Jewish Recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

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Listed below are recipients of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). The Horwitz Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the medical and life sciences. Approximately one-half of its recipients have subsequently been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Marshall Nirenberg (1968)
Salvador Luria (1969)
Harry Eagle (1973)
Theodore Puck (1973)
Boris Ephrussi (1974)
Seymour Benzer (1976)
Charles Yanofsky (1976)
Michael Heidelberger (1977)
Elvin Kabat (1977)
Walter Gilbert (1979)
César Milstein (1980)
Aaron Klug (1981)
Stanley Cohen (1983)
Viktor Hamburger (1983)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1983)
Michael Brown (1984)
Joseph Goldstein (1984)
Donald Brown (1985)
Mark Ptashne (1985)
Alfred Gilman (1989)
Stephen Harrison (1990)
Michael Rossmann ¹ (1990)
Stanley Prusiner (1997)
Arnold Levine (1998)
Bert Vogelstein (1998)
H. Robert Horvitz (2000)
Avram Hershko (2001)
Alexander Varshavsky (2001)
James Rothman (2002)
Randy Schekman (2002)
Ada Yonath (2005)
Roger Kornberg (2006)
Rosalind Franklin (2008 Posthumous Honorary Prize)
Arthur Horwich (2008)
Gary Ruvkun (2009)

NOTES
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father according to interview in Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror, by William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN, 2001, p. 48). See also http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/010216.Nat.Ahlbrandt.book.html.

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