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	Nobel Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The peace prize ceremony was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1905 until 1946, later at the Aula of the University of Oslo, and since 1990 at the Oslo City Hall.
		For example, in 2002, a Prize was awarded to Koichi Tanaka and John Fenn for the development of mass spectrometry in protein chemistry, failing to recognise the achievements of Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.
		Similar criticism was levied towards the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, specifically the recognition of Roy Glauber and not George Sudarshan for the award.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Nobel_Prize (2848 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Jewish
		The advent of the Jewish Enlightenment (see Haskalah) of the 1700s and the subsequent emancipation of the Jewish populations of Europe and America in the 1800s, changed the situation, allowing Jews to increasingly participate in, and become part of, secular society.
		The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.
		The 2,000 year dispersion of the Jewish diaspora beginning under the Roman Empire, as Jews were spread throughout the Roman world and, driven from land to land, and settled wherever they could live freely enough to practice their religion.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Jewish (6279 words)

	Nobel Prize - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		Image:Nobel medal dsc06171.jpg Image:Nobel prize medal.jpg The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
		Although Nobel's will established the prizes, because his plan was incomplete and due to various other hurdles, it took five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes awarded in 1901.
		Nobel's will speaks of prizes for those inventions or discoveries of greatest practical benefit to mankind, possibly having in mind more practical than theoretical works.The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Mathematics was not considered a practical science from which humanity could benefit (a key purpose for the Nobel Foundation).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Nobel_Prize (2026 words)

	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1901-2000
		The Nobel Prize awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet is commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
		The fact that it is the international scientific community that nominates the Prize candidates, and the principle that the invitations to nominate are rotated among different academies and individuals, contributes to confidence in the selection procedure and to the prestige of the Nobel Prizes.
		Butenandt received the 1939 prize in Chemistry for his work on sex hormones, de Hevesy was awarded the 1943 Chemistry prize for introducing isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes, a technique of great value in biomedical research, while Sanger was awarded two Chemistry prizes for discoveries of great importance in modern biotechnology.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/lindsten-ringertz-rev (4841 words)

	One-of-five Nobel Prize Laureates are Jewish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		In December 1902, the first Nobel Prize was awarded in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays.
		Alfred Nobel, 1833-1996, a Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, bequeathed a $9 million endowment to fund prizes of $40,000 in 1901.
		From the start "The Prize" (as it was sensationalized in Irving Wallace's 1960 novel) became one of the most sought-after awards in the world, and eventually the yardstick against which other prizes and recognition were to be measured.
	www.ishitech.co.il /1204ar3.htm (405 words)

	Jewish Science and Technology Books: Personalities
		Awarded Nobel Prize in 1945 jointly with Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Walter Florey in 1945 for research into penicillin and developing means for its extraction and purification.
		Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953, jointly with Fritz Albert Lipmann, for discovery of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (a.k.a.
		The EMET Prizes are awarded every year for academic achievements which constitute a unique contribution to society to winners in five fields: exact sciences, life sciences, social sciences, humanities and Judaism, and culture and art.
	www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com /personalities.htm (4954 words)

	Gandhi and Nobel Peace Prize
		Instead of being restricted to individuals as Nobel intended, "institutions were added in order to appease some of the Swedish opponents of the prize", and, again, deciding that his wishes were impractical, it was determined that the Prize would not be restricted to works undertaken in the previous year.
		The purpose of the Nobel Institute, as spelled out in its statutes, "is to follow developments in the international field, especially as regards the peaceful solution of conflicts, in order to tender advice to the Committee regarding the award." The director of the Institute is also secretary of the Nobel Committee.
		The 1945 Prize, however, was awarded to United States ex-Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, a prominent part-taker in the creation of the United Nations, and the previously reserved 1944 Prize was given to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
	www.mkgandhi.org /nobel/nobelpeaceprize.htm (6921 words)

	List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		"Jewishness" has the meanings both of "adherence to the religion of Judaism" and "membership in the ethnic group 'Jews.'" People of both groups are listed here.
		Poc Chernine, founder of Pugwash Conferences Prize in 1995
		Jewish Nobel Prize Winners (broader list from Jinfo.org)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_Prize_winners (2083 words)

