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.
Yes, it’s another in-your-face moment.
The Stanford University biologist who was named on Wednesday as this year’s Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry – Prof. Roger Kornberg – just spent four months at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is a fellow at the Alexander Silberman Institute for Life Sciences.
Kornberg told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive phone interview that his stays in Israel are a significant part of his life.
[…] Kornberg has been a visiting professor at Hebrew University four months a year every summer since 1986. His Israeli-born wife, Yahli, is the daughter of the late historian and Knesset clerk, Netanel Lorch, and their three children are fluent Hebrew speakers.
It emerged during the telephone interview while he was in his office in Stanford that Kornberg is not only academically connected to Israel, but also emotionally. He said some of the Israeli scientists he has met are the “finest scientists” he knows, adding that the level of academic and scientific research in Israel is “world class”.
So, how would the proposed academic boycotts affect the world? One would have to say that if other nations succeed at refusing to work with Israelis, or those who teach at Israeli institutions, science overall could—no, make that would suffer major setbacks.
Remember that, Britain, next time you propose that academic boycott.
And, uh, score another one for the list of Jewish Nobel prize winners. Hoo-boy, that list is long. And to think, we’re only something like one-half of one percent of the world population, but we have been awarded 23% of all Nobel prizes.
Yes, I’m gloating. Because it’s fun. And it pisses off the Jew-haters.
You’re surprised a jew won the big one? This has been going on as long as we have had Nobel prizes. Look at the state of Israel and compare it with any arab state. It’s the jooz, dude.
Forgot to say… I’m not a jew.
Howard, you’re new around here, aren’t you?
That post was not an expression of surprise.
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.
Now, Meryl, be fair–list the Arab Nobel Prize winners…there’s Yassir Arafat, of course, and…well, the number of Jewish winners compared with Arab winners just shows that the tentacles of the insidious Jews–sorry, I mean Zionists–control even the Nobel committee.
Also 50% of world chess champions. And 25% of Turing Award winners. But that’s obviously going to be true – you know that all those things are Jewish conspiracies anyway.
Arafat won a Peace Prize, which has fallen into a disrepute comparable to the Lenin Prize.
Abdus Salam is a Pakistani who won a Nobel Prize in physics for brilliant theoretical work. At least one Arab writer has won a Literature Prize (he died a couuple of weeks ago). Some other Muslims may have won Nobel Prizes but I don’t now recall any. I’d check among Indian winners for them.
Netanel Lorch wrote the Official history of the 1948 War for Zahal. It was one of the first adult history books I read as a teenager. It came out in a second edition but I have not had time to read that edition yet.
Arthur Kornberg not only won a Nobel Prize for his work in Molecular Biology but he also was a pioneer in biotechnology. He was educated as a physician originally and served as a Naval surgeon during WWII. He went back and switched to biological research after the war. He has a very interesting autobiography called “For the Love of Enzymes”. In it he still boils with rage for being rejected by the medical school he wanted to attend before WWII because they had already filled their quota of Jewish students that year, which I think was two. Fifty years later he was still angry. Look at what kind of an alum that school missed having! The wages of bigotry are humiliation.
“he still boils with rage for being rejected by the medical school he wanted to attend before WWII because they had already filled their quota of Jewish students that year, which I think was two. ”
My mothers high school teacher, Sid Nasbaum (??) was going for his PhD (oh.. about 50 years ago…) and it took a VERY long time.
As he put it, they ‘didn’t want a Jewboy among their ranks’. At the time, mom didn’t have the faintest idea what he was talking about as antisemitism was not a fault in her family. But she finally understood later – as we all do.
Sid eventually did get his PhD, but he probably put in alot of effort (with alot of it done outside his chosen field) to get it.
I know someone going for her PhD and discovered that (Shock!!!) besides having to know your field relatively well, the final decision to make you a PhD is very qualitative.
IIRC ” … Feynman, of course, is Jewish.” was the title of a chapter in his biography. HE almost didn’t get into graduate school because it already had too many Jews.
Michael Lonie is 100% correct about the wages of biogtry.
BTW, I believe the Curies have the most single family Nobels. Husband/Wife/Child.
I’d like to mention a couple of other rather prominent (American) Jews who were rejected by medical schools because of their ethnicity.There was a guy at NIH named Margolis who ended with a Nobel for his work in pharmacology.Among other things he discovered Tylenol.And a biochemist named Asimov (dabbled in writing) was also rejected for beieng a Jew. I believe Arthur Kornberg was the model for the doctor in Crichton’s “Andromeda Strain”.
But Meryl,the two brightest people in my class were—Armenian.)But I guess it’s close.)Back to work