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Israel@70: 12 Giants of Israel Honored by Nobel

Literature

1966 — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“For his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people”


Peace

1978 — Menachem Begin

“For the  peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt


1994 – Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin

“For  their efforts  to create peace in the Middle East”


Economics

2002 — Daniel Kahneman

“For having integrated insights from  psychological research into economic science


2005 — Robert Aumann

“For having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through  game-theory  analysis”


Chemistry

2004 — Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko       

“For the discovery of  ubiquitin -mediated protein degradation”


2009 — Ada Yonat

“For studies of the structure and function of the  ribosome


2011 — Dan Shechtman

“For the discovery of  quasicrystals

2013 — Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel     

“For the development of  multiscale models  for complex chemical systems”