Prix Nobel de médecine
Lauréats juifs du Prix Nobel de médecine répertoriés dans l'annuaire ThankJews. Les Juifs représentent environ 26 % de l'ensemble des lauréats — alors qu'ils constituent à peu près 0,2 % de la population mondiale.
62 lauréats répertoriés
Paul Ehrlich1908
Chimiothérapie
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1908
Elie Metchnikoff1908
A découvert phagocytosis and cellular immunity; Nobel 1908 (NOT the inventor of yogurt; he popularized the probiotic/lactic-acid longevity theory)
Source : Nobelprize.org; Wikipedia (mother of Jewish descent)
Robert Bárány1876
Otologist awarded the 1914 prix Nobel in Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular (balance) apparatus of the inner ear.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Otto Meyerhof1884
A reçu le 1922 prix Nobel for discovering the relationship between oxygen consumption and lactic acid metabolism in muscle.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Willem Einthoven1903
Inventeur de l'électrocardiogramme, prix Nobel de médecine 1924
Source : https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1924/einthoven/biographical/
Karl Landsteiner1930
Découverte des groupes sanguins humains
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1930
Otto Warburg1931
Discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1931
Otto Loewi1936
Pharmacologue who proved the chemical transmission of nerve impulses and identified the vagus substance as acetylcholine; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1936
Source : Wikipedia — Otto Loewi
Joseph Erlanger1874
Physiologiste who, with Herbert Gasser, a construit a cathode-ray oscillograph to record nerve impulses and showed that nerve fibres conduct at speeds set by their diameter; Prix Nobel de physiologie…
Source : Wikipedia — Joseph Erlanger
Ernst Boris Chain1906
Biochimiste who, with Howard Florey at Oxford, isolated penicillin and demonstrated its curative action; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1945
Source : Wikipedia — Ernst Chain
Hermann Muller1890
Showed in 1927 that X-rays produce gene mutations, founding radiation genetics; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1946
Source : Wikipedia — Hermann Muller
Gerty Cori1896
Biochimiste awarded the 1947 prix Nobel for discovering the Cori cycle of glycogen metabolism; first woman to win the medicine Nobel.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Tadeus Reichstein1897
A reçu le 1950 prix Nobel for research on the hormones of the adrenal cortex, including cortisone.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Selman Waksman1943
Streptomycine (premier antibiotique contre la tuberculose), a découvert in his Rutgers laboratory; coined the term antibiotics; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1952
Source : Wikipedia — Selman Waksman
Hans Krebs1953
Discovery of the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle) in cellular metabolism
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1953
Fritz Lipmann1899
A découvert coenzyme A and introduced the concept of energy-rich phosphate bonds; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1953
Source : Wikipedia — Fritz Lipmann
Joshua Lederberg1958
Showed that bacteria mate and exchange genes (genetic recombination) and co-discovered transduction; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1958
Source : Wikipedia — Joshua Lederberg
Arthur Kornberg1959
DNA Synthesis
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1959
Konrad Bloch1912
Biochimiste awarded the 1964 prix Nobel for elucidating the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
François Jacob1920
A reçu le 1965 prix Nobel for discovering the operon model of gene regulation.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
André Lwoff1902
A reçu le 1965 prix Nobel for work on lysogeny and the genetic control of viruses.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
George Wald1906
A reçu le 1967 prix Nobel for discovering the biochemical processes of vision in the retina.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Salvador Luria1912
Showed with Max Delbrück that bacteria mutate spontaneously (fluctuation test); a cofondé the phage group; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1969 for discoveries on the replication and genetics…
Source : Wikipedia — Salvador Luria
Julius Axelrod1970
Showed that nerve endings take back the noradrenaline they release (reuptake) and discovered the enzyme COMT; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1970
Source : Wikipedia — Julius Axelrod / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1970
Bernard Katz1970
Showed that acetylcholine is released at the nerve-muscle junction in packets of fixed size (quanta); Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1970
Source : Wikipedia — Bernard Katz / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1970
Gerald Edelman1929
A reçu le 1972 prix Nobel for determining the chemical structure of antibodies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Karl von Frisch1886
A reçu le 1973 prix Nobel in Medicine for decoding the 'dance language' of honeybees
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
David Baltimore1975
A découvert reverse transcriptase (1970), the enzyme retroviruses such as HIV use to copy RNA into DNA; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1975; president of Caltech 1997–2006
Source : Wikipedia — David Baltimore / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1975
Howard Temin1975
Proposed the DNA provirus hypothesis (1964) and co-discovered reverse transcriptase (1970), showing that genetic information can flow from RNA to DNA; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1975
Source : Wikipedia — Howard Martin Temin / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1975
Baruch Blumberg1976
Virus et vaccin de l'hépatite B
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1976
Rosalyn Yalow1977
A développé radioimmunoassay with Solomon Berson, a way of measuring minute amounts of hormones in the blood, which they chose not to patent; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1977
Source : Wikipedia — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1977
