JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE DIRAC MEDAL
(33% of recipients)
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Listed below are recipients of the Dirac Medal who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted).  This award is considered to be among the two or three most prestigious in the field of theoretical physics.
  • Edward Witten (1985)
  • Yakov Zeldovich (1985)
  • Alexander Polyakov (1986)
  • Bryce DeWitt 1 (1987)
  • Efim Fradkin (1988)
  • David Gross (1988)
  • Michael Green (1989)
  • John Schwarz (1989)
  • Sidney Coleman (1990)
  • Jeffrey Goldstone (1991)
  • Stanley Mandelstam (1991)
  • Yakov Sinai (1992)
  • Daniel Freedman (1993)
  • Sir Michael Berry (1995)
  • Stephen Adler (1998)
  • Paul Steinhardt (2002)
  • Alan Guth (2002)
  • Robert Kraichnan (2003)
  • Édouard Brézin (2011)
NOTES
1. Jewish father (Dr. Lewis Lipman Seligman), non-Jewish mother.  DeWitt was born Carl Bryce Seligman.
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