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Over 20% of all Nobel Prize winners were Jewish (who make up less than 1% of the world's population)
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international award first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[SUP][1][/SUP] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals,[SUP][2][/SUP] of whom at least 20% wereJews.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP]
Jews have been the recipients of all six Nobel prizes. The first Jewish recipient, Adolf von Baeyer, was awarded the prize in Chemistry in 1905. The most recent, Ada Yonath, was awarded the same prize in 2009.
Some Jewish laureates, including Elie Wiesel (who received the 1986 prize for Peace), are Holocaust survivors.[SUP][7][/SUP] The oldest ever Nobel laureate was Leonid Hurwicz, a Polish-American Jew who received the 2007 prize in Economics when he was 90 years old.[SUP][8][/SUP] Rita Levi-Montalcini is the oldest living Nobel laureate and the first ever to reach a 100th birthday.
Read the whole Wikipedia article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international award first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969.[SUP][1][/SUP] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals,[SUP][2][/SUP] of whom at least 20% wereJews.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP]
Jews have been the recipients of all six Nobel prizes. The first Jewish recipient, Adolf von Baeyer, was awarded the prize in Chemistry in 1905. The most recent, Ada Yonath, was awarded the same prize in 2009.
Some Jewish laureates, including Elie Wiesel (who received the 1986 prize for Peace), are Holocaust survivors.[SUP][7][/SUP] The oldest ever Nobel laureate was Leonid Hurwicz, a Polish-American Jew who received the 2007 prize in Economics when he was 90 years old.[SUP][8][/SUP] Rita Levi-Montalcini is the oldest living Nobel laureate and the first ever to reach a 100th birthday.
Read the whole Wikipedia article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates