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Pages in category "Israeli inventions" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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A state cannot be created by decree, but by the forces of a people and in the course of generations. Even if all the governments of the world gave us a country, it would only be a gift of words. But if the Jewish people will go build Palestine, the Jewish State will become a reality—a fact. [39]
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their ...
Sand's explanation of the birth of the "myth" of a Jewish people as a group with a common, ethnic origin has been summarized as follows: "[a]t a certain stage in the 19th century intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people "retrospectively ...
Fire lance is the earliest firearm in the world and one of the earliest gunpowder weapons. [346] [347] 10th century: Fireworks in Song dynasty China: Fireworks first appear in China during the Song dynasty (960–1279), in the early age of gunpowder. Fireworks could be purchased from market vendors; these were made of sticks of bamboo packed ...
Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach and other publications (half Jewish) [21] Bob Kahn, co-invented TCP and IP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Turing Award (2004) [22] [23] Richard M. Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985) [24] [25] John Kemeny, Hungarian-born co-developer of BASIC [26] Leonard Kleinrock, packet ...
Hellenistic technology made significant progress from the 4th century BC, continuing up to and including the Roman period. Some inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks are the following: bronze casting techniques, water organ (hydraulis), and the torsion siege engine. Many of these inventions occurred late in the Hellenistic period ...