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Author Imre Kertesz, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Kertesz portrayed the horrors of Auschwitz in some of his writings and was the first Hungarian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Jewish physicist’s Nobel Prize sells for $765K

Leon Lederman, 92, decided to sell the medal he shared with two others in 1988 after he was diagnosed with dementia.

The Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Wouldn’t Let the Nazis Keep Her Down

Born in Turin, in northwestern Italy, on April 22, 1909, Rita Levi-Montalcini had began her research on nerve cells at the University of Turin. But after being banned from the university in a purge of Jews in 1938, and then forced to hide during the Nazi occupation of Italy, she immigrated to the United States […]

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