The EXTREME VICTORS of Nobel Prizes!
Muttakin Rashid Alvi
Which educated person doesn't know Albert Einstein? Rabbis and
scholars tried to mystify what it is about Jews that make them extreme
at science. Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus are the
three Jewish scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year.
Francois Englert, a Jewish scientist was half of the team that won the
Nobel Prize in Physics this year as well. James E. Rothman and Randy W.
Schekman were two of the three scientists who were awarded the Nobel
prizes in Medicine.
Jews consist only 0.2 percent of the whole planet's population. They have an astonishing 22 percent of Nobel Prizes. In fact, 6 Jewish and 2 Israelis have won Novel Prizes this year.
2 kinds of concepts have been introduced. First one is
that Jews have extraordinary genes. The Enterprise Institute scholar and
co-author of The Bell Curve, Charles Murray
set out the case for this some years ago in an essay in Commentary
called “Jewish Genius," He wrote apparently that “Something in the genes
explains nailing Jewish IQ.” Another concept is that Jews love having a
relation with the books, as Israeli economics master Robert Aumann said
that Jewish homes have overflowing bookshelves. Completely the
generations we have given great honor to this intellectual assignment.
How many times has the same old joke come up about Jewish
parents wanting their children to grow up to be doctors and engineers?
Or at the very least wed a doctor or engineer? Well, there's some truth
to the pressure of rising up in a family where not going to college is
not an option. If success within the
learning system is expected and demanded, then you're going to have a
lot more people (out of anxiety of failure and disrespecting their
families) entering the medical and law fields and succeeding, gosh darn
it, because Jewish guilt is hardcore.
After the decay of the Second Temple (the center of
Jewish religion and ceremonies), Jews needed to become literate for
continuing to study and practice Judaism. Literacy helped the religion
endure and kept Jews from becoming included into the surrounding
cultures. Literacy is also believed to be a skill necessary for economic
development. This became an advantage for the Jewish people from the
Middle Ages onward.
As imperishable outsiders, especially ones that are constant
targets of hateful crimes, Jews have learnt to be cautious, even
faithless of others, and have no problem questioning administration. The
immortal side-eye that Jews give to the world allows us to see things
through a unique lens. If you're used to questioning what is seen as
‘True’ and pushing the limits of exploration, then you're probably going
to trip upon discoveries a bit more frequently and be more open for
trying something unorthodox.
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