List of Israeli Nobel laureates
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Since 1966, There has been 12 Israeli persons who were awarded Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize is the most honorable award in the fields of peace, literature, physics, chemistry, medicines and economics which is a Sweden-based award. The following is a complete list of Israeli Nobel Laureates:
Laureates[edit]
| Year | Winner | Field | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Literature | “profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people” |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Peace | "for singing a peace treaty with Egypt" |
| 1994 | Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres | Peace | "for the peace talks that produced the Oslo Accords" |
| 2002 | Daniel Kahneman | Economics | for prospect theory |
| 2004 | Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko | Chemistry | "for discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| 2005 | Robert Aumann | Economics | "his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis" |
| 2009 | Ada E. Yonath | Chemistry | "her studies on the structure and function of the ribosome in cells" |
| 2011 | Dan Shechtman | Chemistry | "for his studies on atoms in rigid crystals" |
| 2013 | Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt | Chemistry | - |
References[edit]
- ^ "Nobel winners from Israel". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
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