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

With only 0.2% of the worlds population Jews have been awarded 24% of all Nobel Prizes in medicine and science. American Jews who number 2% of U.S. citizens have received 37% of the American awards.This vastly disproportionate number award winners exemplifies Jewish achievement and contributions to knowledge and human well-being.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 that 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?Youll 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- Einsteins 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