Prix Wolf (toutes disciplines)
Lauréats juifs du Prix Wolf (toutes disciplines) répertoriés dans l'annuaire ThankJews. Les Juifs représentent environ 35 % de l'ensemble des lauréats — alors qu'ils constituent à peu près 0,2 % de la population mondiale.
120 lauréats répertoriés
Michael Fisher1931
Chemical physicist connu pour statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Leo Kadanoff1937
Physicien; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Victor Weisskopf1908
Physicien; quantum electrodynamics and nuclear physics, réalisateur-general of CERN
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leon Lederman1922
Experimental physicist qui a découvert the muon neutrino and the bottom quark, a réalisé Fermilab and championed science teaching; Prix Nobel de physique 1988
Source : Wikipedia — Leon Lederman
Martin Perl1927
Physicien; a découvert the tau lepton, prix Nobel 1995
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Erwin Hahn1921
Physicien qui a découvert the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Peter Hirsch1925
Metallurgist, pionnier de electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Theodore Maiman1927
Physicien; a construit the first working laser
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum1944
Physicien; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Albert Libchaber1934
Physicien; experimental confirmation of the route to chaos
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Herbert Friedman1916
Pionnier de space-based solar and X-ray astronomy using rocket-borne instruments
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Bruno Rossi1905
Physicien; cosmic-ray physics and founding of X-ray astronomy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Maurice Goldhaber1911
Physicien; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Valentine Telegdi1922
Physicien; parity violation and precision particle experiments
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Benoit Mandelbrot1924
Mathématicien qui a fondé fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Vitaly Ginzburg1916
Physicien; Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity (1950), Prix Nobel de physique 2003
Source : Wikipedia — Vitaly Ginzburg
Yakir Aharonov1932
Physicien; a codécouvert the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Michael Berry1941
Physicien; a découvert the geometric (Berry) phase in quantum mechanics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Dan Shechtman2011
Quasi-cristaux
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Bertrand Halperin1941
Physicien; condensed matter theory and the quantum Hall effect
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Brout1928
Physicien; a codécouvert the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daniel Kleppner1932
Physicien; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jacob Bekenstein1947
Physicien; black hole entropy and thermodynamics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Kirshner2015
Astronome of supernova cosmology; Prix Wolf (2015)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Yosef Imry2016
Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Prix Wolf (2016)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Rafi Bistritzer2020
Physicien israélien who predicted magic-angle graphene superconductivity; Prix Wolf (2020)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Mordehai Heiblum2025
Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Prix Wolf (2025)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Carl Djerassi1923
Chimiste who first synthesized an orally active progestin, making the contraceptive pill possible.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Herman Mark1895
Chimiste regarded as a father of polymer science
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
John Polanyi1929
Chimiste connu pour reaction dynamics and chemiluminescence; prix Nobel 1986
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Rudolph Marcus1923
Chimiste théoricien whose Marcus theory explains the rates of electron transfer reactions, from corrosion to photosynthesis, and co-author of the RRKM theory of reaction rates; Prix Nobel de chimie…
Source : Wikipedia — Rudolph Marcus / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1992
Joshua Jortner1933
Chimiste physicien connu pour ultrafast processes and molecular clusters
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Raphael Levine1938
Chimiste théoricien connu pour molecular reaction dynamics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Alexander Pines1945
Chimiste physicien connu pour solid-state NMR spectroscopy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Richard Lerner1938
Immunochemist qui a développé catalytic antibodies and combinatorial antibody libraries
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gilbert Stork1921
Chimiste organicien renowned for advances in the total synthesis of complex molecules
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Samuel Danishefsky1936
Chimiste renowned for the total synthesis of complex natural products with anticancer activity.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gabor Somorjai1935
Chimiste physicien, pionnier de surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Henri Kagan2026
Chimiste, pionnier de asymmetric catalysis (DIOP, nonlinear effects); Prix Nobel de chimie 2026
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 2026 / Wikipedia — Henri B. Kagan
Richard Zare1939
Chimiste physicien connu pour laser chemistry and analytical spectroscopy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
George Feher1924
Biophysical chemist connu pour ENDOR and the photosynthetic reaction center
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Ada Yonath2009
Travaux sur la structure et la fonction du ribosome
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Allen Bard1933
Electrochemist, developer of scanning electrochemical microscopy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Stuart Rice1932
Chimiste physicien connu pour the statistical mechanics of liquids
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Charles Lieber1959
Chimiste connu pour nanowires and nanoscale materials
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Robert Bergman1942
Organometallic chemist connu pour C–H bond activation and the Bergman cyclization
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Stephen Buchwald1955
Chimiste organicien connu pour the Buchwald–Hartwig amination reaction
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Meir Lahav1936
Chimiste connu pour chirality and crystal engineering
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Leslie Leiserowitz1934
Chimiste connu pour molecular crystals and crystal growth
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Bonnie Bassler1962
Microbiologiste who elucidated quorum sensing, the chemical communication between bacteria.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Benjamin Cravatt2022
Pionnier de activity-based protein profiling in chemical biology; Prix Wolf in Chemistry (2022)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry)
Israel Gelfand1913
Analyse fonctionnelle; Gelfand representation of Banach algebras
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Andre Weil1906
Théorie des nombres and algebraic geometry; the Weil conjectures
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Oscar Zariski1899
Géométrie algébrique; the Zariski topology
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mark Krein1907
Analyse fonctionnelle; the Krein-Milman theorem
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Paul Erdős1949
Combinatoire and Graph Theory
Source : Prolific mathematician with 1500+ papers
Hans Lewy1904
Partial differential equations; the Lewy example
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Samuel Eilenberg1913
Cofondateur de category theory and algebraic topology
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Lax1926
Partial differential equations; Lax pairs and Lax-Milgram (Abel Prize)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro1929
Automorphic forms and representation theory
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Mikhail Gromov2009
