JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE DIRAC MEDAL
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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.NOTES
- Edward Witten (1985)
- Yakov Zeldovich (1985)
- Alexander Polyakov 1 (1986)
- Bryce DeWitt 2 (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 3 (1995)
- Stephen Adler (1998)
- Paul Steinhardt (2002)
- Alan Guth 4 (2002)
- Robert Kraichnan (2003)
1. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_p.htm.
2. Jewish father (Dr. Lewis Lipman Seligman), non-Jewish mother. DeWitt was born Carl Bryce Seligman.
3. See The Jewish Year Book: 2005, edited by Stephen Massil (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2005, p. 213).
4. See Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, by Dennis Overbye (Harper, New York, 1992, p. 217).
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