Jewish Laureates of Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
Year | Nobel Laureate | Country of birth |
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2006 |
Fire, Andrew Z. "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA" |
USA |
2004 |
Axel, Richard "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" |
USA |
2002 |
Brenner, Sydney "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" |
South Africa |
2002 |
Horvitz, H. Robert "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" |
USA |
2000 |
Greengard, Paul "signal transduction in the nervous system" |
USA |
2000 |
Kandel, Eric R. "signal transduction in the nervous system" |
Austria |
1998 |
Furchgott, Robert F. "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system" |
USA |
1997 |
Prusiner, Stanley B. "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection" |
USA |
1994 |
Gilman, Alfred G. "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" |
USA |
1994 |
Rodbell, Martin "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" |
USA |
1989 |
Varmus, Harold E. "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" |
USA |
1988 |
Elion, Gertrude B. "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" |
USA |
1986 |
Cohen, Stanley "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
USA |
1986 |
Levi-Montalcini, Rita "for their discoveries of growth factors" |
Italy |
1985 |
Brown, Michael S. "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" |
USA |
1985 |
Goldstein, Joseph L. "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" |
USA |
1984 |
Milstein, Cesar "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" |
Argentina |
1980 |
Benacerraf, Baruj "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" |
Venezuela |
1978 |
Nathans, Daniel "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" |
USA |
1977 |
Schally, Andrew V. "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" |
Poland |
1977 |
Yalow, Rosalyn "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" |
USA |
1976 |
Blumberg, Baruch S. "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases" |
USA |
1975 |
Baltimore, David "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" |
USA |
1975 |
Temin, Howard M. "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" |
USA |
1972 |
Edelman, Gerald M. "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" |
USA |
1970 |
Axelrod, Julius "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" |
USA |
1970 |
Katz, Bernard "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" |
Germany |
1969 |
Luria, Salvador E. "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" |
Italy |
1968 |
Nirenberg, Marshall W. "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis" |
USA |
1967 |
Wald, George "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" |
USA |
1965 |
Jacob, Francois "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" |
France |
1965 |
Lwoff, Andre "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" |
France |
1964 |
Bloch, Konrad "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism" |
Germany |
1959 |
Kornberg, Arthur "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" |
USA |
1958 |
Lederberg, Joshua "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria" |
USA |
1953 |
Krebs, Hans Adolf "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle" |
Germany |
1953 |
Lipmann, Fritz Albert "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism" |
Germany |
1952 |
Waksman, Selman A. "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis" |
Russia |
1950 |
Reichstein, Tadeus "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects" |
Poland |
1947 |
Cori, Gerty Theresa, Radnitz "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" |
Czech Republic |
1946 |
Muller, Hermann J. "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation" |
USA |
1945 |
Chain, Ernst Boris "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" |
Germany |
1944 |
Erlanger, Joseph "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers" |
USA |
1936 |
Loewi, Otto "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses" |
Austria |
1930 |
Landsteiner, Karl "for his discovery of human blood groups" |
Austria |
1922 |
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle" |
Germany |
1914 |
Barany, Robert "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus" |
Austria |
1908 |
Ehrlich, Paul "for their work on immunity" |
Germany |
1908 |
Mechnikov, Elie "for their work on immunity" |
Russia |
Total number of Jewish Laureates: 49