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Year | Nobel Laureate | Born in |
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2024 | Ruvkun, Gary "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation" | USA |
2023 | Weissman, Drew "for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" | USA |
2021 | Julius, David "for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch" | USA |
2020 | Alter, Harvey J. "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus" | USA |
2017 | Rosbash, Michael "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm" | USA |
2013 | Rothman, James E. "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells" | USA |
2013 | Schekman, Randy W. "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells" | USA |
2011 | Beutler, Bruce A. "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" | USA |
2011 | Steinman, Ralph M. "for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" | Canada |
2006 | Fire, Andrew Z. "for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA" | USA |
2004 | Axel, Richard "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system" | USA |
2002 | Horvitz, H. Robert "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" | USA |
2002 | Brenner, Sydney "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death" | South Africa |
2000 | Kandel, Eric R. "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system" | Austria |
2000 | Greengard, Paul "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system" | USA |
1998 | Furchgott, Robert F. "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system" | USA |
1997 | Prusiner, Stanley B. "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection" | USA |
1994 | Gilman, Alfred G. "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" | USA |
1994 | Rodbell, Martin "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" | USA |
1989 | Varmus, Harold E. "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" | USA |
1988 | Elion, Gertrude B. "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" | USA |
1986 | Levi-Montalcini, Rita "for their discoveries of growth factors" | Italy |
1986 | Cohen, Stanley "for their discoveries of growth factors" | USA |
1985 | Goldstein, Joseph L. "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" | USA |
1985 | Brown, Michael S. "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" | USA |
1984 | Milstein, Cesar "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" | Argentina |
1980 | Benacerraf, Baruj "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" | Venezuela |
1978 | Nathans, Daniel "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" | USA |
1977 | Yalow, Rosalyn "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" | USA |
1976 | Blumberg, Baruch S. "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases" | USA |
1975 | Baltimore, David "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" | USA |
1975 | Temin, Howard M. "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" | USA |
1973 | von Frisch, Karl "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns" | Austria |
1972 | Edelman, Gerald M. "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" | USA |
1970 | Axelrod, Julius "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" | USA |
1970 | Katz, Bernard "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" | Germany |
1969 | Luria, Salvador E. "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" | Italy |
1968 | Nirenberg, Marshall W. "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis" | USA |
1967 | Wald, George "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" | USA |
1965 | Lwoff, Andre "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" | France |
1965 | Jacob, Francois "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" | France |
1964 | Bloch, Konrad "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism" | Germany |
1959 | Kornberg, Arthur "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" | USA |
1958 | Lederberg, Joshua "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria" | USA |
1953 | Krebs, Hans Adolf "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle" | Germany |
1953 | Lipmann, Fritz Albert "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism" | Germany |
1952 | Waksman, Selman A. "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis" | Ukraine |
1950 | Reichstein, Tadeus "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects" | Poland |
1947 | Cori, Gerty Theresa, Radnitz "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" | Czech Republic |
1946 | Muller, Hermann Joseph "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation" | USA |
1945 | Chain, Ernst Boris "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" | Germany |
1944 | Erlanger, Joseph "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers" | USA |
1936 | Loewi, Otto "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses" | Germany |
1930 | Landsteiner, Karl "for his discovery of human blood groups" | Austria |
1922 | Meyerhof, Otto Fritz "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle" | Germany |
1914 | Barany, Robert "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus" | Austria |
1908 | Ehrlich, Paul "for their work on immunity" | Germany |
1908 | Mechnikov, Ilya Ilyich "for their work on immunity" | Ukraine |
Total number of Jewish Laureates: 58 out of a total of 229.