(Prior to 1934)

               NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS:
               Awards to Jews:
                  Pre: 1934

ASSER, Tobias Michael Carel
      Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1838 and died at The Hague, 1913;
awarded prize in 1911 for peace propaganda.

BARANY, Robert
      Born in Vienna, Austria, 1876 awarded prize for medicine, 1914, for
researches in physiology and pathology of the auditory canal.

BERGSON, Henri
      Born in Paris, France, 1859; awarded prize in literature in 1927, for
philosophical writings.

EHRLICH, Paul
       Born in Strehlen, Silesia and died in Homburg, 1925; awarded prize

for medicine, 1908, for researches in trypan-red for sterilization.

EINSTEIN, Albert
       Born in Ulm, Wurttemberg, 1879. He was awarded prize in physics,
1921, for researches in astro-physics.

FRANCK, James
      He was born in Hamburg, 1882; awarded prize in physics, 1925, for
researches in theories of atoms.

FRIED, Alfred H.
        Born in Vienna, 1864: died there in 1921; awarded prize, 1911, for
comprehensive peace propaganda.

HABER, Fritz
        Born in Breslau, 1868: Died in Basle, 1934; awarded prize in
chemistry, 1918, for researches in the synthesis of ammonia.

HERTZ,  Gustav
         He was born in Hamburg, 1887; awarded prize in physics, 1925, for
researches in theories of electrons.

LANDSTEINER, Karl
         He was born in Vienna, 1868; awarded prize in medicine, 1930, for
discoveries in classifying different types of human blood.

LIPPMAN,  Gabriel
         Born in Hallerich, Luxembourg, 1845: died there, 1921; awarded
prize in physics, 1908, for researches in color photography.

MEYERHOFF, Otto
         Born in Hanover, Germany, 1884; awarded prize in medicine, 1922,
for researches in the transformation of energy in the muscles.

MICHELSON,  Albert Abraham
         Born in Strelno, Prussia, 1852: Died in Pasadena, California, 1931;
awarded prize in physics, 1907, for researches with spectroscopy and
interferometer.

WALLACH,  Otto
         Born in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, 1847; awarded prize in
chemistry, 1910, for researches in essential oils and terpenes.

WARBURG,  Otto H.
          Born in Berlin, 1883; awarded prize in chemistry, 1922, for
researches in the metabolism of carcinoma in relation to iron as a catalytic
agent in the human system

WILLSTAETTER,  Richard
           Born in Karlsruhe, Baden, 1872; awarded prize in chemistry, 1915,
for researches in alkaloids (atropine and cocaine) aniline dyes and
vegetable coloring matters.

      The following Nobel prize winners were half-Jews, their mothers being
Jewesses:  A.von Baeyer, Niels Bohr, Elias Metschnikoff and Paul Heyse.
       It has been estimated that the Jews represent 9 per cent. (with the
half-Jews 12 per cent.)of the Nobel prize winners, whilst the Jews do not
exceed 1 per cent. of the general population of the Western world.


Source: "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Knowledge (in one volume)
Edited by:  Jacob De Haas (in collaboration with more than one hundred and
fifty scholars and specialists)
Publisher:  Behrman's Jewish Book House-New York
Copyright:  1934

Researched and Transcribed by Miriam Medina
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