List of Jewish scientists

List of Jewish scientists and philosophers:

Main article: List of Jews.

See also lists of Jews by country and

• List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners.
• List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society.

Anthropologists

• David Aberle,
• David Bidney,
• Leonard Bloomfield,
• Franz Boas, father of modern anthropology
• Ruth Bunzel,
• Avram Chomsky,
• Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist, biogeographer
• Aharon Dolgopolsky, linguist
• Emile Durkheim, sociologist and philosopher
• Emile Elkin,
• Meyer Fortes, social anthropologist
• Ernest Gellner, philosopher social anthropologist
• Max Gluckman,
• Erving Goffman, President of ASA 1981
• Alexander Goldenweiser,
• Joseph Greenberg,
• Marvin Harris, cultural materialism
• Jules Henry,
• Melville J. Herskovits,
• Robert Hertz,
• Matthew Holzmann, structural functionalist
• Roman Jakobson, linguist
• Vladimir Jochelson,
• Abram Kardiner, psychiatrist
• Alexander Lesser,
• Claude Levi-Strauss, founder of structual anthropology
• Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher anthropologist
• Oscar Lewis, anthropologist
• Robert Lowie,
• Marcel Mauss, sociologist anthropologist
• Ashley Montagu,
• Siegfried Nadel,
• Morris Opler,
• Paul Oppenheim,
• Raphael Patai,
• Karl Polanyi, economic hystorian anthropologist
• Paul Radin,
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalysis
• Geza Roheim, anthropolgist and psychonalyst
• Miriam Rothschild, entomotologist
• Marshall Sahlins,
• Edward Sapir, linguist and anthropologist
• I. Schapira,
• David Schneider,
• Charles Seligman,
• Harry Shapiro,
• Leslie Spier,
• Melford Spiro,
• Alexander Spoer,
• Franz Steiner, poet and anthropologist
• Morris Swadesh,
• Sol Tax,
• LionelTiger,
• Phillip Tobias,
• Franz Weidenreich,
• Eric Wolf,
• Milford Wolpoff,

Biologists:A-K

See Biology

• Bruce Alberts, American scientists, molecular biology, president of NAS 1993-2005
• Sidney Altman, Canadian scientist, Nobel Prize (1989) Chemistry
• Bruce Ames, American biochemist,
• Ephraim Anderson, British microbiologist,
• Christian Anfinsen, American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) in Chemistry
• Daniel Arnon, Polish-born American biochemist, plant physiologist
• Ruth Arnon, Israel scientist, immunology, Copaxone
• Charlotte Auerbach, German-born British geneticist
• Leopold Auerbach, German neuro-anatomist,
• Gerald Aurbach, American endocrinologist,
• Richard Axel, American biochemist, Nobel Prize (2004),
• Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, pharmocologist, Nobel Prize (1970)
• Howard Bachrach, American biochemist
• David Baltimore, American biochemist, retroviruses, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Robert Barany, Austrian-born Swiss schientist, ear medicine, Nobel Prize (1914)
• Moses Barron, American pathologist, insulin
• Jacqueline Barton, American scientist, chemistry
• Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuela-born American biologist,transplant immunalogy, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Carl Benda, German microbiologist,
• Reinhold Benesch, American biochemist,
• Ruth Benesch, French-born German American biochemist,
• Seymour Benzer, American biophysicist, genetics
• Isaac Berenblum, Israeli oncologist,
• Paul Berg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980) in Chemistry,
• Max Bergmann, German-born American protein chemist,
• Hippolyte Bernheim, French scientist, hypnosis
• Julius Bernstein, German physiologist,
• Solomon Berson, American scientist,
• Alexandre Besredka, Russian-born French serologist,
• Ernest Beutler, American biologist,
• Konrad Bloch, German American biochemist, discovery of cholesterol, Nobel Prize (1964)
• Barry Bloom, American immunologist,
• Floyd Bloom, American neuroscientist,
• Jeffrey Bluestone, American immunologist,
• Baruch Blumberg, American biochemist, vaccine for Hepatitis B, Nobel Prize (1976)
• David Bodian, American neuropathologist,
• Sir Walter Bodmer, British geneticist,
• Eugene Braunwald, Austrian-born American scientist,heart deseases writer Harrison's Principles of
• Sydney Brenner, South African-born British American scientist Nobel Prize (2002)
• Josef Breuer, Austrian hysteria physician,
• Bernard Brodie, British American biologist, biochemical pharmocology, Tylenol
• Michael Brown, American chientist, Nobel Prize (1985),
• Gustav Bucky, German American rengenologist, Bucky's diaphragm with Einstein
• Leo Buerger, Austrian-born American physician, urologist Buerger's decease
• Melvin Calvin, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1961) in Chemestry,
• Donald Caspar, American biophysicist,
• Sir Ernst Chain, German-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1945), penicillin
• Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-born American biochemist,
• Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biochemist, Nobel Prize (2004)
• Irun Cohen, Israeli scientist,
• Sir Philip Cohen, British scientist, diabetes insulin
• Stanley Cohen, American neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)
• Stanley N. Cohen, American genetisist, genetical engineering, insulin
• Edwin Cohn, Austrian-born American scientist, storage and distribution of blood,
• Ferdinand Cohn,German botanist, founder of the science of bacteriology
• Mildred Cohn, American biochemist,
• Julius Cohnheim, German histologist and patologist
• Frank Colton, Polish-born American scientist, oral contraceptive Enovid
• Barry Commoner,American biologist ecologist educator
• Jerome Conn, American endocrinologist,
• Gerty Cori, Czech-born American chientist, Nobel Prize (1947)
• Burrill Crohn, American gastroenterologist,
• William Dameshek, American physician and hameatologist,
• Samuel Danishefsky, American scientist,
• Jared Diamond, American evolutionary biologist biogeographer
• Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American biochemist, first oral contraceptive
• Isaac Djerassi, cancer
• Julius Donath, Austrian immunologist,
• Deborah Doniach, Swiss-born British immunologist,
• Harry Eagle, American microbiologist, cell biology
• Gerald Edelman, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Paul Ehrlich, German immunologist, hematologist, Nobel Prize (1908)
• Arthur Eichengrun, German scientist, claimed discovery of aspirin
• Alfred Einhorn,German scientist, Novocaine
• Herman Eisen, American microbiologist, immunology
• Thomas Eisner, American evolutionary biologist, (Jewish father)
• Gertrude Elion, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1988), zovirax developer
• Walter Elsasser, German-born American scientist,
• Gustav Embden, German biochemist,
• Boris Ephrussi,Russian-born French geneticist,
• Sir Michael Epstein, British biologist, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus
