Jewish mind: Six Jewish Nobel Prize winners

In recent days Swedish Academy declared the names of the annual Nobel Prize winners in four areas: literature, medicine, chemistry and physics [Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by Norway , while the economics award is given by the Central Bank of Sweden ] .

After Israel recorded a disappointment on Tuesday, when it became clear that two Israeli doctors who were nominated in the category of medicine were not in it, there was an achievement today (Wednesday ) with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry of Aryeh Warshal, an Israeli living in the U.S., in collaboration with two other Jews - Michael Leavitt living in Rechovot and Martin Karplus .

Warshal, who was born in Kibbutz Sde Nahum adjacent to Beit Shean, is known for his work in the field of computational biochemistry and biophysics, and he was a pioneer of computerized simulations of biological processes - among other things, Warshal developed a computational method called enzimol. Warshal earned a doctorate at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was a researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology of the Institute in the years 1976-1972.

"In short, what we have developed is a way that requires a computer to take the structure of the protein, and then at some point figure out exactly how he does what he does. If you have an enzyme digesting food, you want to understand how this happens, and you can use it to plan drugs, and in my case - satisfy your curiosity", Warshal explained his handiwork.

However, the medicine prize was won in part by two Jews: Prof. James Rothman and Prof. Randy Beckman.

Yesterday was also Jewish Nobel Prize in Physics: Belgian Francois Englert, who won in collaboration with Peter Higgs, the discovery of the Higgs boson, is also known as the 'God particle'.

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