About 150 Jewish scientists living in the Diaspora have received the Nobel Prize since it was established in 1901, compared to only six Israelis. what has created a shortage israeli nobel laureate in science?
Small amount invested in civilian research institutes, Prof. of Materials Science. Dan Schechtman answered at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa while on sabbatical in the US. he was speaking on thursday jerusalem post‘S celebrate the faces of israel Conference marking the 75th anniversary of Israel’s independence at the capital’s Museum of Tolerance.
“We should have had many more Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry,” he said, noting that all those who won did major research work abroad because they did not have the facilities here. Prof. Dan Schechtman
“Every US government department has research laboratories, so most Nobel laureates are from the US. Our Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology has a very low budget. We need more investment. This will bring back expatriate Israeli scientists who work abroad Doing good,” Shechtman insisted.
Sitting next to him on the dais was 93-year-old Prof. Robert (Israel) Amon – mathematician at the Hebrew University’s Center for the Study of Rationality and one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory who received his 2005 award for his work on conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis For the late American economist Prof. Nobel in Economics with Thomas Schelling.
“Judaism’s core value is Torah study, It is equated with all Jewish values and has become the passion of all intellectual pursuits. [Among non-Jews], When a rich man wanted to marry a daughter, he looked for a rich man for the daughter. In Jewish culture, the man went to a yeshiva and asked who was the best student of the Torah.
How can youth be successful?
Auman said that youth always ask him what he should do to be successful.
“Some people say hard work, persistence, but I don’t think it’s important. Do what you love – what interests you. You need a little persistence, but the main thing is what pulls you in.”
Shechtman agreed but added: “Try to be number one in whatever you do, whether it’s chemistry or playing the saxophone. The best in your subject, in your school, in your field, in your country and in the world.” Be
Neuroimmunology Prof. of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Michal Schwartz, who received the Israel Prize in Life Sciences on Independence Day, agreed that one needs to have passion and to believe in what one does, but you also have to invest a lot of time and effort.
For decades he believed that the immune system and not necessarily brain aging was responsible for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, when Weisman and his colleagues around the world debunked his theories. But she challenged the old dogma and finally published her first paper in Nature in 1998 that proved she was right. For many decades, it was believed that the brain was isolated from the immune system because of the blood–brain barrier and that any immune activity in the brain was indicative of pathology.
“Target therapy to the immune system, not the brain. Seven years ago, we founded a startup for an immune-based therapy and have completed a preclinical study that will become clinical in Israeli, American and European medical centers. It aims to halt the progression of dementia and make Alzheimer’s a curable disease.