Grande Médaille, French Academy of Sciences

Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille, French Academy of Sciences documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 48% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

48%of all recipients are Jewish

11 documented recipients

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LK

Leo Kadanoff1937

Physicist; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

RG

Richard Garwin1928

Physicist; designed the first hydrogen bomb and wide-ranging applied physics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

DG

David Gross1941

Physicist; discovered asymptotic freedom in QCD, Nobel Prize 2004

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

RM

Ronald M. Evans1949

Molecular biologist who discovered the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

PG

Peter Goldreich1939

Astrophysicist noted for work on planetary dynamics, planetary rings and orbital resonances

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

SS

Susan Solomon1956

Atmospheric chemist who explained the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

RW

Robert Weinberg1942

Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

AS

Adi Shamir2002

RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)

Source: Turing Award 2002

JL

Joel Lebowitz1930

Physicist; rigorous statistical mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

AV

Alexander Varshavsky1946

Biologist who discovered the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

MN

Michael N. Hall2023

Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences