Jewish Accomplishments

MEDICINE


Jonas Salk Discovered the first polio vaccine
Waldemar Haffkine Discovered the cure for cholera
Sigmund Freud Researched the human psyche
H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner 2002 NOBEL PRIZE "regulation of organ development"
Eric Kandel & Paul Greengard 2000 NOBEL PRIZE for "signal transduction"
Robert Furchgott 1998 NOBEL PRIZE "signaling molecules"
Stanley Prusiner 1997 NOBEL PRIZE for discovering "Prions"
Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell 1994 NOBEL PRIZE "G proteins"
Harold Varmus 1989 NOBEL PRIZE "origin of retroviral oncogenes
Gertrude Elion 1988 NOBEL PRIZE "principles for drug treatment"
Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi Montalcini 1986 NOBEL PRIZE "growth factors"
Joseph Goldstein & Michael Brown 1985 NOBEL PRIZE "regulation of cholesterol metabolism"
Cesar Milstein 1985 NOBEL PRIZE "production of monoclonal antibodies"
Baruj Benacerraf 1980 NOBEL PRIZE for "genetically determined cell structures"
Daniel Nathans 1978 NOBEL PRIZE "restriction enzymes"
Andrew Schally 1977 NOBEL PRIZE "peptide hormone production of the brain"
Rosalyn Yalow 1977 NOBEL PRIZE "radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones"
Baruch Blumberg 1976 NOBEL PRIZE "new mechanisms for the origin of diseases"
David Baltimore & Howard Temin 1975 NOBEL PRIZE "tumor viruses and genetic material"
Gerald Edelman 1972 NOBEL PRIZE "the chemical structure of antibodies"
Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz 1970 NOBEL PRIZE "humoral transmitters in nerve terminals"
Salvador Luria 1969 NOBEL PRIZE "replication and genetic structure of viruses"
Marshall Nirenberg 1968 NOBEL PRIZE "interpretation of the genetic code and it's function"
George Wald 1967 NOBEL PRIZE "physiological and chemical visual processes"
Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff 1965 NOBEL PRIZE "enzyme and virus synthesis"
Konrad Bloch 1964 NOBEL PRIZE "the regulation of cholesterol"
Arthur Kornberg 1959 NOBEL PRIZE "biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid"
Joshua Lederberg 1958 NOBEL PRIZE "organization of the genetic material of bacteria"
Hans Krebs 1953 NOBEL PRIZE discovery of the "citric acid cycle"
Fritz Lipmann 1953 NOBEL PRIZE for discovering "co-enzyme A"
Selman Waksman 1952 NOBEL PRIZE "antibiotic against tuberculosis"
Tadeus Reichstein 1950 NOBEL PRIZE "effects of hormones on the adrenal cortex"
Hermann Muller 1946 NOBEL PRIZE "production of mutations by means of X ray irradiation"
Ernst Boris Chain 1945 NOBEL PRIZE "for the discovery of penicillin"
Joseph Erlanger 1944 NOBEL PRIZE "functions of single nerve fibers"
Otto Loewi 1936 NOBEL PRIZE "chemical nature of nerve impulses"
Otto Warburg 1931 NOBEL PRIZE "research of the respiratory enzyme"
Karl Landsteiner 1930 NOBEL PRIZE "discovery of human blood groups"
Otto Meyerhof 1922 NOBEL PRIZE "muscle metabolism"
Robert Barany 1914 NOBEL PRIZE "physiology of the vestibular apparatus"
Paul Ehrlich & Eli Mechnikov 1908 NOBEL PRIZE "the human immune system"


CHEMISTRY


Barry Sharpless 2001 NOBEL PRIZE "chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
Alan Heeger 2000 NOBEL PRIZE "discovery conductive polymers"
Walter Kohn 1998 NOBEL PRIZE "the density-functional theory"
Harold Kroto 1996 NOBEL PRIZE "discovery of fullerenes"
Rudolph Marcus 1992 NOBEL PRIZE "contributions to electron transfer reactions"
Sidney Altman 1989 NOBEL PRIZE "discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle 1985 NOBEL PRIZE "crystal structures"
Aaron Klug 1982 NOBEL PRIZE "crystallographic electron microscopy"
Roald Hoffmann 1981 NOBEL PRIZE "theories on chemical reactions"
Paul Berg 1980 NOBEL PRIZE "biochemistry of nucleic acids"
Walter Gilbert 1980 NOBEL PRIZE "base sequences in nucleic acids"
Herbert Brown 1979 NOBEL PRIZE "compounds in organic synthesis"
Ilya Prigogine 1977 NOBEL PRIZE "theory of dissipative structures"
1972 NOBEL PRIZE William Stein "ribonuclease molecule structure"
1971 NOBEL PRIZE Gerhard Herzberg "geometry of molecules"
1962 NOBEL PRIZE Max Perutz "globular protein structure"
1961 NOBEL PRIZE Melvin Calvin "carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
1943 NOBEL PRIZE George de Hevesy "use of isotopes as tracers"
1918 NOBEL PRIZE Fritz Haber "the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"
1915 NOBEL PRIZE Richard Willstatter "plant pigments"
1910 NOBEL PRIZE Otto Wallach "pioneering work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
1906 NOBEL PRIZE Henri Moissan "isolation of the element fluorine"
1905 NOBEL PRIZE Johann von Baeyer "chemical industry advances"