• Joseph Erlanger, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1944)
• Lars Ernster, Hungarian-born Sweedish scientist,
• Stanley Falkow,American microbiologist, immunologist,
• Sidney Farber, American paeditrician,
• Alvin Feinstein, American epidemiologist,
• Marc Feldmann, rheumatoid arthritis, (unconfirmed)
• Gary Felsenfeld,
• Sir Alan Fersht, British scientist, prorein folding, (Jewish father)
• Gerald Fink, American geneticist,
• Richard Finkelstein, American scientist,
• Maxwell Finland, Ukrainian-born American scientist,
• Edmond H. Fischer, China-born Swiss American scientist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
• Bernard Fisher, American ,surgery
• Robert Fleischmann,
• Abraham Flexner, American most important reformer in the history of USA medicine
• Louis Flexner, American scientist,
• Simon Flexner, American scientist,
• Juddah Folkman, American scientist, cancer angiogenesis
• Sidney Fox, American scientist,
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born British American biochemist,
• James Franck, German-born U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1925) in physics
• Rosalind Franklin, British molecular biologist, contributed to discovery of DNA structure,
• Samuel Freedman, Canadian scientist,
• Sigmund Freud, Czech-born Austrian founder of psychoanalysis,
• Jules Freund, Hungarian-born American immunologist,
• Leopold Freund,Austrian scientist,
• Josef Fried, Polish-born German American chemist,
• Jeffrey Friedman, American scientist, leptin
• Charlotte Friend, American oncologist microbiologist
• Irving Fritz, American scientist,
• Joseph Fruton, Polish-born American biochemist
• Casimir Funk, Polish-born American scientist, discovered vitamins and coined the term
• Robert Furchgott, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1998)
• Herbert Gasser,American scientist, Nobel Prize (1944) (Jewish father)
• Benjamin Geiger, cell adhesion researcher
• Richard Gershon, American scientist,
• Walter Gilbert, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1980) in chemistry
• Alfred Gilman, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1994)
• Paul Glansdorff, Belgian molecular biologist
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, German-born American co-founder of deveopmental genetics
• Phil Gold, Canadian scientist, carceoembrionic gen
• Joseph Goldberger, Slovenian-born American scientist, discovered cure for pellagra
• MW Goldblatt, British scientist, discovered prostaglandins with von Euler
• Patricia Goldman-Rakic, American neurobiologist,
• Richard Goldschmidt, German-born American geneticist zoologist
• Avram Goldstein, molecular pharmacologist
• Joseph Goldstein, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1985) in medicine
• Kurt Goldstein,Polish-born German American neuroanatomist clinician, founder of Gestalt Psychology,
• Corey Goodman, American neurobiologist,President CEO pf Renovis
• Stephen Jay Gould, American biologist,
• Michael Greenberg, American neurologist,
• Baroness Susan Greenfield, British neuroscientist, broadcaster, writer
• Paul Greengard, American scientist, Nobel Prize (2000) in medicine
• Ludwik Gross, Polish-born American cancer researcher,
• Robert Gross, American sergeon,
• Alexander Gutman, rheumatologist,
• Ludwig Guttman,German-born British scientist, created Handicapped Olimpics
• Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian-born British Indian researcher, vaccine against cholera and plague therapy
• Viktor Hamburger, Polish-born German American biologist,
• Philip Handler, American scientist, President of NAS
• Sir Henry Harris, British scientist,
• Stephen Harrison, American biophysict,
• William Hassid, Israeli-born Ukrainian American scientist,
• Herbert Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize (1985) in Chemistry
• Felix Haurowitz,Czech-born Turkish American scientist,
• Georges Hayem, French physician, haemotologist
• Leonard Hayflick, American scientist,
• Selig Hecht, Polish-born American biophysisict,
• Michael Heidelberger, American immunochemist,
• Rudolf Heidenhain, German physiologist and histologist,
• Henry Heimlich, American biologist,
• Richard Held,
• Jacob Henle, German anatomist histologist,
• Avram Hershko, Israeli biochemist Nobel Prize (2004) in Chemistry,
• Alfred Hess, American scientist,
• George de Hevesy, Hungarian-born Swedish scientist Nobel Prize (1943) in chemistry
• Basil Hirschowitz, South African American researcher, endoscope 1957
• Jack Hirsh, Australian-born Canadian scientist, trombose
• Bernard Horecker, American biochemist,
• Robert Horvitz, American scientist, Nobel Prize (2002) in medicine
• Arthur Horwich,American scientist,
• Jerome Horwitz, American scientist, Aids drugs
• Alick Isaacs, British virologist, interferon 1957
• Isaac Israeli, Egyptian court physician of two Fatimid caliphs Judaeus
• Francois Jacob, French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Abraham Jacobi, German physician, father of Pediatrics
• Elvin Kabat, American biochemist, founder of immunochemistry
• Herman Kalckar,Danish-born American biochemist,
• Martin Kamen, Canadian-born American biochemist, carbon -14
• Eric Kandel, Austrian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (2000) in medicine
• Adrian Kantrowitz, American surgeon, second in the world heart transplant,
• Henry Kaplan, American scientist,
• Moritz Kaposi, Hungarian-born Austrian dermathologist,
• Jerome Karle, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1985) in chemistry
• Ephraim Katzir, Ukrainian-born Israeli scientist,
• Sir Bernard Katz, German-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1970) in medicine
• Stuart Kauffman, American scientist,
• David Keilin, Russian-born American biologist,
• Seymour Kety, American neuroscientist,
• Marc Kirschner,American cell biologist,
• Richard Klausner, American scientist, Director of NCI 1995
• George Klein, Hungarian-born Swedish scientist, Head of Karolinka Institute
• Edmund Klein, Austrian-born Anmerican scientist, cancer research
• Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel, American scientist,
• Nathan Kline, American scientist,
• Sir Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1982) in chemistry
• Carl Koller, Austrian-born American scientist, ophtalmologist local anaesthesia
• Richard Kolodner, American scientist,
• Henry Koplik, American scientist,
• Arthur Kornberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1959) in chemistry
• Sir Hans Kornberg, British-born American biochemist,
• Roger Kornberg, American scientisrt,
• Daniel Koshland,Jr., American scientist, Director of Lasker Foundation
• Hans Kosterlitz, German-born American scientist, endorphins
• Sir Hans Krebs German-born British biologist, Nobel Prize (1953) in medicine, discovered Krebs Cycle
• Hugo Kronecker, German-born American physiologist,
• Saul Krugman, American scientist,

Biologists: L-Z

• Eric Lander, American mathematician and biologist, Head of Genome Project
• Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1930) in medicine, blood groups ABO
• Robert Langer, American biotechnologist,
• Philip Leder, American molecular biologist,
• Joshua Lederberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1958) in medicine
• Esther Lederberg, American scientist,
• Robert Lefkowitz, American scientist,
• Richard Lerner, American scientist, president of Scripps Research Institute
• Jerome Lettvin, biomedical engineer
• Phoebus Levene, Russian-born American biochemist,
• Giuseppe Levi, Italian-born American histologist,
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine,
• Philip Levine, Rusian-born American immunohematologist, discovered rh factor
• Arnold Levine, American scientist,
• Rachmiel Levine, Polish-born American scientist, diabetes
• Cyrus Levinthal,American scientist, a pioneer of modeling molecules on computers
• Michael Levitt, South Africa-born British American biophysicist, computational biology
• Alexander Levitzki, Israeli scientist,
• Richard Lewontin, American scientist, molecular biology
• David Lipman, American scientist,
• Fritz Lipmann, German-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1953) in medicine
• Harvey Lodish, American scientist,
• Jacques Loeb, German-born American physiologist,
• Otto Loewi, German-born American biochemist and farmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936)
• Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminalist physician, the couse of pellagra
• Irving London, American molecular geneticist
• Salvador Luria,Italian-born American psychologist neurologist Nobel Prize (1969) in medicine
• Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist and neurologist,
• Amatus Lusitanus, Portugal-born Yugoslavian scientist,
• Zacutus Lusitanus,
• Andre Lwoff, French scientist, Nobel Prize (1965) in medicine
• Boris Magasanik, Ukrainian-born American microbiologist geologist
• Moses Maimonides, Spanish-born physician, (Ben-Maimon Moshe Rambam)
• Lynn Margulis, American microbiologist,
• Paul Marks, American cancer researcher,
• Elie Mechnikov, Ukrainian-born Russian French scientist, Nobel Prize (1908) in medicine (Jewish mother)
• Alton Meister, American molecular biologist,
• Matthew Meselson, American molecular biologist,
• Otto Meyerhoff, German-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1922) in medicine
• Leonor Michaelis, German-born Japanish American biochemist,
• Felix Milgrom, American microbilogist,
• Stanley Miller, American biochemist,
• Irving Millman, American scientist, viral hepatitis vaccine
• Cesar Milstein, Argentinian-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1984) in medicine
• Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-born German scientist, diabetes insulin?
• Beatrice Mintz,American molecular biologist,
• Alfred Mirsky, American scientist,
• Salvador Moncada, Honkong-born British biologist, (Jewish mother)
• Julius Morgenroth, German scientist,
• Hermann Muller, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1946) in medicine (Jewish mother)
• Hermann Munk, German physiologist,
• David Nachmansohn, German-born American scientist,
• David Nathan, American scientist, Discovery of structure of DNA
• Daniel Nathans, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1978) in medicine first genetic map of DNA
• Albert Neisser, Polish-born German bacteriologist, gonorrhoea
• Carl Neuberg, German biochemist, biochemistry coined 1903
• Albert Neuberger,
• Elisabeth Neufeld, American molecular biologist,
• Marshall Nirenberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1968) in medicine breaking of genetic code
• Sir Gustav Nossal, Austrian-born Australian biologist, (Jewish father)
• Leslie Orgel, British-born American scientist,
• Garcia Orta, Portugezi-born Indian botanist pharmocologist
• Alwin Pappenheimer, American scientist,
• Yakov Parnas, Moldavian-born Russian biochemist,
• Sheldon Penman, American scientist,
• Max Perutz, Austrian-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1962) in chemistry
• Ernst Pick, Austrian scientist,
• Gregory Pincus, American biologist, inventor of the birth-control pill
• Stanley Plotkin, American virologist,
• Adam Politzer, Hungarian-born Austrian otologist
• Carl Prausnitz, father of clinical allergy
• Karl Pribram, neurosurgeon brain researcher
• Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize (1977) in chemistry
• Stanley Prusiner, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1997) in medicine
• Mark Ptashne, American scientist,
• Theodore Puck, American scientist,
• Juda Quastel, British-born Canadian scientist,
• Efraim Racker, Polish-born Austrian American scientist,
• Henry Rappaport, American canser researcher, hematopothologist
• Sarah Ratner, American biochemist,
• Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born Swiss scientist, Nobel Prize (1950) in medicine vitamin C cortisone adrenal hormones
• Robert Remak, German embryologist neurologyst, nerve cells in heart
• Arnold Rich,
• Alexander Rich, American molecular biologist,
• David Rittenberg, American scientist,
• Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1994) in medicine
• Ivan Roitt, British immunologist,
• Moritz Romberg, German neurologist,
• Harry Rose, American microbiologist,
• Steven Rose, British biologist,
• Saul Roseman, American scientist,
• Robert Rosen, American scientist,
• Milton Rosenau, American epidemiologist,
• Michael Rossmann, German-born British American scientist, (Jewish mother)
• Jesse Roth,
• James Rothman, American scientist,
• Miriam Rothschild, British entomologist,
• Aser Rothstein, Canadian scientist,
• Samuel Ruben, American scientist, discovery of Carbon 14
• Harry Rubin, American molecular biologist,
• Albert Sabin, Polish-born American scientisr, live virus vaccine for polio immunologist
• Florence Sabin, American scientist,
• Bernard Sachs, German-born American neurologist, tay-sachs desease,
• George Sachs, Austrian scientist,
• Julius von Sachs, German founder of experemental plant physiology
• Leo Sachs, German-born British Israeli scientist,
• Oliver Sacks, British neurologist and author,
• Peter Safar, Austrian scientist, Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
• Ruth Sager, American genetisist,
• Jonas Salk, American medical scientist, inventor of polio vaccine
• Stanley Sarnoff, cardiovascular cardiology
• Andrew Schally, Lithuanian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1977) in medicine
• Albert Schatz, American co-discoverer of streptomycin 1943
• Randy Schekman, American scientist,
• Bela Schick, Hungarian-born American physician, Schick Test diphteria
• Joseph Schlessinger, American scientist, co-founder of Sugen Inc Plexxicon
• Stuart Schlossman, American immunologist,
• Rudolf Schoenheimer, German-born American scientist, radioactive traces
• Edward Scolnick, American scientist, president of Merck Research Laboratories
• Michael Sela, Israeli immunologist,
• Michael Servet, discovered circulation of the blood burned (unconfirmed)
• Aaron Shatkin, American biochemist,
• Alan Sher,
• Philip Siekevitz, American scientist,
• Irving Sigal, American research biologist development of IZT
• Louis Siminovitch, Canadian researcher,
• Maxine Singer, American researcher, DNA chip
• Robert Sinsheimer, American molecular biologist, initiator of Human Genome Project 1985
• Solomon Snyder, American neuroscientist, endorphins
• Franz Sondheimer, German-born British chemist,
• Sol Spiegelman, American microbiologist,
• William Stein, American scientist,
• Ralph Steinman, Canadian-born American scientist,
• Gunther Stent, German-born American molecular biologist,
• Curt Stern, German-born American zoologist,
• Lina Stern, Soviet biochemist, inventor of "Soviet penicillin",
• Leo Sternbach, Croatian-born American inventor of librium and valium
• Benedict Stilling, German surgeon,
• Gilbert Stork, Belgian-born American chemist,
• Eduard Strasburger, German plant cytology botanist,
• Jack Strominger, American biochemist immunologist
• Leo Szilard, Hungarian-born German American physicist, nuclear fission reactor
• Howard Temin, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1975) in medicine, retroviruses
• Max Tishler, American scientist, poultry desease, antibiotic synthesizing of B2
• Ludwig Traube, German founder of experemental pathology
• Isidor Traube, German founder of capillary chemistry
• Sidney Udenfriend, American biologist,
• Gabriel Valentin, German-born Swiss physiologist,
• Sir John Vane, British biochemist, Nobel Prize (1982) in medicine (Jewish father)
• Harold Varmus, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1989) in medicine
• Alexander Varshavsky, Russian-born American scientist,
• Bert Vogelstein, American cancer researcher
• Vito Volterra, Italian scientist,
• Serge Voronoff, Russian-born French surgeon, xenotransplant pioneer
• Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1952) in medicine, streptomycin
• George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1967) in medicine
• George Waldbott, German American physician; allergy and fluoride research pioneer,
• Otto Warburg, German scientist, Nobel Prize (1931) (Jewish father)
• August von Wassermann, German researcher, blood-serum test for syphilis
• Carl Weigert, German pathologist,
• Andrew Weil,
• Robert Weinberg, American molecular biologist 1st oncogen
• Ron Weiss, (unconfirmed)
• Paul Weiss,
• Irving Weissman, American scientist, embrionic stem cells, co-founder of SyStemix = o
• Charles Weissmann, Hungarian-born Swiss British molecular biologist,
• Andrew Weit, medicine doctor, writer
• Georges Widal, Algirian-born French physician bacteriologist
• Alexander Wiener, American scientist, co-discovery of factor in rhesus
• Michael Wigler, American scientist, first human oncogen
• Meir Wilchek, Israeli scientist, biophysics
• Richard Willstatter, German scientist, Nobel Prize (1915) in chemistry
• Lord Robert Winston, British fertility expert and broadcaster,
• Oskar Wintersteiner, American scientist, proved insulin = protein
• Maxwell Wintrobe, American hematologist,
• Ernest Witebsky, German-born American immunologist,
• Evelyn Witkin, American scientist,
• Ellie Wollman, French bacteriologist,
• Lewis Wolpert, British developmental biologist and broadcaster,
• Michael Woolfson, British crystallographer computer simulation
• Richard Wurtman, American neuroscientist, "Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc",
• Ernst Wynder, German-born American founder of American Health Foundation
• Rosalyn Yalow, American scientist, Nobel Prize (1977) in medicine
• Charles Yanofsky, American geneticist,
• Anatol Zhabotinsky, Russian-born American biologist,
• Norton Zinder, American microbiologist,
• Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-born French American scientist,
• Lord Solly Zuckerman, South African-born British anatomist, evolusionist,
• Nathan Zuntz, German physiologist,

