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10/10/2012, Tishrei 24, 5773
American Jew Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Americans Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals.
Robert Lefkowitz is Jewish according to JINFO.org. So far two of the six Nobel Prize winners this year are Jewish.