List of Israeli Nobel laureates
Appearance
Since 1966, there have 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. The following is a complete list of Israeli Nobel Laureates:[1]
List
Year | Winner | Field | Contribution |
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1966 | Shmuel Yosef Agnon | Literature | "profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" |
1978 | Menachem Begin | Peace | "for signing 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 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 | "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems" |
See also
References
- ^ "Nobel winners from Israel". www.jpost.com. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
External links
Media related to Nobel laureates from Israel at Wikimedia Commons