Technion Prof Daniel Shechtman, 70, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, becoming the 10th Israeli Nobel Prize laureate.
Shechtman is a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, as well as an Associate of the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, and a professor at Iowa State University.
Other Nobel Prize laureates include;
Ada E. Yonath (Chemistry, 2009)
Robert Aumann (Economics, 2005)
Aaron Ciechanover (Chemistry, 2004)
Avram Hershko (Chemistry, 2004)
Daniel Kahneman (Economics, 2002)
Yitzhak Rabin (Peace, 1994)
Shimon Peres (Peace, 1994)
Menachem Begin (Peace, 1978)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Literature, 1966)
“Contrary to the previous belief that atoms were packed inside crystals in symmetrical patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that could not be repeated,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences statement explained.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
Three prizes for PEACE since ’78. How many Arab countries can make that claim?
Kol HaKavod!
And what have the PLO or Hamas or Hizbullah or Turkey develop. I know suicide bombers. And the nobel prizes do
favour Israel but know what life is about
The downside is that the probably reason for so many Jews winning Nobel prizes is that starting in the 19th century a large number of Jews made a conscious decision to switch from learning Torah to studying the secular hachmas (such as Chemistry or Economics or Literature), and took all the energy we previously spent on learning Torah and spent it on the goyish studies. While I’m not saying the the goyim’s sciences have no value (heck, they keep my family fed), think of what these people could have accomplished if they hadn’t given up learning full time.