger -- Particle Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize
[12] Simon Kuznets -- Nobel prize winner in Economics
[11] Murray Gell-Mann -- Nobel prize in physics 1969. Introduced 'quarks'.