פרס הורוויץ (ביולוגיה)
זוכים יהודים בפרס הורוויץ (ביולוגיה) המתועדים במדריך ThankJews. היהודים הם כ-40% מכלל הזוכים — בעוד שהם מהווים כ-0.2% מאוכלוסיית העולם.
47 זוכים מתועדים
Marshall Nirenberg1968
Genetic Code
מקור: Nobel Prize Medicine 1968
Salvador Luria1912
Awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the replication and genetics of viruses (bacteriophages).
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stephen Kuffler1913
חוקר מוח widely regarded as a founder of modern neuroscience for his work on neural signaling.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Harry Eagle1905
רופא שפיתח את Eagle's medium, a standard nutrient for growing cultured cells.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Theodore Puck1916
גנטיקאי שפיתח את methods to grow and clone single mammalian cells, founding somatic cell genetics.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Boris Ephrussi1901
גנטיקאי who pioneered the study of cytoplasmic (non-chromosomal) inheritance and somatic cell genetics.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Seymour Benzer1921
ביולוג מולקולרי who mapped the fine structure of the gene and pioneered the genetics of behavior using fruit flies.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Charles Yanofsky1925
גנטיקאי who demonstrated the colinearity of a gene and the protein it encodes.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Heidelberger1888
Regarded as the father of modern immunochemistry for quantifying the antibody-antigen reaction.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Elvin Kabat1914
Immunochemist who was a founder of quantitative immunochemistry and antibody structure.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Walter Gilbert1980
DNA Sequencing
מקור: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1980
César Milstein1927
Awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for developing the technique to produce monoclonal antibodies.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Aaron Klug1982
Crystallographic Electron Microscopy
מקור: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1982
Stanley Cohen1986
Growth Factors
מקור: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Viktor Hamburger1900
Embryologist whose work on nerve development led to the discovery of nerve growth factor.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Rita Levi-Montalcini1986
Nerve Growth Factor
מקור: Nobel Prize Medicine 1986
Michael Brown
פרטי התרומה טרם תועדו.
Joseph Goldstein1940
Awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for discovering the LDL receptor and regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Donald Brown1931
Developmental biologist who pioneered the isolation and study of individual genes
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Mark Ptashne1940
ביולוג מולקולרי who first isolated a gene repressor, revealing how genes are switched on and off.
מקור: 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.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stephen Harrison1941
Structural biologist who determined the atomic structures of viruses
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Michael Rossmann1930
Structural biologist who solved the first atomic structure of a virus and identified the Rossmann fold.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stanley Prusiner1997
Discovery of prions, a new biological principle of infection
מקור: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1997
Arnold Levine1939
ביולוג מולקולרי שגילה את the p53 tumor-suppressor protein, central to cancer biology.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Bert Vogelstein1949
Cancer geneticist who mapped the genetic mutations driving colorectal cancer progression.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Pierre Chambon1931
ביולוג מולקולרי שגילה את split genes and pioneered the study of nuclear hormone receptors.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
H. Robert Horvitz1947
Awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize for discoveries on the genetic regulation of programmed cell death (apoptosis).
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Avram Hershko2004
Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
מקור: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004
Alexander Varshavsky1946
ביולוג שגילה את the ubiquitin system's N-end rule governing protein lifespan.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
James Rothman1950
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering the machinery regulating vesicle traffic in cells.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Randy Schekman1948
Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for discovering genes controlling the cell's vesicle transport system.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ada Yonath2009
Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
מקור: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2009
Roger Kornberg2006
Studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
מקור: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Chemistry 2006
Rosalind Franklin1952
DNA Structure Discovery (Photo 51)
מקור: X-ray crystallography of DNA
Arthur Horwich1951
ביולוג שגילה את chaperonins, the cellular machines that fold proteins.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gary Ruvkun1952
Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Michael Rosbash1944
Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for discovering molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Richard Losick1943
ביולוג מולקולרי הידוע בזכות work on gene regulation and bacterial development
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Lucy Shapiro1940
Developmental biologist who revealed how bacterial cells control their cycle in space and time.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
S. Lawrence Zipursky1955
Neurobiologist, research on neural wiring and cell-recognition molecules
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Howard Cedar1943
ביולוג מולקולרי who elucidated the role of DNA methylation in gene regulation
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Gary Felsenfeld1929
ביופיזיקאי הידוע בזכות research on chromatin and gene regulation
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aharon Razin1935
ביוכימאי who helped establish the role of DNA methylation in gene control
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jeffrey I. Gordon1947
Regarded as a founder of the study of the human gut microbiome
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Ronald M. Evans1949
ביולוג מולקולרי שגילה את the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors governing gene expression.
מקור: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Drew Weissman2023
Nucleoside base modifications enabling effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
מקור: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 2023