Chemists

See Chemistry

• Robert Abeles, American chemist,
• Berni Alder, German-born Swiss American scientist, computational physics
• Sidney Altman, Canadian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
• Christian Anfinsen, American chemist Nobel Prize (1972) (converted to Judaism)
• Alfred Bader, Austrian-born Canadian American chemist, founder of Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company (Jewosh father)
• Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist Nobel Prize (1905) (Jewish mother)
• Allen Bard, American electrochemist,
• Jacqueline Barton, American chemist,
• Sidney Benson, American chemist,
• Paul Berg, American chemist Nobel Prize (1980) Head of Human Genome Project
• Robert Bergman,American chemist,
• Ernst Bergmann, German-born Israeli chemist, father of Israeli nuclear program
• John Bernall, Irish-born British chemist, (Jewish father)
• Bruce Berne, American chemist, dynamics and structure of liquids
• Richard Bernstein, American chemist,
• Stephen Berry, American scientist, physical chemestry
• Richard Bersohn, American chemist,
• Jerome Berson, American chemist,
• Solomon Berson,American chemist,
• Jacob Bigeleisen, American chemist, isotope chemistry
• Felix Bloch, Swiss-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1952) in physics NMR
• Herman Bloch,
• Konrad Bloch, German biochemist, Nobel Prize (1964) in medicine
• Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, German-born British Professor of Pharmacology
• John Brauman, American chemist,
• Ronald Breslow, American chemist,
• Leo Brewer, American chemist, high temperature chemistry
• Herbert Charles Brown, British-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (1979) in Chemistry (born Herbert Brovarnik)
• Melvin Calvin, American chemist photosynthesis Nobel Prize (1961)
• Nikodem Caro, Plish-born German chemist, nitrogen fixation
• Heinrich Caro, German chemist, chemical dye disc.
• Sir Ernst Chain, German-born British scientist, Nobel Prize (1945) in medicine for work on penicillin
• Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-born American chemist,
• Stanley Cohen, American neurologist Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine
• Edwin Cohen,
• Morris Cohen, American metallurgist
• Mildred Cohn, American biochemist
• Waldo Cohn, American nuclear scientist
• Gerty Cori, Czech-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947) in medicine
• Stanley Cristol, American chemist,
• Samuel Danishefsky, American chemist
• Norman Davidson, American biochemist
• John Deutch, Belgian-born American scientist, Director of CIA
• Karl Djerassi, Austrian-born American organic chemist, oral contraceptive
• Eduard Donath, Czech chemist,
• Camille Dreyfuss, Swiss-born co-founder of Celanese Corporation
• Henri Dreyfus, Swiss-born co-founder of Celanese Corporation
• Jack Dunitz, British-born Swiss scientist,
• Saul Dushman, Russian-born American chemist,
• Gerald Edelman, American chemist Nobel Prize (1972) in medicine
• Paul Ehrlich, German-born immunolog Nobel Prize (1908) in medicine
• Arthur Eichengrun, German scirentist, claim of aspirin discovery
• Kenneth Eisenthal, American scientist, ultrafast lazers
• Ernest Eliel, German-born American chemist,
• Gertrude Elion, American biochemist and pharmocologist, Nobel Price (1988) in medicine zovirax
• Gustav Embden, German chemist
• Lars Ernster, Hungarian-born Swiss biochemist,
• Kasimir Fajans, Polish-born German American chemist, isotopes protactinium
• Fritz Feigl, Austrian-born Brazilian chemist, analitical chemestry
• Sir Alan Fersht,British chemist, biological chemestry
• Edmond H. Fischer, China-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
• Michael Fisher, British American chemist,
• Marshall Fixman, American chemist,
• Adolph Frank, German-born chemist, discovered use of potash created the potash industry
• Rosalind Franklin, British scientist, structual virology DNA
• Josef Fried, Polish-born German American chemist,
• Gerhart Friedlander, German-born American nuclear chemist
• Alexander Frumkin, Moldavian-born Russian chemist, father of Russian electrochemistry
• Casimir Funk, Polish-born American scientist, discovery of vitamins
• Robert Furchgott, American pharmacologist biochemist, Nobel Prize (1998) in medicine
• Elena Galpern, Russian scientist,
• Walter Gilbert, American chemist Nobel Prize (1980)
• Alfred Gilman, American chemist Nobel Prize (1994) medicine
• Henry Gilman, American organometallic chemist,
• Paul Glansdorff, Belgian molecular biologist
• Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, owner of Th.Goldschmidt AG
• Victor Goldschmidt, Sweeden-born Norvegian American chemist, founder of modern geochemestry
• Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist, free radicals
• Herbert Gutowsky, American chemist,
• Fritz Haber, Polish-born German chemist, amonia Nobel Prize (1918)
• Norman Hackerman, American chemist, model of transistor
• Jack Halpern, Polish-born Canadian American chemist,
• Philip Handler, American biochemicist President of NAS 1969-1981
• Milton Harris, American chemist, founder and president of Shearwater Corporation
• William Hassid, Israeli-born Ukrainian American chemist,
• Herbert Hauptman, American chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Felix Haurowitz,Czech-born Turkish American chemist,
• Alan Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize (2000),
• Michael Heidelberger, American scientist, immunochemistry
• Sir Ian Heilbron, British scientist,
• Walter Heitler,German-born Irish Swiss chemist,
• George de Hevesy, Hungarian-born Swedish chemist Nobel Prize (1943)
• Sir Peter Hirsch, British scientist, material science
• Joseph Hirschfelder, American chemist,
• Ralph Hirschmann, German-born American chemist,
• Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born American chemist electronic structures Nobel Prize (1981)
• Pierre Hohenberg, American physicist,
• Joshua Jortner,Polish-born Israeli chemist,
• Henri Kagan, French chemist,
• Martin Kamen, Canadian-born American biochemist carbon -14
• Jerome Karle American chemist, Nobel Prize (1985),
• Martin Karplus, Austian-born American chemist
• Ephraim Katzir, Ukrainian-born Israeli scientist,
• Morris Kharasch, Ukrainian-born American chemist,
• William Klemperer, American chemist,
• Sir Aaron Klug, Lithuanain-born South African British chemist Nobel Prize (1982)
• Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1998),
• Izaak Kolthoff,Dutch-born American chemist, father of modern analytical chemestry
• Arthur Kornberg, American chemist Nobel Prize (1959) in medicine
• Roger Kornberg,American chemist,
• Sir Hans Kornberg, British-born American biochemist
• Ronnie Kosloff,American-born Israeli chemist
• Sir Hans Krebs, German-born English biologist, discovered Krebs Cycle Noble Prize (1953)
• Sir Harold Kroto, British chemist, Nobel Prize (1996), (Jewish father)
• Albert Ladenburg, German chemist,
• Ralph Landau, American chemist, founder of Scientific Design Incorporated
• Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (1930) in medicine discovered major blood groups ABO
• Robert Langer, American scientist, biotechnology
• Richard Lerner, American scientist, President of Scripps Research Institute
• Phoebus Levene, Russian-born American chemist, nuclear acid pioneer
• Veniamin Levich,Ukrainian-born Israeli American chemist, electrochemistry
• Raphael Levine, Egypt-born Israeli scientist, chemical physicist
• Fritz Lipmann, German-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1953) medicine
• Stephen Lippard, American inorganic chemist,
• Morris Loeb, American physical chemist,
• Otto Loewi, German-born biochemist and farmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936) in medicine
• Fritz London, Polish-born German American chemist,
• Willy Marckwald, German chemist, polonium
• Rudolph Marcus, Canadian-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1992)
• Jacob Marinsky, American scientist, co-discovered promethium
• Herman Mark, Austrian-born German American scientist, father of polymer science, (Jewish father)
• Tobin Marks, American scientist, founder of nonequilibrium thermodinamics,
• Peter Mazur, Austrian-born Netherlands Swiss chemist, ,
• Lise Meitner, Austrian-born German Swiss scientist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
• Raphael Meldola, British chemist,
• Victor Meyer, German chemist,
• Otto Meyerhoff, Germanian-born U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize (1922) in medicine
• Leonor Michaelis, German-born U.S. biochemist,
• Stanley Miller, chemist,
• Kurt Mislow, chemist, stereochemistry
• Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize (1906), artificle diamond, (Jewish mother)
• Salvador Moncada, Hongkong-born British chemist, (Jewish mother)
• Alfred Mond, British chemist, son of Ludwig
• Ludwig Mond, chemist & industrialist,
• Daniel Nathans, American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1978) in medicine, first genetic map of DNA
• Carl Neuberg, German biochemist, biochemistry coined 1903
• Marshall Nirenberg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1968) medicine, breaking of genetic code
• George Olah, Hungarian-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1994)
• Irwin Oppenheim, American chemist,
• Milton Orchin, American chemist,
• Leslie Orgel, British-born American scientist,
• Guy Ourisson, French chemist, President of the Academy of Sciences of France, (Jewish father)
• Friedrich Paneth, Austrian-born British German chemist,
• Morton Panish, American physical chemist, lasers
• Max Perutz, Austrian-born British chemist Nobel Prize (1962)
• Alexander Pines,Zimbabwian-born American scientist, MRI NMR
• Herman Pines, Polish-born American chemist,
• John Polanyi, Germanian-born Canadian chemist Nobel Prize (1986), (Jewish father)
• Michael Polanyi,Hungarian-born German British chemist and philosopher, polymath,
• Ilya Prigogine, Rissian-born Belgian chemist Nobel Prize (1977)
• Benton Rabinovitch, American scientist,
• Ralph Raphael, British scientist,
• Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born Swiss scientist, Nobel Prize (1950) in medicine,
• Stuart Rice, American physical chemist,
• Irwin Rose, American chemist Nobel Prize (2004)
• John Ross, Austrian-born American physical chemist
• Michael Rossmann, German-born British biochemist, biology (Jewish mother)
• Klaus Ruedenberg, German-born American physicist and chemist,
• Otto Sackur, German chemist,
• Harold Scheraga, American scientist, protein folding
• Paul Scheuer, German-born American scientist, marine chemestry
• Hermann Schlesinger, American chemist, father of American boron chemistry
• Louis Schmerling, Universal Oil Products Company
• Rudolf Schoenheimer, German-born American chemist,
• Dan Shechtman, Israeli scientist, quasicrystals
• Gabor Somorjai, Hungarian-born, American father of modern surface chemistry,
• Franz Sondheimer, German-born British organic chemist,
• William Stein, American chemist Nobel Prize (1972)
• Leo Sternbach, Croatian-born American chemist, invevtion of Valium and Librium F.Hoffmann-La Roche
• Gilbert Stork, Belgian-born American organic chemist,
• Michael Szwarc, Polish-born Israeli American chemist, polymer chemestry
• Julius Tafel, elecrochemical kinetics worked with Emil Fisher
• David Talmud,
• Max Tishler, American biochemist, poultry desease antibiotic sythesizing of B2
• Isidor Traube, German chemist,
• Moritz Traube, German chemist,
• Barry Trost, American chemist,
• Mikhail Usanovich, Kazachstan-born Russian chemist,
• Sir John Vane, British biochemist, Nobel Prize (1982) in medicine (Jewish father)
• George Wald, American biochemist Nobel Prize (1967) in medicine
• Otto Wallach, German chemist Nobel Prize (1910)
• Otto Warburg, German biochemist Nobel Prize (1931) in medicine (Jewish father)
• Charles Weissmann, Hungarian-born Swiss British molecular biologist
• Chaim Weizmann, Belarussian-born British Israeli chemist, synthetic acetone, President of Israel,
• Frank Westheimer, American chemist,
• Benjamin Widom, American scientist, statistical mechanics of fluids,
• Richard Willstatter, German-born Switzerland chemist Nobel Prize (1915)
• Saul Winstein, Canadian-born American chemist,
• Oskar Wintersteiner, American scientist, proved insulin = protein
• Richard Wolfenstein, German chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide
• Michael Woolfson, crystallographer computer simulation
• Rosalyn Yalow, American biochemist Nobel Prize (1977) medicine
• Richard Zare, American scientist,
• Anatol Zhabotinsky, Russian-born American chemist,

