Nobel laureates in LBI collections
Please find books, portraits, photographs and archival materials by or about Nobel laureates from the LBI Library, its Archives and its Art and Objects Collection.
True to the Leo Baeck Institute’s mission, most physicians, scientists, authors or advocates for peace that are represented here were Jews from German speaking lands, but there are also German Gentiles (for example Thomas Mann); non-German Jews (for example Shmuel Yosef Agnon) or those who were neither German speakers nor Jewish (for example Marie Curie).
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1887-1970
- Baeyer, Adolf von, 1835-1917
- Barany, Robert, 1876-1936
- Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
- Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
- Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
- Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985
- Born, Max, 1882-1970
- Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994
- Cassin, René, 1887-1976
- Chain, Ernst Boris, 1906-1979
- Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
- Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933
- Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
- Franck, James, 1882-1964
- Fried, Alfred Hermann, 1864-1921
- Gide, André, 1869-1951
- Grass, Günter, 1927-
- Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934
- Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968
- Handke, Peter
- Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946
- Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
- Hertz, Gustav, 1887-
- Herzberg, Gerhard, 1904-1999
- Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962
- Hevesy, Georg von, 1885-1966
- Heyse, Paul, 1830-1914
- Jelinek, Elfriede, 1946-
- Kandel, Eric R.
- Katz, Bernard, 1911-
- Kertész, Imre, 1929-
- Kissinger, Henry A., 1923-
- Krebs, Hans Adolf, 1900-1981
- Landsteiner, Karl, 1868-1943
- Lipmann, Fritz (Fritz Albert), 1899-1986
- Loewi, Otto, 1873-1961
- Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928
- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955
- Marshall, George C., 1880-1959
- Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972
- Meyerhof, Otto, 1884-1951
- Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
- Müller, Herta, 1953-
- Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930
- Ossietzky, Carl von, 1889-1938
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
- Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958
- Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
- Penzias, Arno A.
- Planck, Max, 1858-1947
- Prigogine, I. (Ilya)
- Quidde, Ludwig, 1858-1941
- Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
- Sachs, Nelly, 1891-1970
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965
- Stern, Otto, 1888-1969
- Stresemann, Gustav, 1878-1929
- Suttner, Bertha von, 1843-1914
- Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
- Tokarczuk, Olga
- Wallach, Otto, 1847-1931
- Warburg, Otto Heinrich, 1883-1970
- Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016
- Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
- Willstätter, Richard, 1872-1942
- Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943