	CNN.com
		The three-day peace symposium, which drew 28 Nobel Peace Prize winners to discuss global conflict in the 21st century, was given extra focus with increased violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
		Suu Kyi, who won the peace prize in 1991, has been detained at her Yangon lakeside home in Myanmar, formerly Burma, since September 2000 after she defied official restrictions by attempting to travel outside the capital for a political meeting.
		The prizes in literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economics are presented the same day in Stockholm, Sweden, where more than 160 laureates were gathering for similar centennial celebrations.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/nobel.100/peace.annan.arrival.story.html (514 words)

	Middle-East-Info.org - Jewish Hall of Fame
		18% of Nobel Prizes have gone to Jewish laureates - Nobel e - Museum: "The Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace." - Jews Comprise Only 0.2 to 0.3% of the World's Population
		Out of more than 720 Nobel Prizes awarded since 1901, more than 130, or about 18 percent, have gone to Jewish laureates.
		Jewsrock.org is devoted to illuminating the intersection of rock and roll and Jewish culture.
	www.middle-east-info.org /gateway/jewishhalloffame/index.htm (730 words)

	Ask Jewish America Archives 1996. 1997 - Volume One
		Jewish Education In The U.S. The Sabbath Prayers
		Jewish people from the tribe of Levy were assigned the responsibility and privilege of singing and playing instruments during the service.
		As with the second type of Jewish music, it may also serve to give people a pick-me-up and provide quality in their life and Jewish behavior, through happiness.
	www.jewishamerica.com /ja/content/askjewish/askus1.cfm (2288 words)

	Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature
		The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
		The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
		The prize money for 1914 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
	almaz.com /nobel/literature/literature.html (2120 words)

	Why be Jewish? - Jewish Media Resources
		While awareness of Jewish contributions to civilization should be a source of pride, to the extent that those ideas are today generally shared they provide no reason for our continued existence.
		The traditional belief that the Jewish people have been chosen by G-d to reveal the potential for holiness in life is meaningless for them.
		Every intermarriage represents the decision by a born Jew to raise his or her children with a partner who has no reason to be concerned with the perpetuation of the Jewish people.
	www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/528 (866 words)

	Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives
		Shema Arizona: The Arizona Jewish Historical Society Oral History Project Sixty-three oral histories conducted by the Arizona Jewish Historical Society provide a valuable and unique resource for understanding how American Jews in the early 20th century pulled up roots, continued a tradition of migration, and became western Jews.
		American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) "to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history."
		Jewish Resource Links (Geocities) This is a large list linking to general Jewish resources, Holocaust information sites, resources from universities, publications, Hebrew/Yiddish Information, and genealogy.
	parentseyes.arizona.edu /bloom/websites.htm (727 words)

	Nobel Prize Winners - Famous Jews and Jewish People
		[530] Paul Ehrlich -- Nobel prize for descovering a treatment for syphilis.
		[9] Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
		[13] Nelly Sachs -- Poet, winner of the Nobel prize in Literature
	famous.heebz.com /nobel1.html (858 words)

	Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry
		Son of the Hungarian Jewish physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi.
		Nearly everything in the book is consistent with an upper middle class Hungarian Jewish background, with the exception of his attendance at the Gymnasium of the Piarist Fathers, a Roman Catholic teaching order.
		In interviews, however, he has maintained that his emigration from Nazi Germany was the result of his wife (née Luise Oettinger) being Jewish, not of his being Jewish.
	www.jinfo.org /Nobels_Chemistry.html (545 words)

	Judaism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		The claim that Jewish descent is through the mother, for example, is belied by the Torah, in which descent is through the father.
		By 1850 it had become the dominant Jewish religion in Germany, and old, ghetto Judaism was in danger of dying out.” (D. p.
		He places equal value on all periods of Jewish history and and on all forms of Jewish creativity, rather than focusing primarily on rabbinic texts.
	www.humanisticjews.org /timeline.htm (2482 words)

	Planck's Constant: Muslim Inventions - Nobel Prizes
		Albert Einstein in a circle of other Nobel Prize Winners in 1928 (from the left Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert Andrews Millikan and Max von Laue)
		Sabranet lists the Noble Prizes given to Muslims and Jews.
		This article can be searched by certain, chemistry, culture, current affairs, economics, images, inventions, islam, jewish nobel winners, jews, literature, media, medicine, muslim, news, noble prizes, patents, peace, physics, politics, society, world peace
	plancksconstant.org /blog1/2006/03/muslim_inventions_nobel_prizes.html (1098 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Yet he believes Jews shouldn’t be isolated and his consulting relationship with the Russian government has rubbed some Jewish activists the wrong way, causing them to accuse him of a conflict of interest.
		Although he is only in the beginning stages of raising money for the project, already he has convinced six Jewish Nobel Prize winners in fields like economics, medicine, physics and chemistry to come aboard as honorary members.
		Noting that while many Russian Jewish youngsters have received yeshiva educations in the years since their arrivals in New York, very few of their parents have.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8311 (1807 words)

