Fields & Nobel Prizes

The Hebrew University is Israel’s leading institution of higher education and multi-disciplinary research and is ranked by international ranking surveys among the world’s top 100 universities. An expression of the University’s high level and quality of its research can be seen in the top prizes and awards won by its researchers, capped by the Nobel Prizes and the Fields Medal in Mathematics won by graduates and staff members of the University.

Fields & Nobel Prizes winners from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

• > Elon Lindenstrauss Winner of the Fields Medal in Mathematics, 2010

• > Roger D. Kornberg Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2006

• > Aaron Ciechanover Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2004
• > Daniel Kahneman Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2002
• > Ada E. Yonath Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2009
• > Avram Hershko Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2004
• > David J. Gross Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2004
• > Albert Einstein Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1921
• > Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann Winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005