The Super Achievers: The Remarkable Jewish Contribution to Science and Human Well-being Highlighted by Nobel Prize Winners

Gerstl, Ronald

ISBN 10: 0578629224 / ISBN 13: 9780578629223

Published by Ronald Gerstl, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Super Achievers: The Remarkable Jewish Contribution to Science and Human Well-being Highlighted by Nobel Prize Winners
• Publisher: Ronald Gerstl
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578629224
• ISBN 13: 9780578629223
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Synopsis

“With only 0.2% of the world population, Jews have been awarded almost 24% of Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics and chemistry.
American Jews, accounting for 2% of all Americans, have received 37% of all U.S. awards. The vastly disproportionate award winners exemplifies Jewish exceptionalism.”

The Super Achievers examines such topics as:
• The rarified world of Nobel Prizes
• What factors likely account for Jewish exceptionalism
• How America benefited from scientists who fled Nazism
• The rise of Israel as a science and technology powerhouse
• Lives and discoveries of groundbreaking Jewish laureates
• Prizewinners’ origins, family and educational backgrounds
• Tectonic shifts: Where Jews live now and where they used to live
• Barriers to Breakthroughs: The Jewish American experience
• Nobel science award recipients worldwide
• Women who won Nobel Prizes in science
• Are science and religion compatible?

You’ll also discover…
• The first American to receive a Nobel Prize in science—a Jewish Naval officer
• The German Jewish inventor of poisonous gas used in extermination camps
• Einstein’s Nobel Prize was not for the Theory of Relativity
• Why Jonas Salk did not receive a Nobel Prize
• The 18-year-old Harvard student who was recruited to work on the atomic bomb project
• The Nobel physicist who solved the mystery of the Challenger space disaster
• The physician whose death was kept a secret so he could win a Nobel Prize
• An entrepreneurial laureate whose discoveries led to creating major pharmaceutical companies
• The oldest Nobel science prize winner—a ninety-six-year-old in 2018
• The Nobel physicists who had to wait fifty years to have their findings corroborated

. . . and much more