15 Most Famous Atheist Nobel Prize Winners

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11. Francois Jacob

While Jacob was born to a Jewish family and raised with the religion, he did not ascribe to it and soon after his bar mitzvah, he announced that he was an atheist. For his work as a research biologist which saw him discover the effect of E Coli on the enzymes, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1965, along with his colleagues, Andre Lwoff and Monod.

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