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Jewry's Role in
Human Events

LEAVING THEIR IMPRINTS ON THE WORLD
Our columns have often showcased Jewish men and women whose
achievements have been honored by the world's most distinguished body of
their peers: The Nobel Prize Committee. What is most astonishing is how
many of our kinsmen were named to its rolls since the award program was
implemented in 1901. The century has seen people of Jewish origin win
more than twenty-percent of the prizes given--while we number less than
one-quarter of one-percent of the world's population.
It is also a matter of interest that many of our Nobel Laureates were
born elsewhere than America and have been represented in every category
within which the awards are presented. Honorees such as:

NADINE GORDIMER
(1923-) b. Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
Novelist She published her first work at age
fifteen and has since produced ten novels and more
than 200 short stories. Her writings movingly
lashed out against the cruelties of apartheid and
decried racial segregation for what it was--
degrading to her native country and to other
African states. Through the experiences of her
characters, Gordimer explored clearly and without sentimentality how
officially-imposed prejudice and repression devastated lives and offended
the basic principles of social justice. She was the first woman in a
generation to win a Nobel Prize for Literature (1991), and has had several
of her books banned by the former South African government. While in
mid-career, Gordimer also taught and lectured at colleges in the U.S. and
supported political movements to rescind her nation's racist policies.
Among her best known and most poignant works were A Guest of Honour
(1970), The Conservationist (1974), Burger's Daughter (1979) and A Sport
of Nature (1987).

KONRAD BLOCH, Ph.D.
Biochemist
(1912-) b. Neisse, Germany
Cholesterol has become a health topic of concern
that eclipses most others in popular and medical
discourse. Among its early and most prominent
researchers is a foreign born Ph.D. (emigrating to
the U.S. in 1936) who won a 1964 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries of the
mechanism of cholesterol and fatty acid metabo-
lism." Konrad Bloch escaped Nazism after earning a chemical engineering
degree in Germany and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University in
1938. Soon after, he launched studies of unsaturated fatty acid components
which he continued through the 1950s as a professor of biochemistry at
Harvard. In hand with several collaborators, Bloch discovered how
cholesterol is synthesized in the body and the relationship of its blood levels
to the formation of atherosclerosis--a breakthrough in understanding
cardiovascular disease. The former associate editor of the Journal of
Biological Chemistry was also a prolific writer with hundreds of scientific
papers dealing, as well, with the metabolism of proteins and amino acids.

GEORGE CHARLES de HEVESY, Ph.D.
(1885-1966) b. Budapest, Hungary Chemist
Within half a decade, the tireless researcher was
instrumental in bringing three important findings
to the world of science. In 1923, then a colleague
of Neils Bohr, he co-discovered a new chemical
element which he called hafnium. That same year,
while at the University of Freiburb in Germany,
he developed the first biological use of radioactive
tracers for which he was to earn a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1949. And
by 1926, de Hevesy introduced X-ray fluorescence--a new system for
calculating the chemical composition of rocks, minerals and meteorites.
After a dramatic escape from wartime German oppression--aboard a fishing
boat to Sweden--the professor took refuge in Stockholm University's
Institute of Organic Chemistry. Here he continued biological research into
the effects of radiation, particularly as they relate to cancer and anemia.
Much honored internationally for his pioneering discoveries, de Hevesy also
received a prestigious Atoms for Peace Award in 1959.
- Saul Stachmauer

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