Geometer who reshaped modern geometry; Abel Prize (2009), Prix Wolf (1993)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Joseph Keller1923
Applied mathematics; the geometric theory of diffraction
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Elias Stein1931
Harmonic analysis; singular integrals and oscillatory integrals
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Raoul Bott1923
Topologie; Bott periodicity theorem
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Arnold1937
Dynamical systems; KAM theory and Arnold diffusion
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Saharon Shelah1945
Théorie des ensembles and model theory; classification and PCF theory
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Gregori Margulis1946
Lie groups and ergodic theory (Médaille Fields, Abel Prize)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Hillel Furstenberg1935
Ergodic theory and its links to number theory (Abel Prize)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Mostow1923
Mostow rigidity theorem for hyperbolic manifolds
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Peter Sarnak1953
Théorie des nombres, analyse mathématique, and quantum chaos
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Charles Fefferman1949
Harmonic analysis and PDEs (Médaille Fields)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Alexander Beilinson1957
Geometric representation theory; the Beilinson conjectures
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Vladimir Drinfeld1954
A introduit quantum groups; geometric Langlands (Médaille Fields)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Eliashberg1946
Symplectic and contact geometry
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
George Lusztig1946
Representation theory; Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Noga Alon2005
Israeli combinatorialist; Prix Gödel (2005), Knuth Prize (2022)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Knuth & Gödel Prizes
Adi Shamir2002
RSA Cryptography (Co-inventor)
Source : Turing Award 2002
César Milstein1927
A reçu le 1984 prix Nobel for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Leo Sachs1924
Généticien who elucidated blood-cell differentiation and pioneered prenatal diagnosis via amniocentesis.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley N. Cohen1935
Généticien who co-invented recombinant DNA technology using plasmids, founding genetic engineering
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Solomon Snyder1938
Neuroscientifique who identified opiate receptors in the brain, transforming neuropharmacology.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Meir Wilchek1935
Biochimiste qui a développé avidin-biotin technology, widely used in biological research and diagnostics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Elizabeth Neufeld1928
Biochimiste who elucidated the cellular basis of lysosomal storage diseases.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Seymour Benzer1921
Biologiste moléculaire who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Judah Folkman1933
Chirurgien qui a fondé the field of angiogenesis research, opening a new approach to cancer therapy; Gairdner Award in biomedicine
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Sela1924
Immunologiste who co-developed Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and pioneered synthetic antigens.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ruth Arnon1933
Immunologiste who co-developed Copaxone, a leading treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander Levitzki1940
Biochimiste who pioneered signal transduction inhibitors (tyrphostins) as cancer drugs
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Robert Weinberg1942
Cancer biologist who isolated the first human oncogene and first tumor-suppressor gene.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Howard Cedar1943
Biologiste moléculaire who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aharon Razin1935
Biochimiste who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Nahum Sonenberg1946
Biochimiste who elucidated the control of protein synthesis (translation) initiation
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Ravetch1951
Immunologiste who elucidated the role of antibody Fc receptors in immunity
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
C. Ronald Kahn1944
Endocrinologist who elucidated insulin signaling and its role in diabetes
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey Friedman1954
Molecular geneticist qui a découvert leptin, the hormone that regulates appetite and body weight.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Adrian Krainer2021
A développé the first drug for spinal muscular atrophy (nusinersen); Prix Wolf in Medicine (2021)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Medicine)
Daniel Drucker1956
Endocrinologist whose GLP-1 research underlies modern diabetes and obesity drugs.
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
José-Alain Sahel1955
Ophthalmologist advancing treatments for blindness, including optogenetic vision restoration
Source : 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; Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine 2000
Source : Wikipedia — Eric Kandel / NobelPrize.org Medicine 2000
Avram Hershko2004
Découverte de la dégradation des protéines par l'ubiquitine
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
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
Josef Tal1982
Founding father of Israeli art music and electronic music; Prix Wolf in Arts (1982)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Frank Gehry1992
Architecte of the Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall; Prix Wolf in Arts (1992)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Denys Lasdun1992
Architecte britannique of the National Theatre, London; Prix Wolf in Arts (1992)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Peter Eisenman2010
Architecte of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial; Prix Wolf in Arts (2010)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Phyllis Lambert2016
Architecte canadien qui a fondé the Canadian Centre for Architecture; Prix Wolf in Arts (2016)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Lawrence Weiner2017
Central figure of conceptual art; Prix Wolf in Arts (2017)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Moshe Safdie2019
Israeli-Canadian architect of Habitat 67 and Marina Bay Sands; Prix Wolf in Arts (2019)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Olga Neuwirth2021
Compositeur autrichien; Prix Wolf in Arts (2021)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Elizabeth Diller2022
Architecte of New York's High Line and The Shed; Prix Wolf in Arts (2022)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Arts)
Karl Maramorosch1980
Virologue of insect-borne plant diseases; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (1980)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Morris Schnitzer1995
Soil chemist of humic substances; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (1995/6)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Ilan Chet1998
Pionnier de israélien biological pest control (Hebrew University); Prix Wolf in Agriculture (1998)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Harris Lewin2011
Genomicist of livestock and comparative genomes; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (2011)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Jorge Dubcovsky2013
Wheat geneticist; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (2013)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Gene Robinson2018
Pionnier de the sociogenomics of the honey bee; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (2018)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
David Zilberman2019
Agricultural economist; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (2019)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)
Pamela Ronald2022
Plant geneticist of disease- and flood-resistant rice; Prix Wolf in Agriculture (2022)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize (Agriculture)