PHYSICS


2003 NOBEL PRIZE Vitaly Ginzburg "theories of superconductors and superfluids"
1997 NOBEL PRIZE Claude Cohen-Tannoudji "trapping atoms with laser light"
1996 NOBEL PRIZE David M. Lee & Douglas Osheroff "superfluidity in helium"
1995 NOBEL PRIZE Martin Perl "discovery of the tau lepton"
1995 NOBEL PRIZE Frederick Reines "detection of the neutrino"
1992 NOBEL PRIZE Georges Charpak "invention of particle detectors"
1990 NOBEL PRIZE Jerome Friedman "investigating the quark model"
1988 NOBEL PRIZE Jack Steinberger, Mel Schwartz & Leon Lederman "neutrino beam method"
1979 NOBEL PRIZE Sheldon Glashow & Steven Weinberg "interaction between particles"
1978 NOBEL PRIZE Peter Kapits "inventions in the area of low temperature physics"
1978 NOBEL PRIZE Arno Penzias "discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
1976 NOBEL PRIZE Burton Richter "discovery of a heavy elementary particle"
1975 NOBEL PRIZE Ben Mottelson & Niels Bohr "particle motion in atomic nuclei"
1973 NOBEL PRIZE Brian Josephson "properties of a supercurrent"
1971 NOBEL PRIZE Dennis Gabor "the holographic method"
1969 NOBEL PRIZE Murray Gell-Mann "classification of elementary particles"
1967 NOBEL PRIZE Hans Bethe "discoveries of energy production in stars"
1965 NOBEL PRIZE Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger "quantum electrodynamics"
1963 NOBEL PRIZE Eugene Wigner "theories of the atomic nucleus"
1962 NOBEL PRIZE Lev Landau "theories of condensed matter"
1961 NOBEL PRIZE Robert Hofstadter "the structure of nucleons"
1960 NOBEL PRIZE Donald Glaser "the bubble chamber"
1959 NOBEL PRIZE Emilio Segre "discovery of the antiproton"
1958 NOBEL PRIZE Igor Tamm "interpreting the Cherenkov effect"
1954 NOBEL PRIZE Max Born "research in quantum mechanics"
1952 NOBEL PRIZE Felix Bloch "nuclear magnetic precision measurements"
1944 NOBEL PRIZE Isidor Rabi "recording the magnetic properties of nuclei"
1943 NOBEL PRIZE Otto Stern "the magnetic moment of the proton"
1925 NOBEL PRIZE James Franck & Gustav Hertz "impact of electrons on atoms"
1922 NOBEL PRIZE Niels Bohr "structure of atoms"
1921 NOBEL PRIZE Albert Einstein "for his service to Theoretical Physics"
1908 NOBEL PRIZE Gabriel Lippmann "photographic color reproduction"
1907 NOBEL PRIZE Albert Michelson "spectroscopic and meteorological investigations"

I am gonna add a few more here that I have found myself

Famous Actors

Michael Rosenbaum "Smallville"
Omri Katz "Hocus Pocus" "Journey into Night"
Adam Sandler Comedian/Actor (many movies)
Gideon Yago MTV DJ
Jake Gyllenhaal "The Day After Tomorrow"
Ben Stiller actor, director, producer, writer
Harrison Ford (let's just say he's done alot of them, 77 movies)

Famous Actresses

Judy Holliday (actress from the 50's and 60's)
Barbra Streisand (do I have to list everything here)?
Natalie Portman "The Professional" Star Wars I, II, & III"
Estelle Getty "The Golden Girls"
Bette Midler (too numerous to list)

I could go on and on here and I haven't even begun to list all the names. I think I would need another web site just for the list, so I will leave you with this site and you can check it out for your selves. I was amazed, you will be too! :D

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