Cognitive scientists

See Cognitive science

• Evan Balaban, U.S. biologist, neuroscientist
• Aaron T. Beck, U.S. cognitive-semantic therapist
• Ursula Bellugi, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
• Leonard Bloomfield, U.S. linguist
• Franz Boas, linguistic anthropologist
• Albert S. Bregman, Canadian cognitive scientist
• Noam Chomsky, U.S. psycholinguist
• Gerald Edelman, U.S. Neuroscientist
• Steven Engel, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
• Martha Farah, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
• Norman Geschwind, neuroscientist
• Allison Gopnik, Canadian-born U.S. cognitive scientist
• Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist
• Richard Ivry, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
• Ray Jackendoff, U.S. cognitive scientist
• Daniel Kahneman, Israeli cognitive psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in economics
• Kurt Koffka, German cognitive theorist and psychologist
• Michael Kubovy, U.S. cognitive scientist
• George Lakoff, U.S. cognitive scientist
• Eric H Lenneberg, U.S. Neurobiologist
• Jerome Y Lettvin, U.S. cognitive-Neuroscientist
• Daniel Levitin, U.S. cognitive scientist/neuroscientist
• Kurt Lewin, U.S. cognitive theorist and psychologist
• Richard Lewontin, biologist
• Gary Marcus, U.S. cognitive scientist
• Carolyn Mervis, U.S. cognitive psychologist, developmental neuroscientist
• Mortimer Mishkin, neuroscientist
• Jeffrey Mogil, Canadian neurogeneticist
• Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
• David Navon, Israeli cognitive scientist
• Ulric Neisser, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• Isabelle Peretz, Belgian-born cognitive neuroscientist
• Steven Pinker, Canadian cognitive evolutionary psychologist
• Michael Posner, U.S. cognitive scientist, cognitive neuroscientist
• Karl Pribram, U.S. cognitive scientist
• Oliver Sacks, British-U.S. neurologist and author
• Ivan Sag, U.S. linguist
• Edward Sapir, U.S. Linguistic Anthropologist
• Herbert Simon, U.S. Cognitive Psychologist
• Dan Slobin, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• John Sloboda, British cognitive psychologist (Jewish mother)
• Paula Tallal, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
• Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive psychologist
• Barbara Tversky, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• Terry Winograd, U.S. cognitive scientist

Computer scientists

See Computer science

• Harold Abelson, American scientist, artifical intelligence,
• Samson Abramsky, British professor of Computer science
• Norman Abramson,American computer scientists, Alohanet
• Leonard Adleman, American scientist, DNA computing
• Berni Alder, German-born Swiss American scientist, computational physics
• Noga Alon, Israeli computer scientist,
• Saul Amarel, Greece-born Israeli American computer scientist, Artifical Intelligence
• Kenneth Appel, four color theorem
• Michael Arbib, Ukrainian-born Australian American scientist,
• Paul Baran, Belarusian-born American co-inventor of Internet packet switching
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Israeli-born American scientist, machine translation
• Richard Bellman, American mathematician, dynamic programming, (three fourth Jewish)
• Paul Benioff, American scientist, guantum computing
• Toby Berger,
• Hans Berliner, Artifical Intelligence
• Daniel Bernstein, cryptologist (unconfirmed)
• Eli Biham, Israeli cryptographer,
• Max Black, Azerbaijani-born British American linquistic philosopher,
• Manuel Blum, Venezuelan-born American scientist, computational complexity theory
• Lenore Blum, American computer scientist,
• Dan Bricklin, American inventor of electronic spredsheet program, co-founder of VisiCalc
• Sergey Brin, Russian-born American co-founder of Google search engine
• Julian Bussgang, Polish-born American scientist, president of Signatron
• Georg Cantor, Russian-born German mathematician, father of set theory
• Gregory Chaitin, American mathematician, algorithmic information theory,
• Jule Charney, American meteorologist, father of numeric meteorology
• Avram Chomsky, American cognitive psychologist and linguist,
• Alexandre Chorin, Polish-born Israeli American mathematician
• Fred Cohen, created first computer virus
• Martin Cooper, American computer enterprenuar co-founder and CEO "Arraycomm"
• George Dantzig, American scientist,invented linear programming, simplex method
• Edward David,
• Martin Davis, American scientist,
• David Deutsch, Israeli-born British physicist, quantum computing
• Roland Dobrushin, Russian-born American scientist,
• Hubert Dreyfus,American philosopher, Artifical Intelligence,
• Stuart Dreyfus, American scientist, brother of Hubert
• Samuel Eilenberg, Polish-born American mathematician, algebric topology
• Peter Elias, American computer scientist, convolutional codes
• Joel Engel, American scientist, father of cellular phone
• Paul Erdos, Hungarian-born American Israeli mathematician
• Gerald Estrin,
• Robert Fano, Italian-born American convolutional codes
• Solomon Feferman, American mathematician, mathematical logic
• Uriel Feige,
• Edward Feigenbaum, American scientist, artifical intelligence
• Amiel Feinstein, information theory
• Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1965), guantum computing
• Justice Frankel, American scientist, creator of Winamp
• Robert Frankston, American inventor of electronic spreadsheet program co-founder of VisiCalc
• Edward Fredkin, American scientist, Artifical Intelligence
• Richard Frenkiel, American scientist, father of cellular phone
• William Friedman, Moldavian-born American cryptologist,
• Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born German British physicist, Nobel Prize (1971), hologram
• Eugene Garfield, library & information scientist,
• David Gelernter AMERICAN computer scientist, Artifical Intelligence, parallel computation
• Adele Goldberg,American linquist, President of ACM Neometron
• Oded Goldreich, Israeli cryptographer
• Adele Goldstine, British developer of ENIAC
• Herman Goldstine, American scientist, developer of ENIAC
• Shafrira Goldwasser, American cryptographer
• Solomon Golomb,American inventor of polyominoes
• Irving Good, British-born American cryptographer, developer of Colossus
• Stephen Grossberg, American computer scientist,
• Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born American co-founder and chairman of Intel corporation
• Frank Heart, father of the ARPANET
• Allan Hellman, American cryptologist,
• Martin Hellman, American cryptologist
• Leon Henkin, American logician,
• Andy Herzfeld, programmer of Mac OS
• Douglas Hofstadter, American computer scientist, artifical intelligence, (Jewish mother)
• Irwin Jacobs, American scientist and businessman, co-founder of Qualcomm,
• Fred Jelinek, American scientist, automatic speech recognition,
• Amos Joel, Jr.,American inventor of long distance call phone
• William Kahan, Canadian scientist,
• Robert Kahn, American co-inventor of Internet TCP/IP
• Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician, Nobel Prize (1975) in Economics, linear programming,
• Mitchell Kapor, American developer of spreed sheet, founder of Lotus Development Corp Lotus1-2-3
• Richard Karp, American scientist, computational complexity theory
• Phil Katz, creator of PKZip
• John Kemeny, Hungarian-born American co inventor Of Basic
• Alexander Khinchin, Belarusian-born Russian mathematician,
• Leonard Kleinrock, American co-inventor of Internet, chairman anf founder of Nomadix
• Zvi Kohavi, Israeli computer scientist,
• Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician,
• Joseph Kruskal, American scientist, president of Psychometric Society,
• Solomon Kullback, American cryptologist,
• Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor, Reading Machine
• Harold Kushner, American mathematician,
• Leslie Lamport, American computer scientist, developer of LaTex
• Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian-born American Irish computer scientist,
• Rolf Landauer, German-born American physicist, reversable computational theory
• Jaron Lanier, American computer scientist, virtual reality,
• Peter Lax, Hungarian-born American mathematician, Abel Prize (2005),
• Abraham Lempel,Polish-born Israeli scientist, LZW compression
• Douglas Lenat, American computer scientist, CEO of Cycorp, Inc
• Max Levchin, Ukrainian-born American computer scientist, co-founder of PayPol
• Leonid Levin, Ukrainian-born Russian American compputer scientist, computational complexity theory
• Barbara Liskov,
• Michel Loeve, Israeli-born French American computer scientist,
• Herman Lukoff, American computer svientist,
• Leo Marks, British cryptologist,
• Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French American mathematician, fractal geometry
• Mitch Marcus, American computer scientist, IL
• Solomon Marcus, Romanian-born computer scientist,
• Norman Margolis,
• John McCarthy, American computer scientist, Inventor of "Lisp", artifical intelligence (Jewish mother)
• Marvin Minsky, American scientist, father of artifical intelligence, neural nets,
• Joel Moses, Israeli-born American computer scientist,
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-born German American mathematician, game theory, linear programming, father of computer sciece
• Maxwell Newman,British scientist, co-developer of Colossus - first all-electronic digital programmable computer, (Jewish mfather),
• Seymour Papert,South African-born American mathematician, artifical intelligence, Logo
• David Parnas, American scientist, software engineering
• Judea Pearl, Israeli-born American scientist, Artifical Intelligence,
• Kenneth Perlin, Perlin Noise Turbulence
• Alan Perlis, American scientist,
• Charles Peskin, mathematics and neural science
• Rozsa Peter, Hungarian scientist,
• Mark Pinsker, Russian-born scientist,
• Gordon Plotkin, British scientist,
• Amir Pnueli, Israeli American computer scientist,
• Henry Pollak,
• Emil Post, Polish-born American mathematician, Post machine
• Moritz Presburger, Polish-born scientist
• William Press, American scientist,
• Hilary Putnam, American scientist,
• Michael O. Rabin, Polish-born Israeli American computer scientist,
• Lawrence Rabiner, American scientist, digital signal processing
• Charles Rackoff, American computer scientist,
• Jef Raskin, American interface designer of Apple Macintosh
• Barney Reiffen, convolutional codes
• Alfred Renyi, Hungarian mathematician,
• Frank Rosenblatt, perceptrons,
• Azriel Rosenfeld, American scientist, pattern recognition
• Grzegorz Rozenberg, Polish-born Dutch American scientist, molecular computing
• Jonathan Sachs, chief programmer of Lotus co f 1982
• Shmuel Safra,
• Jean E. Sammet,American scientist, President of ASM 1974-76
• Bruce Schneier, American security expert, cryptographer
• Jacob Schwartz, a major pioneer in parallel computing
• Mischa Schwartz,
• Adi Shamir, Israeli cryptographer,
• Nir Shavit, Israeli scientist,
• Dame Stephani Shirley, German-born British computer scientist, founder of Xansa plc
• Herbert Simon, American father of Artifical Intelligence, Nobel Prize (1978) in Economics (not Jewish parental grandmother)
• Marvin Simon, American scientist,
• Abraham Sinkov, American cryptologist,
• Michael Sipser, complexity theory
• Daniel Sleator, splay tree data structure
• David Slepian, American scientist Bell Laboratories
• Gustave Solomon, American mathematician, error correction
• Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic probiability
• Robert Solovay,American mathematician,
• Eduardo Sontag,
• Richard Stallman, American scientist, founder of GNUproject, Free Software progammer of Emacs
• Irvin Stiglitz, American scientist,
• Steven Strogatz, American scientist, chaos theory
• Gerald Sussman,American scientist, artifical intelligence , scheme,
• Peter Swerling, American radar theoretican,
• Leo Szilard, Hungarian-born German American physicist,nuclear fission reactor
• Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American mathematician, logician
• Larry Tesler, American scientist, creator of Gypsy
• Boris Trakhtenbrot, Moldavian-born Russian Israeli scientist, parallel computing
• Joseph Traub, American scientist,
• Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-born American mathematician, Monte Carlo method
• Jeffrey Ullman, American scientists, Compilers
• Leslie Valiant, British American computer scientist, parallel computation
• Andrew Viterbi,Italian-born American scientist, co-founder of Qualcomm
• Abraham Wald, Romanian-born Austrian American scientist,
• Peter Weinberger, AWK
• Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born American scientist, AI ElIZA
• Norbert Wiener, American mathematical logician and cybernetician
• Jerome Wiesner, American scientist, president of MIT
• Stephen Wiesner, quantum criptography
• Avi Wigderson, American Israeli scientist,
• Dave Winer, American scientist, content management XML-RPC
• Shmuel Winograd, American scientist,
• Terry Winograd, American scientist, SHRDLU
• Jack Wolf, American scientist,
• Jacob Wolfowitz, Polish-born American scientist, information theory
• Stephen Wolfram, British scientist, president and CEO pf Wolfram Research Inc
• Aaron Wyner, American scientist,
• Howard Yudkin,
• Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbaijani-born Iranian American scientist, (Jewish mother)
• Jacob Ziv, Israeli American scientist,

Economists

• Albert Aftalion,
• George Akerlof, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economics (1901) (Jewish mother)
• Kenneth Arrow, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economics (1972)
• Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli U.S. mathematician, Nobel Prize (2005) in economics, theory of games
• Robert Axelrod,
• Lord Thomas Balogh, Minister of State for Energy
• Paul Alexander Baran,
• Lord Peter Bauer,
• Otto Bauer, secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• William Baumol,
• Gary Becker, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economics (1992)
• Abram Bergson,
• Ben Bernanke, American economist, nominee to Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve
• Eduard Bernstein,
• Mark Blaug,
• Alan Blinder, vice chairman of FRB 1994
• Martin Bronfenbrenner,
• Arthur Burns, Chairman of Federal Reserve 70-78
• George Dantzig, linear programming
• Harold Demsetz,
• Peter Diamond,
• Aaron Director, founder of the field of Low and Economics
• Evsey Domar,
• Joseph Dorfman, historian of economic thought
• Robert Dorfman,
• Otto Eckstein,
• Robert Eisner,
• Stanley Engerman,
• Abraham Epstein, sociologist and economist concened with problems of the eldery
• Richard Epstein, lawer
• Solomon Fabricant,
• Martin Feldstein, president of National Beureu of Economic Research
• William Fellner,
• Stanley Fischer, first deputy managing Director IMF
• Franklin Fisher,
• Robert Fogel, U.S. Economist Nobel Prize of Economy (1993)
• Jacob Frenkel,
• Milton Friedman, U.S. Economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1976)
• Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian
• Arthur Goldberger, econometrics statistics
• Emmanuel Goldenweiser, supervised the details of Federal Reserves Board
• Alan Greenspan, Chairman of Federal Reserve Board 1988-
• Zvi Griliches, statistician
• Sanford Grossman, economics of information
• Frank Hahn,
• John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1994) game theorist
• Jerry Hausman, econometrist
• Eli Heckscher, economist and historian
• Robert Heilbroner,
• Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance of Germany 1923
• Albert Hirschman,
• Jack Hirshleifer,
• Hendrick Houthakker,
• Leonid Hurwicz,
• Alfred Kahn, charman of Civil Aueronautics Board
• Lord Richard Kahn,
• Daniel Kahneman, Israel U.S. psychologist Nobel Prize in Economy (1902)
• Lord Nicholas Kaldor,
• Michal Kalecki,
• Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician Nobel Prize in Economy (1975) linear programming
• Leon Keyserling, Truman's Chief Economic Adviser
• Israel Kirzner,
• Lawrence Klein, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1980)
• David Kreps,
• Paul Krugman,
• Robert Kuttner, founder co-editor of The American Prospect
• Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1971) in Economy
• Ludwig Lachmann,
• David Landes,
• Emil Lederer, Austrian-born economist, (Jewish father)
• Robert Lekachman,
• Wassily Leontief, Russian-born U.S. economist Nobel Prize in economy (1973) (Jewish mother)
• Abba Lerner,
• Steven Levitt,
• Adolph Lowe,
• Fritz Machlup,
• Burton Malkiel,
• Ernest Mandel, marxist economist
• Charles Manski,
• Harry Markowitz, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economics (1990)
• Jacob Marschak,
• Karl Marx, Founder of socialism
• Allan Meltzer,
• Robert Merton, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economics (1997)(Jewish father)
• Eugene Meyer, Federal Reserve = ch 1930-33
• Merton Miller, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in economics (1990)
• Jacob Mincer,
• Ludwig von Mises, economist
• Franco Modigliani, Italian-born U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1985)
• Oscar Morgenstern, game theorist
• Marc Nerlove, econometrics
• John von Neumann, linear programming games theory
• Arthur Okun,
• Don Patinkin,
• Joseph Pechman, tax
• Sam Peltzman,
• Karl Polanyi, economic historian
• Michael Polanyi,
• Richard Posner, lawer judge
• Bernard van Praag, economist
• Karl Pribram, neuroscientist
• Matthew Rabin,
• Roy Radner,
• Anatol Rapoport, game theorist
• David Ricardo, founder of political economy
• Paul Rosenstein-Rodan,
• Walt Rostow, economic historian
• Murray Rothbard, founder of liberatarian party
• Jacques Rueff,
• Jeffrey Sachs, economic shock therapy
• Paul Samuelson, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1970)
• Herbert Scarf,
• Myron Scholes, Canadian-born U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1997)
• Anna Schwartz,
• Edwin Seligman,
• Reinhard Selten, German Economist Nobel Prize in Economy (1994) (Jewish father)
• Andrei Shleifer,
• Martin Shubik,
• Bernard Siegan, lawer
• Herbert Simon, U.S. scientist father of AI Nobel Prize in Economy (1978) (not Jewish parental grandmother)
• Julian Simon, U.S.
• Robert Solow,
• Hugo Sonnenschein, president of Universiry of Chicago 1993-00
• Piero Sraffa,
• Herbert Stein,
• Joseph Stiglitz, U.S. economist Nobel Prize in Economy (2001)
• Lawrence Summers, Secretary of Treasury 1999- under Clinton
• Frank Taussig, U.S. economist, (Jewish father)
• Amos Tversky,
• Jacob Viner,
• Paul Volcker, Chairman of Federal Reserve 1979-87
• Abraham Wald, statistician
• Henry Wallich, Fed Governor
• Paul Warburg, Founder of Federal Reserve Banking System
• Murray Weidenbaum, Council of Economic Advisers = ch Reagan 1983-89
• Harry White, founder of International Monetary Fund & World nk
• James Wolfensohn, President of World Bank
• Jacob Wolfowitz,

Linguists

• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, machine translation
• Jacob Barth,
• Hans Bauer,
• Eliezer Ben Yehuda, revival of Hebrew
• Theodor Benfey,
• Walter Benjamin, philosopher critic journalist
• Emile Benveniste, linguist
• Basil Bernstein,
• Bernard Bloch,
• Jules Bloch,
• Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
• Maurice Bloomfield,
• Franz Boas, father of modern anthropology
• Jerome Bruner, cognitive psychology
• Avram Chomsky, Cognitive psychology linquist
• Marcel Cohen, semitic language studies
• Jacques Derrida, philosopher
• Aharon Dolgopolsky, linguist
• Joshua Fishman,
• Jerry Fodor,
• Victoria Fromkin,
• Saadiah Gaon, Babylon
• Norman Geschwind,
• Lila Gleitman,
• Erving Goffman, sociologist ASA = pr 1981-82
• Joseph Greenberg, language classification
• Morris Halle,
• Zellig Harris, linquist
• Edmund Husserl, phounder of phenomenology
• Abraham Ibn Ezra, poet and philosopher
• Ray Jackendoff,
• Roman Jakobson, linquist
• Henry Kahane,
• David Kimhi,
• Saul Kripke, philosopher logician
• William Labov,
• George Lakoff,
• Claude Levi-Strauss, founder of structual anthropology
• Elijah Levita,
• Yakov Malkiel,
• Fritz Mauthner,
• Bernat Munkacsi,
• Steven Pinker,
• Hans Polotsky,
• Hilary Putnam,
• Paul Radin, anthropologist
• Peter Reich,
• Hans Reichenbach,
• Simon Reinisch,
• Edward Sapir, linguist and anthropologist
• Alfred Schutz, phenomenology
• Leo Spitzer,
• Heymann Steinthal,
• Morris Swadesh,
• Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
• Alfred Tarski, mathematician
• Edward Ullendorff, semitic language studies
• Lev Vygotsky, Cognitive Psychology
• Friedrich Waismann,
• Max Weinreich, History of the Yiddish Language
• Uriel Weinreich,
• Naphtali Wessely, poet
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
• Ludvig Zamenhof, Inventor of Esperanto

