Two American Jews and a German won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, The New York Jewish Press reported, while one the two Nobel Prize in physics, awarded on Tuesday, is also Jewish.
The newest Jewish Nobel Prize winners in medicine are James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California. The third winner was Dr. Thomas Sudhof of Stanford University.
The third winner was Dr. Thomas Sudhof of Stanford University.
The three won the Nobel Prize for their insights into the traffic-control system for living cells — discoveries that the awards committee hopes will lead to future treatments for epilepsy, diabetes and immunological disorders.
Physicists François Englert of Belgium, a professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels, and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics ‘’for their discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.”
Englert, 80, who was raised in a Jewish family, is a Holocaust survivor. He is among others a Sackler Professor by Special Appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.
The university has had “a deep connection” with Englert for many years, a spokesperson told The Times of Israel.
More than 20 percent of the 800 Nobel Prize winners so far have been Jewish although Jews represent only 0.2 percent of the world’s population, the weekly newspaper noted.