	Yourish.com » And the Nobel Prize goes to—another Jew
		Not only did Americans sweep the Nobel science prizes, but one of the prizes went to a Jew who is deeply devoted to Israel, teaches in Israel part of the year, and has an Israeli wife.
		I believe Kornberg’s father won a Nobel for finding DNA replicase.This is the second father and son prize winners.Bragg and Bragg were the first.
		Arthur Kornberg not only won a Nobel Prize for his work in Molecular Biology but he also was a pioneer in biotechnology.
	www.yourish.com /2006/10/05/2097 (962 words)

	FToI: Jewish Nobel winners
		The Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace.
		In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.
		Maybe the high number of prize winners is justified by the high percentage of scientists in those fields.
	freethoughts.org /archives/000237.php (4622 words)

	The Jewish Outreach Institute
		For Jewish and intermarried families who are less engaged in their local Jewish communities, this media portrayal may be the only images they see of the Jewish State, which may leave them feeling ambiguous at best.
		Not mentioned in the article, but hopefully covered in the book, is the fact that two Israeli scientists (pictured) shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on cell proteins that led to a new class of cancer-fighting drugs.
		Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko join a shockingly long list of Jewish Nobel Prize winners: more than 20% of all Nobel Prizes have been awarded to Jews, who represent only one quarter of one percent (.0025%) of the world’s population.
	www.joi.org /blog/index.php?p=40 (293 words)

	Commentary: Faulty Jewish-Muslim comparison
		It remains to be proved the Jewish Nobels stem from being Jewish and the small num ber of Muslim laureates from being followers of Islam.
		Many of the Jewish Nobels listed predate the creation of the state of Israel.
		The comparison springs a leak with the tiny number of Asian winners among a total of 780 laureates in all fields.
	wpherald.com /articles/1805/1/Commentary-Faulty-Jewish-Muslim-comparison/Comparing-Nobel-winners.html (416 words)

	Pillage Idiot: Jewish baseball roundup
		The article is headlined, "2006 wasn’t bad for Jewish players." Yes, and 1912 wasn't bad for the Titanic.
		Seems rather slim pickins to me. You're certainly never going to get a list like Jewish Nobel Prize winners.
		"Great Jewish baseball players" would be the title of one of those really thin books.
	pillageidiot.blogspot.com /2006/10/jewish-baseball-roundup.html (179 words)

	Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
		Jewish Recipients of the US National Medal of Science
		This enumeration constitutes an update and an expansion of the information on Jewish Nobel Prize winners contained in the 1997 CD ROM edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica (EJ97), from which 117 of the names listed here were obtained.
		Approximately 15% of those listed are, or were, of half-Jewish descent.
	www.jinfo.org /Nobel_Prizes.html (233 words)

	Jewish and Arab Islam Nobel Prize Winners
		He resigned in 1994 to protest the awarding of a Nobel "Peace Prize" to Yasser Arafat, whom he correctly labeled a "terrorist."
		After reviewing this list, can you supply a reason for the large discrepancy between the Arab/Islamic population's contribution to the world body and that of the Jew?
		There are 165 Jews listed as opposed to 6 from the Arab side.
	www.jewishmag.com /99mag/nobel/nobel.htm (138 words)

	Jewish Nobel Prize laureates - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		For a listing, mark options and press OK Nobel Prize Subject
		No This list includes only Nobel laureates who are Jewish by the strict definition of Halacha (interpretation of the laws of the Hebrew Scriptures) that requires being born to a Jewish mother or formal conversion to Judaism.
		Definition of being Jewish is similar to nationality and is independent of personal beliefs.
	www.science.co.il /Nobel.asp (119 words)

	Nobel Prize Winners for Each of the Eight Nights of Chanukah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-06-20)
		Nobel Prize Winners for Each of the Eight Nights of Chanukah
		As we light our Chanukah candles, let us honor the men and women who won the Nobel Peace Prize, for bearing their country's burdens of finding peace.
		Jewish Celebrations formally denounce the award given to Arafat the terrorist.
	www.mazornet.com /jewishcl/Holidays/Chanukah/eightnights-nobel.htm (751 words)

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