"Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but is heard of, has always been heard of. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it." --Mark Twain
Even Mark Twain would be surprised that with only 0.2% of the world's population, Jews have been awarded almost one out of four of all Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, and chemistry, while Jewish Americans have received 37% of U.S. awards. This vastly disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners highlights Jewish achievement and contributions to mankind.
The SuperAchievers examines the following topics: - The rarified world of Nobel Prizes - Lives and discoveries of groundbreaking Jewish laureates - Prizewinners' origins, family and educational backgrounds - Factors that may explain Jewish exceptionalism - Tectonic shifts: Where Jews live now and where they used to live - How America benefited from scientists who fled Nazism - Barriers to Breakthroughs: The Jewish American experience - Women who won Nobel Prizes in science - The rise of Israel as a world science and technology powerhouse - Are science and religion compatible? - Nobel science awards around the world
You'll also discover... - The first American to receive a Nobel Prize in science--a Jewish Naval officer - The German Jewish inventor of poisonous gas used in extermination camps - Einstein's Nobel Prize was not for the Theory of Relativity - Why Jonas Salk did not receive a Nobel Prize - The 18-year-old Harvard student who was recruited to work on the atomic bomb project - The Nobel physicist who solved the mystery of the Challenger space disaster - The physician whose death was kept a secret so he could win a Nobel Prize - An entrepreneurial laureate whose discoveries led to creating major pharmaceutical companies - The oldest Nobel science prize winner--a ninety-six-year-old in 2018 - The Nobel physicists who had to wait fifty years to have their findings corroborated . . . and much more
Автор: Hugo N Gerstl Название: Stalemate: There Can Be No Winners ISBN: 1941905234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941905234 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 17150.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Fifty years ago, Libertyville, Alabama population 2,000, was poised to become the next Atlanta. But today, the population is 278 and falling. The towns remaining employer, Libertyville Cotton Works, owned by an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor, has been sold to a conglomerate that intends to reap huge tax and political benefits. But two other factions have different ideas. The spellbinding African-American televangelist whose church takes in $500 million a year from the poorest of the poor, decides the church needs a new symbol of salvation the Libertyville Cotton Works and its surrounding 40 acres. Hell do whatever it takes to ensure the church gets the property. Meanwhile, a brilliant, half-crazed Mexican-American lawyer, faced with the new Presidents attitude toward illegals, gang-bangers, and criminals, seeks to create his own Sanctuary Nation. His army takes control of the cotton works, holding hostages to ensure the factory and its acreage are deeded to the first truly Mexican town in the Southeastern U.S. The stage is set for a Stalemate of epic proportions, a war where there can be no winners. Like James Dickeys Deliverance, Stalemate is a mixture of thriller, adventure, camaraderie, dread, and the horror that only an unexpected, unspeakable situation can inflict. Human nature is human nature; it is impossible to predict how anyone would act confronted with a similar situation. Powerful and suspenseful, Stalemate explores the best and worst in the human spirit as it thunders to a spine-chilling climax. Multiple international best-selling author Hugo N. Gerstls (Scribe, Against All Odds, The Wrecking Crew, Assassin, Arcade, Billy Jenkins) work is a page-turner you cant put down; one youll long remember.
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