Nobel Prize Winners

Question 1

Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Shai Agnon
S.Y. Agnon

Answer 1

5 March 1934

Economics 2002

Named

Question 2

Robert John Aumann

Answer 2

8 June 1930

Economics 2005
With Thomas Schelling

Question 3

Menachem Begin

Answer 3

6 August 1913 - 9 March 1992

Peace 1978
With Anwar Sadat

Signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979

Question 4

Aaron Ciechanover

Answer 4

1 October 1947

Chemistry

Voted co 31st greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 greatest Israelis, in 2005

Question 5

Avram Hershko

Answer 5

31 December 1937

Chemistry

Received his M.D. in 1965
Received his Ph.D in 1969

Question 6

Daniel Kahneman

Answer 6

5 March 1934

Economics 2002

Named by Foreign Policy magazine to it’s list of top global thinkers in 2011

Question 7

Shimon Peres

Answer 7

2 August 1923 - 28 September 2016

Peace 1994
With Yitzchak and Yasser Arafat

Political career spanned over 66 years

Question 8

Yitzchak Rabin

Answer 8

1 March 1922 - 4 November 1995

Peace 1994
With Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat

Assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical Yigal Amir, who was opposed to Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords, in 1995

Question 9

Dan Shechtman

Answer 9

24 January 1941

Chemistry 2011

Question 10

Ada E. Yonath

Answer 10

22 June 1939

Chemistry 2009
With Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz