Iowa State scientist wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

http://thegazette.com/2011/10/05/iowa-state-scientist-wins-nobel-prize/ ^ | 10/04/2011 | AP

[iowamark]

Award given for Shechtman's controversial 1982 discovery of quasicrystals.

An Iowa State University scientist has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Daniel Shechtman was named the winner of the prize Wednesday for his 1982 discovery of quasicrystals, a chemical structure researchers previously thought was impossible.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says Shechtman’s discovery showed atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that could not be repeated. It was previously thought atoms were packed in crystals in symmetrical patterns. The discovery changed the way chemists look at solid matter...

[iowamark]

Many Israeli scientists work part time in the US because of the low salaries in Israel.

Iowa State, Ames Laboratory, Technion Scientist Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[RobinOfKingston]

Based on recent distributions of the Nobel prize for this or that, Mr Schechtman should have been awarded the prize in 1981 for his 1982 discovery.

[ilovesarah2012]

Israeli among 4 Jewish scientists to win Nobels

An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry, and Jewish scientists also took prizes in physics and medicine.

Daniel Shechtman, 70, a distinguished professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was announced as a Nobel winner on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, mosaics of atoms that form regular patterns that never repeat themselves.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/sci-tech/article/israeli_scientist_wins_nobel_prize_in_chemistry_20111005/

[Sigurdrifta]

There is an interesting aspect to the Nobel Prize. If you look at the Peace and Literature prizes, they are much more politicized. They are even I believe awarded by a different group. The Peace prize has after all been awarded to the likes of terrorists like Yassir Arafat, and to people who have done nothing to deserve it (our current president, for example).

The prizes awarded to physicists, chemists, economists etc are typically awarded to people who have worked in their field for decades to get to that point. (Norman Borlaug, who did a lot of the agricultural work that produced the green revolution also comes to mind.)

BTW, the Israelis have been awarded over 150 Nobel Prizes in those fields.
As far as I can tell, the whole Muslim world has been awarded something like 10 or so. Considering the 1.3B (or is it 1.5 or 1.7 ? It depends on what number CAIR comes up with in a given week) Muslims in the world compared to the roughly 15M or so Israelis, that is quite a lopsided ratio.

[Sigurdrifta]

There is an interesting aspect to the Nobel Prize. If you look at the Peace and Literature prizes, they are much more politicized. They are even I believe awarded by a different group. The Peace prize has after all been awarded to the likes of terrorists like Yassir Arafat, and to people who have done nothing to deserve it (our current president, for example).

The prizes awarded to physicists, chemists, economists etc are typically awarded to people who have worked in their field for decades to get to that point. (Norman Borlaug, who did a lot of the agricultural work that produced the green revolution also comes to mind.)

BTW, the Israelis have been awarded over 150 Nobel Prizes in those fields.
As far as I can tell, the whole Muslim world has been awarded something like 10 or so. Considering the 1.3B (or is it 1.5 or 1.7 ? It depends on what number CAIR comes up with in a given week) Muslims in the world compared to the roughly 15M or so Israelis, that is quite a lopsided ratio.

[Sigurdrifta]

OOPS...Sorry for the double post folks (senior moment fingers I guess)

[Sigurdrifta]

Of course, given Paul Krugman (another “social scientist”), economics used to have good awardees, but may be in the Literature Prize camp now.

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[fishtank]

I’m convinced it has nothing to do with native intelligence, and everything to do with culture, worldview and ..... religion. (Even though many Israelis are not religious. They benefit from the culture and worldview of the Jewish society.)

[righttackle44]

I read a thing not too long about about how many Jewish Nobel laureates Tere are versus the number of Nobel laureates with Muslim heritage. Excerpt from a previous Free Republic post. Boldface is my editorializing

Nobel facts

The following are true facts and verified statistics: The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes
:
Literature 1988 - Najib Mahfooz. Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yasser Arafat Physics: 1990 - Elias James Corey 1999 - Ahmed Zewail Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is aproximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1972 - William Howard Stein 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1989 - Sidney Altman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 -! Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis Physics: 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1995 - Martin Perl

[Sigurdrifta]

I agree. This was a point made by Bill Whittle in his excellent essay “Tribes”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks iowamark.

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