JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE WOLF PRIZE IN PHYSICS
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Listed below are recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics who were, or are, Jewish. The Wolf Prize is one of the most prestigious international awards in physics. Approximately one-fourth of its recipients have subsequently been awarded the Nobel Prize.
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- Michael Fisher (1980)
- Leo Kadanoff (1980)
- Victor Weisskopf (1981)
- Leon Lederman (1982)
- Martin Perl (1982)
- Erwin Hahn 1 (1983/84)
- Sir Peter Hirsch (1983/84)
- Theodore Maiman (1983/84)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum (1986)
- Albert Libchaber 2 (1986)
- Herbert Friedman (1987)
- Bruno Rossi 3 (1987)
- Maurice Goldhaber (1991)
- Valentine Telegdi 4 (1991)
- Benoit Mandelbrot (1993)
- Vitali Ginzburg (1994/95)
- Yakir Aharonov (1998)
- Sir Michael Berry 5 (1998)
- Dan Shechtman (1999)
- Bertrand Halperin (2002/03)
- Robert Brout (2004)
- Francois Englert 6 (2004)
- Daniel Kleppner (2005)
1. See The Pioneers of NMR and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: The Story of MRI, by James Mattson and Merrill Simon (Bar-Ilan University Press, Dean Books, Jericho, NY, 1996, p. 476).
2. See Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick (Viking, New York, 1987, p. 191).
3. See http://books.cambridge.org/0521364396.htm.
4. See Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists, by Magdolna and István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2004, p. 182).
5. See The Jewish Year Book: 2005, edited by Stephen Massil (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2005, p. 213).
6. See Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, by Martinus Veltman (World Scientific, Singapore, London, and River Edge, NJ, 2003, p. 287).
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