Jewish Contributions to World Civilization

Iftekhar Hai wrote:

Dear Friends:

Just see below the contribution of Jewish people in the fields of science, chemistry, physics, literature, economics, medicine, etc. This population is .02% of world population. Muslims are 20% of world population.

Why is it that 20% of Muslims of the world are no match for the 0.2% of Jews in the field of education, science, physics, etc. etc. The Jews never read the Quran and still they have contributed to the betterment of all humanity. Muslims did contribute initially to world progress. But in the last 500 years they have not done anything significant as compared to their population numbers.

Is our educational system so corrupted that we cannot complete on world educational standards? We need thousands of people like Sir Syed Khan to revolutionize our educational system in 58 Islamic countries.


Iftekhar Hai, President
UMA Interfaith Alliance
www.umaia.net

Jewish Contributions to Society

Albert Einstein


Physicist

Jonas Salk


Created first Polio Vaccine.

Albert Sabin


Developed the oral vaccine for Polio.

Galileo


Discovered the speed of light

Selman Waksman


Discovered Streptomycin. Coined the word 'antibiotic'.

Gabriel Lipmann


Discovered color photography.

Baruch Blumberg


Discovered origin and spread of infectious diseases.

G. Edelman


Discovered chemical structure of antibodies.

Briton Epstein


Identified first cancer virus.

Maria Meyer


Structure of atomic nuclei.

Julius Mayer


Discovered law of thermodynamics.

Sigmund Freud


Father of Psychotherapy.

Christopher Columbus (Marano)


Discovered the Americas.

Benjamin Disraeli


Prime Minister of Great Britain 1804-1881

Isaac Singer


Invented the sewing machine.

Levi Strauss


Largest manufacturer of Denim Jeans.

Joseph Pulitzer


Established 'Pulitzer Prize' for achievements in journalism, literature, music & art.







Jewish Nobel Prize Winners



Literature - 13% of World Total Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews

1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak



1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Chemistry – 19% of World Total Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown



1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Herbert Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover & Irwin Rose
2006 - Roger Kornberg

Physics - 26% of World Total Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle S Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics - 41% of World Total Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine - 28% of World Total Nobel Prizes awarded to Jews
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis