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  2. List of Jewish Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Sign on Nobel Laureates Boulevard in Rishon LeZion saluting Jewish Nobel laureates. 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 ...

  3. List of Jewish scientists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Category:Jewish scientists by country This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  4. Arthur Wynne - Wikipedia

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    He later moved to New York City and worked on the New York World newspaper. He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he ...

  5. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  6. List of Israeli Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people" [1] Literature: 1978 Menachem Begin "for the peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt" [2] Peace: 1994 Shimon Peres "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" [3] Yitzhak Rabin: 2002 Daniel Kahneman

  7. Alfred Mosher Butts - Wikipedia

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    Butts decided to create a game that utilized both chance and skill by combining elements of anagrams and crossword puzzles, a popular pastime of the 1920s. Players draw seven lettered tiles from a pool and then attempt to form words from their letters. A key to the game was Butts's analysis of the English language.

  8. Category:Israeli inventions - Wikipedia

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  9. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Jerome H. Lemelson (1923–1997), U.S. – inventions in the fields in which he patented make possible, wholly or in part, innovations like automated warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive used in Sony's Walkman tape players.