Of the 100 people making history in the world today 15 are Jews, it was reported this week by Look magazine in an article by Donald Robinson, former chief historian for the U.S. Military Government in Germany. In the field of public affairs, the author includes David Ben Gurion of Israel, Pierre Mendes-France, former French Premier, and Irving Brown, American Federation of Labor representative in Europe.
The other Jewish names on the list are: Rene Mayer of France; Lazar M. Kaganovich of Russia; David Sarnoff of the United States; Arthur H. Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; Dr. Edward Teller, designer of U.S. nuclear weapons; Peter Kapitza, Soviet physicist; Dr. Jonas Salk, American bacteriologist; Dr. Selman Waksman, American microbiologist; Dr. Hans Krebs, British biochemist; Dr. Bernard N. Halpern, French chemist and Tadeus Reichstein, Swiss chemist; and Professor Martin Buber, Israel theologian.
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