The global Jewish population is aproximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population. Proportionally, then, Jews have received an amazing number of Nobel Prizes (about 20% of all Nobel Prizes given out), including:
Literature
- 1910 – Paul Heyse
- 1927 – Henri Bergson
- 1958 – Boris Pasternak
- 1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- 1966 – Nelly Sachs
- 1976 – Saul Bellow
- 1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1981 – Elias Canetti
- 1987 – Joseph Brodsky
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer World
- 2001 – Imre Kertesz
- 2005 – Harold Pinter
- 2014 – Patrick Modiano
- 2016 – Bob Dylan
Peace
- 1911 – Alfred Fried
- 1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
- 1968 – Rene Cassin
- 1973 – Henry Kissinger
- 1978 – Menachem Begin
- 1986 – Elie Wiesel
- 1994 – Shimon Peres
- 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
- 1995 – Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry
- 1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
- 1906 – Henri Moissan
- 1910 – Otto Wallach
- 1915 – Richard Willstaetter
- 1918 – Fritz Haber
- 1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
- 1961 – Melvin Calvin
- 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
- 1972 – William Howard Stein
- 1977 – Ilya Prigogine
- 1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
- 1980 – Paul Berg
- 1980 – Walter Gilbert
- 1981 – Roald Hoffmann
- 1982 – Aaron Klug
- 1985 – Albert A. Hauptman
- 1985 – Jerome Karle
- 1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach
- 1988 – Robert Huber
- 1989 – Sidney Altman
- 1992 – Rudolph Marcus
- 2000 – Alan J. Heeger
- 2004 – Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose
- 2006 – Roger Kornberg
- 2009 – Ada Yonath
- 2011 – Dan Shechtman
- 2012 – Robert Lefkowitz
- 2013 – Arieh Washel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus
Economics
- 1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
- 1971 – Simon Kuznets
- 1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
- 1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
- 1976 – Milton Friedman
- 1978 – Herbert A. Simon
- 1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
- 1985 – Franco Modigliani
- 1987 – Robert M. Solow
- 1990 – Harry Markowitz
- 1990 – Merton Miller
- 1992 – Gary Becker
- 1993 – Robert Fogel
- 1994 – John Harsanyi
- 1997 – Myron Scholes
- 2001 – Joseph Stiglitz, George A. Akerlof
- 2002 – Daniel Kahneman
- 2005 – Robert Aumann
- 2007 – Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin & Roger Myerson
- 2008 – Paul Krugman
- 2009 – Elinor Ostrom
- 2010 – Peter Diamond
- 2012 – Alvin E. Roth
- 2016 – Oliver Hart
- 2017 – Richard Thaler
- 2018 – Richard Nordhaus
- 2019 – Michael Kremer
Medicine
- 1908 – Elie Metchnikoff
- 1908 – Paul Erlich
- 1914 – Robert Barany
- 1922 – Otto Meyerhof
- 1930 – Karl Landsteiner
- 1931 – Otto Warburg
- 1936 – Otto Loewi
- 1944 – Joseph Erlanger
- 1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
- 1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
- 1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
- 1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
- 1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
- 1953 – Hans Krebs
- 1953 – Fritz Albert Lipmann
- 1958 – Joshua Lederberg
- 1959 – Arthur Kornberg
- 1964 – Konrad Bloch
- 1965 – Francois Jacob
- 1965 – Andre Lwoff
- 1967 – George Wald
- 1968 – Marshall W. Nirenberg
- 1969 – Salvador Luria
- 1970 – Julius Axelrod, Sir Bernard Katz
- 1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
- 1975 – Howard Martin Temin
- 1976 – Baruch S. Blumberg
- 1977 – Roselyn Sussman Yalow
- 1978 – Daniel Nathans
- 1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
- 1984 – Cesar Milstein
- 1985 – Michael Stuart Brown
- 1985 – Joseph L. Goldstein
- 1986 – Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
- 1988 – Gertrude Elion
- 1989 – Harold Varmus
- 1991 – Erwin Neher
- 1991 – Bert Sakmann
- 1993 – Richard J. Roberts
- 1993 – Phillip Sharp
- 1994 – Alfred Gilman
- 1995 – Edward B. Lewis
- 1997- Stanley B. Prusiner
- 1998 – Robert Furchgott
- 2000 – Paul Greengard & Eric Kandel
- 2002 – H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner
- 2004 – Richard Axel
- 2016 – Andrew Fire
- 2011 – Ralph M. Steinman, Bruce Beutler
- 2013 – James E. Rothman, Randy Schekman
- 2017 – Michael Rosbash
Physics
- 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
- 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
- 1921 – Albert Einstein
- 1922 – Niels Bohr
- 1925 – James Franck
- 1925 – Gustav Hertz
- 1943 – Gustav Stern
- 1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
- 1952 – Felix Bloch
- 1954 – Max Born
- 1958 – Igor Tamm
- 1959 – Emilio Segre
- 1960 – Donald A. Glaser
- 1961 – Robert Hofstadter
- 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
- 1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman
- 1965 – Julian Schwinger
- 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
- 1971 – Dennis Gabor
- 1973 – Brian David Josephson
- 1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
- 1976 – Burton Richter
- 1978 – Arno Allan Penzias
- 1978 – Peter L Kapitza
- 1979 – Stephen Weinberg
- 1979 – Sheldon Glashow
- 1988 – Leon Lederman
- 1988 – Melvin Schwartz
- 1988 – Jack Steinberger
- 1990 – Jerome Friedman
- 1995 – Martin Perl
- 1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff, David M. Lee
- 1997 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
- 2000 – Zhores I. Alferov
- 2003 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Alexei A. Abrikosov
- 2004 – H. David Politzer, David Gross
- 2005 – Roy Glauber
- 2011 – Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter
- 2012 – Serge Haroche
- 2013 – Francois Englert
- 2016 – J. Michael Kosterlitz
- 2017 – Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish
- 2018 – Arthur Ashkin
To read a biography of any of these Prize winners, follow the links on the page Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates at the Jewish Virtual Library.
