"With only 0.2% of the world's population, Jews have been awarded 24% of all Nobel Prizes in medicine and science. American Jews, who number 2% of U.S. citizens, have received 37% of the American awards. This vastly disproportionate number award winners exemplifies Jewish achievement and contributions to knowledge and human well-being." The Super Achievers examines such topics as: ¿ The rarified world of Nobel Prizes ¿ What factors likely account for Jewish exceptionalism ¿ How America benefited from scientists that fled Nazism ¿ The rise of Israel as a science and technology powerhouse ¿ Lives and discoveries of groundbreaking Jewish laureates ¿ Prizewinners' origins, family and educational backgrounds ¿ Tectonic shifts: Where Jews live now and where they used to live ¿ Barriers to Breakthroughs: The Jewish American experience ¿ Nobel science award recipients worldwide ¿ Women who won Nobel Prizes in science ¿ Are science and religion compatible? You'll also discover... ¿ The first American to receive a Nobel Prize in science-a Jewish Naval officer ¿ The German Jewish inventor of poisonous gas used in extermination camps ¿ Einstein's Nobel Prize was not for the Theory of Relativity ¿ Why Jonas Salk did not receive a Nobel Prize ¿ The 18-year-old Harvard student who was recruited to work on the atomic bomb project ¿ The Nobel physicist who solved the mystery of the Challenger space disaster ¿ The physician whose death was kept a secret so he could win a Nobel Prize ¿ An entrepreneurial laureate whose discoveries led to creating major pharmaceutical companies ¿ The oldest Nobel science prize winner-a ninety-six-year-old in 2018 ¿ The Nobel physicists who had to wait fifty years to have their findings corroborated . . . and much more