Daniel Nathans1928
Used restriction enzymes to cut the DNA of the tumour virus SV40 into defined fragments and map it, founding a basic method of molecular biology; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1978
Source : Wikipedia — Daniel Nathans / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1978
Baruj Benacerraf1920
A découvert the immune response (Ir) genes of the major histocompatibility complex that control the strength of immune reactions; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1980; president of the…
Source : Wikipedia — Baruj Benacerraf / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1980
John Vane1927
A reçu le 1982 prix Nobel for discovering how aspirin works and the biology of prostaglandins.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
César Milstein1927
A reçu le 1984 prix Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael S. Brown1941
A reçu le 1985 prix Nobel 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; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1985
Source : Wikipedia — Joseph L. Goldstein / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1985
Stanley Cohen1986
Facteurs de croissance
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Rita Levi-Montalcini1986
Discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF), first isolated in 1952; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1986; senator for life of Italy from 2001
Source : Wikipedia — Rita Levi-Montalcini / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1986
Gertrude Elion1988
A été pionnier de rational drug design with George Hitchings, producing 6-mercaptopurine for childhood leukaemia, azathioprine for transplants, allopurinol, acyclovir and other medicines; Prix Nobel…
Source : Wikipedia — Gertrude B. Elion / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1988
Harold Varmus1989
With Michael Bishop showed that retroviral oncogenes derive from normal cellular genes (proto-oncogenes), Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1989; réalisateur of the NIH 1993–1999 and of the…
Source : Wikipedia — Harold E. Varmus / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1989
Edmond Fischer1920
A reçu le 1992 prix Nobel for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alfred Gilman1941
A reçu le 1994 prix Nobel for the discovery of G-proteins and their role in cellular signal transduction.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Martin Rodbell1925
A reçu le 1994 prix Nobel for the discovery of G-proteins in cellular signal transduction.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
A découvert prions, infectious agents made of misfolded protein alone, the cause of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and scrapie; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 1997
Source : Wikipedia — Stanley Prusiner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 1997
Robert Furchgott1916
A reçu le 1998 prix Nobel for discovering nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Paul Greengard1925
Showed how dopamine and other transmitters act on nerve cells through protein phosphorylation, the basis of slow synaptic transmission; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2000
Source : Wikipedia — Paul Greengard / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Eric Kandel2000
Showed in the sea snail Aplysia how learning changes synapses and how short- and long-term memories are stored; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2000
Source : Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Sydney Brenner2002
Helped establish messenger RNA and the triplet genetic code, and made the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans a model for the genetics of development; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2002
Source : Wikipedia — Sydney Brenner / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2002
H. Robert Horvitz1947
A reçu le 2002 prix Nobel for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Richard Axel1946
A reçu le 2004 prix Nobel for discovering odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Andrew Fire2006
Lauréat du prix Nobel in medicine (2006) for the discovery of RNA interference (gene silencing)
Source : Nobel Prize Medicine 2006
Bruce Beutler1957
Found that Toll-like receptor 4 is the sensor of bacterial lipopolysaccharide that switches on innate immunity; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2011
Source : Wikipedia — Bruce Beutler / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2011
Ralph Steinman1943
Immunologiste qui a découvert the dendritic cell in 1973 and showed how it switches on adaptive immunity; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2011
Source : Wikipedia — Ralph Steinman
James Rothman1950
Biochimiste who uncovered the protein machinery of the SNAREs that lets vesicles dock and fuse with their targets inside cells; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 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; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2013
Source : Wikipedia — Randy Schekman
Michael Rosbash1944
Généticien who with Jeffrey Hall isolated the period gene and showed how its protein drives the feedback loop of the circadian clock; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2017
Source : Wikipedia — Michael Rosbash
Harvey Alter1935
A reçu le 2020 prix Nobel for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
David Julius1955
A reçu le 2021 prix Nobel in Medicine for discovering receptors for temperature and touch
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Drew Weissman2023
Médecin and immunologist who with Katalin Karikó found the nucleoside base modifications that made mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 possible; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2023
Source : Wikipedia — Drew Weissman
Gary Ruvkun1952
Biologiste moléculaire who, with Victor Ambros, a découvert microRNA and its role in gene regulation, and showed in 2000 that the second microRNA, let-7, is conserved across animals; Prix Nobel de…
Source : Wikipedia — Gary Ruvkun / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2024