Atoms for Peace Award
Jewish recipients of the Atoms for Peace Award documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 48% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
11 documented recipients
Niels Bohr1913
Physicist who gave the quantum model of the atom in 1913 and led Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics; Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
Source: Wikipedia — Niels Bohr
George de Hevesy1943
Pioneer of radioactive tracers in chemistry and biology and co-discoverer of hafnium; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943
Source: Wikipedia — George de Hevesy
Leo Szilard1933
Nuclear Chain Reaction Concept
Source: Einstein-Szilard Letter 1939
Eugene Wigner1902
Mathematical physicist; brought group theory and symmetry principles into quantum mechanics, theory of the nuclear force; Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
Source: Wikipedia — Eugene Wigner
Alvin Weinberg1915
Physicist; nuclear reactor design and molten-salt reactors
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Vladimir Veksler1907
Physicist; discovered the principle of phase stability for accelerators
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Isidor Rabi1944
Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei, the basis of NMR and later MRI; Nobel Prize in Physics 1944
Source: Wikipedia — Isidor Rabi
Bertrand Goldschmidt1967
French chemist of plutonium separation; co-founder of the CEA; Atoms for Peace Award (1967)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Atoms for Peace Award
Ben Mottelson1975
Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for nuclear structure; Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Henry Kaplan1918
Radiation oncologist who made Hodgkin's disease curable and co-developed the medical linear accelerator.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Mikhail Ioffe1969
Soviet plasma physicist (Ioffe bars); forced by the USSR to decline the Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Atoms for Peace Award