JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE WOLF PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
(41% of recipients)
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NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.  See, e.g., the last paragraph of the section entitled "I.G. FARBENINDUSTRIE"  at http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/hmark.html.
2. Son of the Hungarian Jewish physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi.   See also Ismerjük''oket?: zsidó származású nevezetes magyarok arcképcsarnoka, by István Reményi Gyenes (Ex Libris, Budapest, 1997).
3. See interview in Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists, by Istvan Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2003, p. 117).
4. See story by Leslie Katz entiled "Chemist, Shoah survivor nets Wolf Prize" in The Jewish News Weekly (formerly THE JEWISH BULLETIN) of Northern California, 30 January, 1998: http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7905/edition_id/150/format/html/displaystory.html.
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