Premio Wolf (todas las disciplinas)
Galardonados judíos del Premio Wolf (todas las disciplinas) documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 35 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
120 galardonados documentados
Michael Fisher1931
Chemical physicist conocido por statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Leo Kadanoff1937
Físico; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Victor Weisskopf1908
Físico; quantum electrodynamics and nuclear physics, director-general of CERN
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leon Lederman1922
Experimental physicist que descubrió the muon neutrino and the bottom quark, dirigió Fermilab and championed science teaching; Premio Nobel de Física 1988
Fuente: Wikipedia — Leon Lederman
Martin Perl1927
Físico; descubrió the tau lepton, Premio Nobel 1995
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Erwin Hahn1921
Físico que descubrió the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Peter Hirsch1925
Metallurgist, pionero de electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Theodore Maiman1927
Físico; construyó the first working laser
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum1944
Físico; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Albert Libchaber1934
Físico; experimental confirmation of the route to chaos
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Herbert Friedman1916
Pionero de space-based solar and X-ray astronomy using rocket-borne instruments
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Bruno Rossi1905
Físico; cosmic-ray physics and founding of X-ray astronomy
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Maurice Goldhaber1911
Físico; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Valentine Telegdi1922
Físico; parity violation and precision particle experiments
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Benoit Mandelbrot1924
Matemático que fundó fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Vitaly Ginzburg1916
Físico; Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity (1950), Premio Nobel de Física 2003
Fuente: Wikipedia — Vitaly Ginzburg
Yakir Aharonov1932
Físico; codescubrió the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Michael Berry1941
Físico; descubrió the geometric (Berry) phase in quantum mechanics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Dan Shechtman2011
Cuasicristales
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Bertrand Halperin1941
Físico; condensed matter theory and the quantum Hall effect
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Brout1928
Físico; codescubrió the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daniel Kleppner1932
Físico; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jacob Bekenstein1947
Físico; black hole entropy and thermodynamics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Kirshner2015
Astrónomo of supernova cosmology; Premio Wolf (2015)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Yosef Imry2016
Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Premio Wolf (2016)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Rafi Bistritzer2020
Físico israelí who predicted magic-angle graphene superconductivity; Premio Wolf (2020)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Mordehai Heiblum2025
Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Premio Wolf (2025)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Carl Djerassi1923
Químico who first synthesized an orally active progestin, making the contraceptive pill possible.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Herman Mark1895
Químico regarded as a father of polymer science
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
John Polanyi1929
Químico conocido por reaction dynamics and chemiluminescence; Premio Nobel 1986
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Rudolph Marcus1923
Químico teórico whose Marcus theory explains the rates of electron transfer reactions, from corrosion to photosynthesis, and co-author of the RRKM theory of reaction rates; Premio Nobel de Química…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Rudolph Marcus / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1992
Joshua Jortner1933
Químico físico conocido por ultrafast processes and molecular clusters
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Raphael Levine1938
Químico teórico conocido por molecular reaction dynamics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Alexander Pines1945
Químico físico conocido por solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Richard Lerner1938
Immunochemist que desarrolló catalytic antibodies and combinatorial antibody libraries
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gilbert Stork1921
Químico orgánico renowned for advances in the total synthesis of complex molecules
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Samuel Danishefsky1936
Químico renowned for the total synthesis of complex natural products with anticancer activity.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gabor Somorjai1935
Químico físico, pionero de surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Henri Kagan2026
Químico, pionero de asymmetric catalysis (DIOP, nonlinear effects); Premio Nobel de Química 2026
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 2026 / Wikipedia — Henri B. Kagan
Richard Zare1939
Químico físico conocido por laser chemistry and analytical spectroscopy
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
George Feher1924
Biophysical chemist conocido por ENDOR and the photosynthetic reaction center
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Ada Yonath2009
Estudios de la estructura y función del ribosoma
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Allen Bard1933
Electrochemist, developer of scanning electrochemical microscopy
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Stuart Rice1932
Químico físico conocido por the statistical mechanics of liquids
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Charles Lieber1959
Químico conocido por nanowires and nanoscale materials
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Bergman1942
Organometallic chemist conocido por C–H bond activation and the Bergman cyclization
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Stephen Buchwald1955
Químico orgánico conocido por the Buchwald–Hartwig amination reaction
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Meir Lahav1936
Químico conocido por chirality and crystal engineering
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Leslie Leiserowitz1934
Químico conocido por molecular crystals and crystal growth
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Bonnie Bassler1962
Microbiólogo who elucidated quorum sensing, the chemical communication between bacteria.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Benjamin Cravatt2022
Pionero de activity-based protein profiling in chemical biology; Premio Wolf in Chemistry (2022)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry)
Israel Gelfand1913
Análisis funcional; Gelfand representation of Banach algebras
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Andre Weil1906
Teoría de números and algebraic geometry; the Weil conjectures
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Oscar Zariski1899
Geometría algebraica; the Zariski topology
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mark Krein1907
Análisis funcional; the Krein-Milman theorem
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Erdős1949
Combinatoria and Graph Theory
Fuente: Prolific mathematician with 1500+ papers
Hans Lewy1904
Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Samuel Eilenberg1913
Cofundador de category theory and algebraic topology
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Lax1926
Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro1929
Automorphic forms and representation theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mikhail Gromov2009
Geometer who reshaped modern geometry; Abel Prize (2009), Premio Wolf (1993)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Joseph Keller1923
Applied mathematics; the geometric theory of diffraction
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Elias Stein1931
Harmonic analysis; singular integrals and oscillatory integrals
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Raoul Bott1923
Topología; Bott periodicity theorem
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Arnold1937
Dynamical systems; KAM theory and Arnold diffusion
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Saharon Shelah1945
Teoría de conjuntos and model theory; classification and PCF theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gregori Margulis1946
Lie groups and ergodic theory (Medalla Fields, Abel Prize)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Hillel Furstenberg1935
Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Mostow1923
Mostow rigidity theorem for hyperbolic manifolds
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Sarnak1953
Teoría de números, análisis matemático, and quantum chaos
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Charles Fefferman1949
Harmonic analysis and PDEs (Medalla Fields)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Alexander Beilinson1957
Geometric representation theory; the Beilinson conjectures
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Drinfeld1954
Introdujo quantum groups; geometric Langlands (Medalla Fields)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Eliashberg1946
Symplectic and contact geometry
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Lusztig1946
Representation theory; Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Noga Alon2005
Israeli combinatorialist; Premio Gödel (2005), Knuth Prize (2022)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes
Adi Shamir2002
RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)
Fuente: Turing Award 2002
César Milstein1927
Recibió el 1984 Premio Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Leo Sachs1924
Genetista who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley N. Cohen1935
Genetista who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Solomon Snyder1938
Neurocientífico who identified opiate receptors in the brain, transforming neuropharmacology.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Meir Wilchek1935
Bioquímico que desarrolló avidin-biotin technology, widely used in biological research and diagnostics
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Elizabeth Neufeld1928
Bioquímico who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Seymour Benzer1921
Biólogo molecular who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Judah Folkman1933
Cirujano que fundó the field of angiogenesis research, opening a new approach to cancer therapy; Gairdner Award in biomedicine
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Sela1924
Inmunólogo who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic antigens.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ruth Arnon1933
Inmunólogo who co-developed Copaxone, a leading treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander Levitzki1940
Bioquímico who pioneered signal transduction inhibitors (tyrphostins) as cancer drugs
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Cedar1943
Biólogo molecular who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aharon Razin1935
Bioquímico who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Nahum Sonenberg1946
Bioquímico who elucidated the control of protein synthesis (translation) initiation
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Ravetch1951
Inmunólogo who elucidated the role of antibody Fc receptors in immunity
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
C. Ronald Kahn1944
Endocrinologist who elucidated insulin signaling and its role in diabetes
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist que descubrió leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Adrian Krainer2021
Desarrolló the first drug for spinal muscular atrophy (nusinersen); Premio Wolf in Medicine (2021)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Medicine)
Daniel Drucker1956
Endocrinologist whose GLP-1 research underlies modern diabetes and obesity drugs.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
José-Alain Sahel1955
Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Eric Kandel2000
Showed in the sea snail Aplysia how learning changes synapses and how short- and long-term memories are stored; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2000
Fuente: Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Avram Hershko2004
Descubrimiento de la degradación de proteínas mediada por ubiquitina
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Gary Ruvkun1952
Biólogo molecular who, with Victor Ambros, descubrió microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Premio Nobel de…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024
Josef Tal1982
Founding father of Israeli art music and electronic music; Premio Wolf in Arts (1982)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Frank Gehry1992
Arquitecto of the Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall; Premio Wolf in Arts (1992)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Denys Lasdun1992
Arquitecto británico of the National Theatre, London; Premio Wolf in Arts (1992)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Peter Eisenman2010
Arquitecto of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial; Premio Wolf in Arts (2010)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Phyllis Lambert2016
Arquitecto canadiense que fundó the Canadian Centre for Architecture; Premio Wolf in Arts (2016)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Lawrence Weiner2017
Central figure of conceptual art; Premio Wolf in Arts (2017)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Moshe Safdie2019
Israeli-Canadian architect of Habitat 67 and Marina Bay Sands; Premio Wolf in Arts (2019)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Olga Neuwirth2021
Compositor austríaco; Premio Wolf in Arts (2021)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Elizabeth Diller2022
Arquitecto of New York's High Line and The Shed; Premio Wolf in Arts (2022)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Karl Maramorosch1980
Virólogo of insect-borne plant diseases; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (1980)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Morris Schnitzer1995
Soil chemist of humic substances; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (1995/6)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Ilan Chet1998
Pionero de israelí biological pest control (Hebrew University); Premio Wolf in Agriculture (1998)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Harris Lewin2011
Genomicist of livestock and comparative genomes; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (2011)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Jorge Dubcovsky2013
Wheat geneticist; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (2013)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Gene Robinson2018
Pionero de the sociogenomics of the honey bee; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (2018)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
David Zilberman2019
Agricultural economist; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (2019)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Pamela Ronald2022
Plant geneticist of disease- and flood-resistant rice; Premio Wolf in Agriculture (2022)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)