COUNTRY ARCHIVE · 1994—2013
Nobel Prize winners
from Israel.
6 laureates associated by birthplace or headquarters, with 6 recipient awards across 3 Nobel categories.
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Winners associated with Israel
6 total
- Aaron Ciechanover
Born in Haifa, Israel. Recognized “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”.
- 2004Chemistry
- Ada E. Yonath
Born in Jerusalem, Israel. Recognized “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”.
- 2009Chemistry
- Arieh Warshel
Born in Kibbutz Sde-Nahum, Israel. Recognized “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
- 2013Chemistry
- Dan Shechtman
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Recognized “for the discovery of quasicrystals”.
- 2011Chemistry
- Daniel Kahneman
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel. Recognized “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty”.
- 2002Economic Sciences
- Yitzhak Rabin
Born in Jerusalem, Israel. Recognized “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.
- 1994Peace
COUNTRY TRENDS
Awards by category and decade
Recipient-award counts
Prize category
- Chemistry
- 4
- Peace
- 1
- Economic Sciences
- 1
Award decade
- 2010s
- 2
- 2000s
- 3
- 1990s
- 1