Jewish Recipients of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry

JINFO.ORG

Listed below are recipients of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). The Wolf Prize is one of the most prestigious international awards in chemistry. Approximately one-fifth of its recipients have subsequently been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Carl Djerassi (1978)
Herman Mark¹ (1979)
John Polanyi² (1982)
Rudoph Marcus (1984/5)
Joshua Jortner (1988)
Raphael Levine (1988)
Alexander Pines (1991)
Richard Lerner (1994/5)
Gilbert Stork (1995/6)
Samuel Danishefsky (1995/6)
Gabor Somorjai (1998)
Henri Kagan (2001)
Richard Zare (2005)
George Feher (2006/7)
Ada Yonath (2006/7)
Allen Bard (2008)
Stuart Rice (2011)
Charles Lieber (2012)
Robert Langer (2013)
Robert Bergman (2017)
Stephen Buchwald (2019)
Meir Lahav (2021)
Leslie Leiserowitz (2021)
Bonnie Bassler³ (2022)
Benjamin Cravatt III⁴ (2022)

NOTES
1. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. See, e.g., the last paragraph of the section entitled "I.G. FARBENINDUSTRIE" at http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/mark-h-f.pdf.
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. Jewish father.
4. Jewish mother.

QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: CONTACT US
JEWS IN CHEMISTRY
JINFO HOME