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"""With only 0.2% of the world's population, Jews have been awarded 24% of all Nobel Prizes in medicine and science. American Jews, who number 2% of U.S. citizens, have received 37% of the American awards. This vastly disproportionate number award winners exemplifies Jewish achievement and contributions to knowledge and human well-being."" The Super Achievers examines such topics as: - The rarified world of Nobel Prizes - What factors likely account for Jewish exceptionalism - How America benefited from scientists that fled Nazism - The rise of Israel as a science and technology powerhouse - Lives and discoveries of groundbreaking Jewish laureates - Prizewinners' origins, family and educational backgrounds - Tectonic shifts: Where Jews live now and where they used to live - Barriers to Breakthroughs: The Jewish American experience - Nobel science award recipients worldwide - Women who won Nobel Prizes in science - Are science and religion compatible? You'll also discover... - The first American to receive a Nobel Prize in science-a Jewish Naval officer - The German Jewish inventor of poisonous gas used in extermination camps - Einstein's Nobel Prize was not for the Theory of Relativity - Why Jonas Salk did not receive a Nobel Prize - The 18-year-old Harvard student who was recruited to work on the atomic bomb project - The Nobel physicist who solved the mystery of the Challenger space disaster - The physician whose death was kept a secret so he could win a Nobel Prize - An entrepreneurial laureate whose discoveries led to creating major pharmaceutical companies - The oldest Nobel science prize winner-a ninety-six-year-old in 2018 - The Nobel physicists who had to wait fifty years to have their findings corroborated . . . and much more"

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Ronald Gerstl has an international and multilingual background. He was born in Budapest to a Hungarian mother and a father born in Curacao, Netherlands West Indies. Shortly after his birth, his parents returned to their home in Curacao. He grew up speaking Dutch, Papiamentu (the native tongue), and English. Later he added Spanish and other languages to his linguistic ability. His family moved to Caracas, Venezuela, and he went off to New England for his education. He attended prep school at The Taft School in Connecticut and, thereafter, Harvard where he received his bachelor degree. Later he obtained an MBA from Columbia University. He lived off and on in Caracas for some thirty years. His early career experience was in marketing and advertising with leading consumer products companies. Subsequently, he founded Maxe-con Executive Search Consultants to assist multinational corporations with their executive requirements. He moved to Miami to expand the firm's reach throughout Latin America. He is married to the former Suzanne Lesh from Indianapolis. Their children, Jennifer and Stephanie, and grandchildren live nearby. He has travelled extensively, plays lousy golf, and enjoys reading nonfiction. Ron is a geography whiz who rarely misses questions on related fields on television's Jeopardy.

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