How many Muslims have won Nobel prizes?
How many Muslims have won Nobel prizes? There are 117 times as many Muslims as Jews and the Jews have won 184 Nobel prizes. How many have the Muslims won? You'll find the answer to that and many other questions when you go to the videotape.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip:
Leah P).
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In case you're wondering, the speaker is Brother Rashid, a Moroccan-Christian preacher.
Some might call this the ultimate answer to BDS.
Heh.
Labels: BDS, Jews, Muslims, Nobel laureates
This is rich: UK Nobel prize co-winner boycotts university of his Israeli co-winner
These people have
no shame. None. Tom Gross reports.
François Englert, 80, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, was yesterday
awarded the Nobel Prize in physics together with British physicist Peter
Higgs.
Englert is a Sackler Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy
at Tel Aviv University, and has taught at, done research at, and been
associated with Tel Aviv University for over 30 years. He is also a
professor emeritus at the University of Brussels.
Interesting – but not surprisingly – in their reports yesterday,
media outlets with a track record of hostility to Israel, such as the
New York Times, did not mention in their quite lengthy articles that
Englert, a Belgium-born Jew, is a professor at Tel Aviv University, and a
Holocaust survivor.
In 2004, Englert, Higgs and Robert Brout won the Wolf prize, an
Israeli award granted by the Wolf Foundation and seen as a precursor to
the Nobel. (Englert’s colleague Robert Brout passed away in 2011;
otherwise he may have also shared yesterday’s Nobel Prize.)
(Tom Gross exclusive:) Englert’s British co-winner of Nobel Prize for
Physics, Professor Peter Higgs, effectively refuses to acknowledge the
fact his co-recipient teaches at Tel Aviv University. Higgs is calling
for an academic boycott of Israel, and refused to attend the Wolf prize
ceremony.
On Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to two American
Jewish professors, James Rothman and Randy Schekman, together with
Thomas Suedhof of Germany. They narrowly beat their Israeli colleagues
to the prize. Hebrew University professors Howard Cedar and Aaron Razing
were thought to be frontrunners in the run-up to the announcement.
Both Israeli and Diaspora Jews have won an incredibly high number of Nobel Prizes.
Unbelievable.
Labels: BDS, British anti-Semitism, Israeli Nobel prizes, Nobel laureates, Tel Aviv University
And again: Israeli wins Nobel prize in Chemistry
Yet another Israeli - the third in recent years - has won a Nobel prize in Chemistry. The winner is
Daniel Shechtman of the Technion. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli or Israeli-born scientist to win a Nobel Prize, and the third to win for chemistry.
Shechtman discovered quasicrystals, which have non-repeating patterns the committee described as "fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms."
Prior to his discovery, crystals were thought to only have repeating patterns. The controversy of his finding was so great that Shechtman was asked, at one point, to leave his research group. His research, ultimately, prevailed, using Arabic mosaic patterns, which rely on mathematical non-repeating patterns, as a model.
Schechtman's discovery was made in 1982. Ironically, Israel Radio reports that Schechtman is actually a Physicist, and while it was widely believed he would eventually win a Nobel prize, it was expected to be in Physics and not in Chemistry.
YNet reports that the
Technion is quite pleased.
Shechtman, 70, is a distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie congratulated Shechtman on his win.
"This is a day of celebration not just for the Technion but for the entire State of Israel. We are very excited. We always knew that Prof. Shechtman's discoveries changed the face of science, and it was clear to us that he would win the desired prize at some point. We are happy that it happened this year."
Lavie described Shechtman as a "very unique scientist."
"On the one hand his exceptional international status, but on the other hand he's one of the must beloved and modest people in the Technion. We heard of his win just like everyone else. The tension was high and within a few minutes the news of his win spread like wild fire," said Lavie.
Knesset Education Committee Chairman Alex Miller congratulated Shechtman as well.
"This win proves once more that the human capital is the most important strategic asset of the State of Israel. Investing in education and in qualitative and investigative higher learning not only results in economical and cultural growths but also brings great honor to Israel around the world."
...
Yoav Shechtman, Prof. Daniel Shechtman's son told Ynet that announcement had taken the family by surprise: "You don't know that you've won until the very last moment," he said. "It's a great joy, the family feels wonderful. We are delighted about it." An overwhelmed Shechtman told AP: "It feels wonderful."
This little tidbit will be of interest to at least one reader: Israel Radio reported that Schechtman's Bachelor's degree from the Technion was in Mechanical Engineering.
UPDATE 5:51 PMReader
Reuven K notes:
Back then, those who studied materials were part of the Mechanical Engineering faculty. The Technion only opened a separate Faculty of Materials Engineering in 1981. Even today, within Mechanical Engineering faculty there are those whose research is mostly in materials.
Labels: Daniel Schechtman, Israeli Nobel prizes, Nobel laureates, Technion
Nobel laureates speak out against BDS
38 Nobel laureates have signed onto a statement drafted by
Scholars for Middle East Peace against academic boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) actions against Israeli academics, Israeli academic institutions and academic centers and institutes of research and training with affiliations in Israel.
Of special concern are the continued threat of a boycott by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, of Ben Gurion University in Israel, student government divestment efforts in the University of California system, an attempt to get signatures for the California Initiative to divest pension funds from companies doing business with Israel or Israeli companies, as well as the initiative to shut down the Georgia Law Enforcement and Education Center at Georgia State University which has training and research connections with similar institutions in Israel.
A central theme of the Nobel Laureates’ statement is:
“Academic and cultural boycotts, divestments and sanctions in the academy are:
* antithetical to principles of academic and scientific freedom,
* antithetical to principles of freedom of expression and inquiry, and
* may well constitute discrimination by virtue of national origin.”
Instead of fostering peace, these boycott and divestment efforts are likely to be counterproductive to the dynamics of reconciliation that lead to peace.
Two of the signatories are from the Technion and one of the others is Elie Wiesel. One of them was a college professor of mine.
Unfortunately, I'll be surprised if it helps.
Labels: BDS, boycott Israel, Nobel laureates, Scholars for Middle East Peace
