Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (biology)
Jewish recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (biology) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 40% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
47 documented recipients
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
Source: Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Salvador Luria1912
Showed with Max Delbrück that bacteria mutate spontaneously (fluctuation test); co-founded the phage group; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 for discoveries on the replication and genetics…
Source: Wikipedia — Salvador Luria
Stephen Kuffler1913
Neuroscientist widely regarded as a founder of modern neuroscience for his work on neural signaling.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harry Eagle1905
Physician who developed Eagle's medium, a standard nutrient for growing cultured cells.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Theodore Puck1916
Geneticist who developed methods to grow and clone single mammalian cells, founding somatic cell genetics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Boris Ephrussi1901
Geneticist who pioneered the study of cytoplasmic (non-chromosomal) inheritance and somatic cell genetics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Seymour Benzer1921
Molecular biologist who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Charles Yanofsky1925
Geneticist who demonstrated the colinearity of a gene and the protein it encodes.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Heidelberger1888
Regarded as the father of modern immunochemistry for quantifying the antibody-antigen reaction.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Elvin Kabat1914
Immunochemist who was a founder of quantitative immunochemistry and antibody structure.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
César Milstein1927
Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Aaron Klug1982
Crystallographic Electron Microscopy
Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1982
Stanley Cohen1986
Growth Factors
Source: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Viktor Hamburger1900
Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rita Levi-Montalcini1986
Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF), first isolated in 1952; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986; senator for life of Italy from 2001
Source: Wikipedia — Rita Levi-Montalcini / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1986
Michael S. Brown1941
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Joseph Goldstein1940
With Michael Brown discovered the LDL receptor (1973) and how cells regulate cholesterol, the scientific basis of statin drugs; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1985
Source: Wikipedia — Joseph L. Goldstein / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1985
Donald Brown1931
Developmental biologist who pioneered the isolation and study of individual genes
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Mark Ptashne1940
Molecular biologist who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alfred Gilman1941
Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stephen Harrison1941
Structural biologist who determined the atomic structures of viruses
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Rossmann1930
Structural biologist who solved the first atomic structure of a virus and identified the Rossmann fold.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
Discovered prions, infectious agents made of misfolded protein alone, the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and scrapie; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997
Source: Wikipedia — Stanley Prusiner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1997
Arnold Levine1939
Molecular biologist who discovered the p53 tumor-suppressor protein, central to cancer biology.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Bert Vogelstein1949
Cancer geneticist who mapped the genetic mutations driving colorectal cancer progression.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Pierre Chambon1931
Molecular biologist who discovered split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
H. Robert Horvitz1947
Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Avram Hershko2004
Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Alexander Varshavsky1946
Biologist who discovered the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
James Rothman1950
Biochemist who uncovered the protein machinery of the SNAREs that lets vesicles dock and fuse with their targets inside cells; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
Source: Wikipedia — James Rothman
Randy Schekman1948
Cell biologist who used yeast genetics to find the genes that govern vesicle traffic and protein secretion in cells; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
Source: Wikipedia — Randy Schekman
Ada Yonath2009
Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Roger Kornberg2006
Biochemist who identified the nucleosome and captured the transcription machinery of eukaryotic cells in atomic detail; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
Source: Wikipedia — Roger Kornberg
Rosalind Franklin1952
DNA Structure Discovery (Photo 51)
Source: X-ray crystallography of DNA
Arthur Horwich1951
Biologist who discovered chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gary Ruvkun1952
Molecular biologist who, with Victor Ambros, discovered microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Nobel Prize in…
Source: Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024
Michael Rosbash1944
Geneticist who with Jeffrey Hall isolated the period gene and showed how its protein drives the feedback loop of the circadian clock; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
Source: Wikipedia — Michael Rosbash
Richard Losick1943
Molecular biologist known for work on gene regulation and bacterial development
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lucy Shapiro1940
Developmental biologist who revealed how bacterial cells control their cycle in space and time.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
S. Lawrence Zipursky1955
Neurobiologist, research on neural wiring and cell-recognition molecules
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Howard Cedar1943
Molecular biologist who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Felsenfeld1929
Biophysicist known for research on chromatin and gene regulation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aharon Razin1935
Biochemist who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey I. Gordon1947
Regarded as a founder of the study of the human gut microbiome
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Ronald M. Evans1949
Molecular biologist who discovered the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Drew Weissman2023
Physician and immunologist who with Katalin Karikó found the nucleoside base modifications that made mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 possible; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
Source: Wikipedia — Drew Weissman