Three Americans--two of them Jews--won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine this week. James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Suedhof won the prize for research into the amazing "vesicle traffic" which carries "cargo" within the living cell. Rothman is a professor at Yale University, Schekman, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Suedhof, a professor at Stanford University. Of the 800 Nobel prizes that have been awarded since 1901, roughly 20% have gone to Jews, though they comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population. (Friday Church News Notes, October 11, 2013, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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