Trettioåtta Nobelpristagare tar i ett uppropställning mot det Israelhat som frodas i
akademiska kretsar och då och då sticker
upp sitt tryne.
Initiativtagare är Roger Kornberg och
Steven Weinberg (båda kemi 2006).
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Statement of Nobel Laureates on Academic
BDS Actions against Israeli Academics,
Israeli Academic Institutions and Academic
Centers and Institutes of Research and
Training With Affiliations in Israel
Believing that academic and cultural boycotts,
divestments and sanctions in the academy are:
* antithetical to principles of academic and
scientific freedom,
* antithetical to principles of freedom of
expression and inquiry,
* and may well constitute discrimination
by virtue of national origin,
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We, the undersigned Nobel Laureates,
appeal to students, faculty colleagues
and university officials to defeat and
denounce calls and campaigns for boy-
cotting, divestment and sanctions against
Israeli academics, academic institutions
and university-based centers and institutes
for training and research, affiliated with
Israel.
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Furthermore, we encourage students, faculty
colleagues and university officials to promote
and provide opportunities for civil academic
discourse where parties can engage in the
search for resolution to conflicts and problems
rather than serve as incubators for polemics,
propaganda, incitement and further mis-
understanding and mistrust.
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We, and many like us, have dedicated our-
selves to improving the human condition
by doing the often difficult and elusive work
to understand complex and seemingly un-
solvable phenomena. We believe that the
university should serve as an open, tolerant
and respectful, cooperative and collaborative
community engaged in practices of resolving
complex problems.
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Lawrence Klein University of Pennsylvania Nobel Prize in Economics, 1980
Kenneth Arrow Stanford University Nobel Prize in Economics, 1972
Walter Kohn University of California Santa Barbara Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998
Robert J. Aumann Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nobel Prize in Economics, 2005
Roger D. Kornberg Stanford UniversityNobel Prize in Chemistry, 2006
Mario CapecchiUniversity of UtahNobel Prize in Medicine, 2007
Harold Kroto Florida State University Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996
Aaron Ciechanover Technion Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2004
Finn Kydland University of California Santa Barbara Nobel Prize in Economics, 2004
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji École Normale Supérieure Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997
Leon Lederman Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988
Robert Curl Rice University Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1996
Tony Leggett University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003
Edmond H. Fischer University of Washington Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1992
Robert Lucas, Jr. University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics, 1995
Jerome Friedman MIT Nobel Prize in Physics, 1990
Rudolph A. Marcus California Institute of Technology Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1992
Andre Geim Manchester University Nobel Prize in Physics, 2010
Roger Myerson University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics, 2007
Sheldon Glashow Boston University Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
George A. Olah University of Southern California Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1994
David Gross University of California Santa Barbara Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004
Douglas Osheroff Stanford UniversityNobel Prize in Physics, 1996
James Heckman University of ChicagoNobel Prize in Economics, 2000
Martin L. Perl Stanford UniversityNobel Prize in Physics, 1995
Avram Hershko TechnionNobel Prize in Chemistry, 2004
Andrew V. Schally University of Miami Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1977
Roald Hoffman Cornell University Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981
Richard R. Schrock MIT Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2005
Russell Hulse University of Texas Dallas Nobel Prize in Physics, 1993
Phillip A. Sharp MIT Nobel Prize in or Medicine, 1993
Tim Hunt London Research Institute Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2001
Steven Weinberg University of Texas at Austin Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
Daniel KahnemanPrinceton University Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002
Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize, 1986
Eric Kandel Columbia University Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000