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

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

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '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. Artikel-Nr. 9780578629223

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