Mathematicians:A-N

See Mathematics

• Milton Abramowitz
• Abraham Manie Adelstein, British statistican,
• Naum Akhiezer, Belarussian-born Ukrainian Russian mathematician
• Abraham Albert, American mathematician
• Kenneth Appel, four-colour theorem
• Vladimir Arnold, Ukrainian-born Russian American mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Siegfried Aronhold, Polish-born German mathematician
• Cesare Arzela, Italian mathematician
• Giulio Ascoli, Italian mathematician
• Robert J. Aumann, German-born Israeli American mathematician, Nobel Prize (2005) in Economics
• Reinhold Baer, German-born British American mathematician
• Hyman Bass, American mathematician, President of AMS 2001-
• Richard Bellman, American mathematician) dynamic programming (one not Jewish grandparent - parental])
• Stefan Bergman,Polish-born German American mathematician
• Paul Bernays, British-born German Swiss mathematician
• Sergei Bernstein, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician
• Felix Bernstein, German-born American German mathematician
• Lipman Bers, Latvian-born Czech American mathematician, President of AMS 1975-77
• Abram Besicovitch, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
• Max Black, Azerbaijani-born British American mathematician
• Spencer Bloch,
• Salomon Bochner, Polish-born German American mathematician, harmonic analysis
• Harald Bohr, Denish mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Carl Borchardt,German mathematician
• Raoul Bott, Hungarian-born American mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Richard Brauer, German-born American mathematician, model representation theory
• Haïm Brezis, French mathematician, Nonlinear analysis
• [[Jacob Bronowski}]], British mathematician & broadcaster,
• Felix Browder,American mathematician, President of AMS 99-01 nolinear functional analysis (Jewish mother)
• William Browder, American mathematician, President of AMS (Jewish mother)
• Eugenio Calabi, Italian mathematician, string theory
• Georg Cantor, Russian-born, German mathematicain, of set theory
• Moritz Cantor, German mathematician
• Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician
• Gregory Chaitin, American mathematician
• Herman Chernoff, American mathematician
• Paul Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal (1966)
• Ronald Coifman, co-founder of FMA&F
• Richard Courant,Polish-born German American mathematcian,
• Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician
• George Dantzig, American mathematician, linear programming simpex method
• Martin Davis, American computer scientist
• Philip Dawid, British statistician
• Max Dehn, German-born American mathematician, topology
• Persi Diaconis, American mathematician, probability statistics combinotorics
• Roland Dobrushin, Russian-born American mathematician
• Dominius of Larissa, Syrian-born mathematician
• Joseph Doob, American mathematician
• Jessie Douglas, American mathematician, Fields Medal (1936)
• Vladimir Drinfeld, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician, Fiels Medal (1990)
• Arye Dvoretzky, Russian-born Israeli mathematician,
• Eugene Dynkin, Russian-born American nathematician
• Leon Ehrenpreis, American mathematician
• Samuel Eilenberg, Polish-born American mathematician, topology
• Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss American physicist
• Ferdinand Eisenstein, German -mathematician, algebra
• Noam Elkies, American-born Israeli American mathematician
• Federigo Enriques, Italian mathematician
• Arthur Erdelyi, Hungarian-born Czech British mathematician
• Paul Erdos, Hungarian-born American Israeli mathematician
• Gino Fano, Italian-born Swiss mathematician
• Herbert Federer,Austrian-born American mathematician
• Charles Fefferman, American mathematician, Fields Medal (1978)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematician, chaos theorist
• Walter Feit, Austrian-born American mathematician
• Lipot Fejer, Hungarian mathematician
• Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Hungarian Israeli mathematician
• William Feller,Croatian-born German American mathematician, probability theory
• John Fox, British statistician,
• Adolf Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician
• Philipp Frank, Austrian-born American mathematician
• Michael Freedman, American mathematician, Fields Medal (1986), poincare conjecture, (Jewish father)
• Hans Freudenthal, German-born Netherlands mathematician
• Avner Friedman,Israeli-born American mathematician
• Guido Fubini, Italian mathematician
• Lazarus Fuchs, Polish-born German mathematician
• Hillel Furstenberg, German-born American Israeli mathematician
• David Gale, American mathematician
• Boris Galerkin, Belarussian-born Russian mathematician)
• Israil Gelfand, Ukrainian-born Russian American mathematician,
• Alexandr Gelfond, Russian mathematician
• Israel Gohberg, Kirgisian-born Russian Israeli mathematician
• Solomon Golomb, polyominoes,
• Benjanin Gompertz, British mathematician,
• Paul Gordan, Polisg-born German mathematician
• Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician
• Mikhael Gromov, Russian-born French American mathematician, differential geometry
• Benedict Gross, American mathematician
• Marcel Grossmann, Hungarian-born Swiss mathematician, the General Theory of Relativity
• Alexander Grothendieck, German-born French mathematician, Fields Medal (1966), (Jewish father)
• Alfréd Haar, Hungarian mathematician
• Steven Haberman, British scientist, actuarial science,
• Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, functional analysis
• Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician
• Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician,
• Georges-Henri Halphen, French mathematician,
• Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician, topology set theory
• Hans Heilbronn,German-born, British Canadian mathematician
• Eduard Heine, German mathematician
• Ernst Hellinger,Polish-born German American mathematician
• Eduard Helly, Austrian-born American mathematician,
• Kurt Hensel, Russian-born German mathematician
• Israel Herstein,Polish-born American Canadian mathematician
• Abraham Hiyya Ha-Nasi, Spanish mathematician, astronomer
• Gerhard Hochschild,
• Melvin Hochster, comutative algebra
• Heinz Hopf, German-born Swiss mathematician, algebraic topology (Jewish father)
• Witold Hurewicz, Polish-born American mathematician
• Adolph Hurwitz, German-born Swiss mathematician
• Karl Jacobi, German mathematician elliptic functons
• Nathan Jacobson, Polish-born American mathematician
• Arthur Jaffe, American mathematician, President of AMS
• Fritz John, Polish-born American mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Mark Kac, Polish-born German American mathematician
• Victor Kac, Russian-born American mathematician
• Richard Kadison, American mathematician, theory of operator algebras
• Jean-Pierre Kahane, French mathematician
• Laszlo Kalmar, Hungarian mathematician
• Leonid Kantorovich, Russian-born mathematician, Nobel Prize (1975) in economics
• Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-born American mathematician
• Samuel Karlin, Polish-born American mathematician
• Richard Karp, American computer scientist
• Edward Kasner, mathematician,
• David Kazhdan, Israel American mathematician, algebra
• Joseph Keller, American mathematician
• John Kemeny, Hungarian-born American mathematician, co-inventor of Basic
• Alexander Kihinchin, Belarussian-born Russian mathematician
• Sergiu Klainerman, Romanian-born American mathematician
• Joseph Kohn, Czech-born American mathematician, complex function theory - leader
• Julius Konig, Hungarian mathematician
• Leo Konigsberger, Polish-born German mathematician
• Maxim Kontsevich, Russian-born German French mathematician, Fields Medal (1998), (Jewish mother)
• Bertram Kostant, American mathematician, Lie Groups
• Mark Krein, Ukrainian mathematician
• Georg Kreisel, Austrian-born British American mathematician,
• Leopold Kronecker, Polish-born German mathematician
• Martin Kruskal, American mathematician,
• Imre Lakatos, Hungarian-born British mathematician
• Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian-born American Irish mathematician
• Edmund Landau, German mathematician, co-founder of number theory
• Emanuel Lasker, Polish-born German American mathematician, World Champion in chess
• Peter Lax, Hungarian-born American mathematician, Abel Prize (2005)
• Solomon Lefschetz, Russian-born American mathematician, topology
• Levi ben Gershon, French mathematician and philosopher, Gersonides
• Beppo Levi, Italian-born Argentinian mathematician, algebraic geometry
• Friedrich Levi, German-born Indian mathematician,
• Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician,
• Leonid Levin, Ukrainian-born Russian U.S. mathematician, computational complexity theory
• Norman Levinson, American mathematician,
• Hyman Levy, British mathematician,
• Paul Levy, French mathematician,
• Hans Lewy, Polish-born German American mathematician,
• Rudolph Lipschitz, German mathematician,
• Michel Loeve, Israeli-born French American mathematician, probability theory
• Alfred Loewy, Polish-born German mathematician,
• Gino Loria, Italian mathematician,
• George Lusztig, British-born American mathematician,
• Kurt Mahler, German-born, British mathematician,
• Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician, creator of fractal geometry
• Yuri Manin, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Gregory Margulis, Russian-born American mathematician, Fields Medal (1978)
• Barry Mazur, American mathematician, algebraic geometry number theory
• Vitali Milman, Ukrainian-born Russian Israeli mathematician
• Claus Moser, British statistician
• Hermann Minkowski, Lithuanian-born German mathematician,
• Richard von Mises, Ukrainian-born Austrian U.S. mathematician
• Louis Mordell, American-born British mathematician,
• George Mostow, American mathematician,
• Mark Naimark, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-born German American mathematician, game theory linear programming father of computer sciece (converted to Catholisism)
• Maxwell Newman, British mathematician, (Jewish father)
• Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-born American mathematician,
• Max Noether, German mathematician, algebraic geometry
• Emmy Noether, German mathematician, high algebra

Mathematicians:M-Z

• Donald Ornstein, American mathematician, differential geometry complex analysis
• Alexander Ostrowski, Ukrainian-born German Swiss mathematician,
• Moritz Pasch, Polish-born German mathematician,
• Grigori Perelman, Russian-bor Russian American mathematician, apperently solved Poincaré conjecture
• Rozsa Peter, Hungarian mathematician,
• Ralph Phillips, American mathematician,
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Russian Israeli mathematician,
• Salvatore Pincherle, Italian mathematician,
• George Polya, Hungarian-born Swiss American mathematician, combinatorics, (Jewish father)
• Emil Post, Polsish-born American mathematician,
• Alfred Pringsheim, Polish-born German Swiss mathematician,
• Hilary Putnam, American mathematician,
• Michael Rabin, Polish-born Israeli American mathematician, nondermenistic algorithm
• Richard Rado, German-born British mathematician, combinatorics graph theory
• Tibor Rado, Hungarian-born British mathematician,
• Marina Ratner, Russian-born Israeli American mathematician,
• Robert Remak, Polish-born German mathematician,
• Alfred Renyi, Hungariam mathematician,
• Frederic Riesz, Hungarian mathematician, founder of functional analysis
• Marcel Riesz, Hungarian-born Swiss mathematician,
• Herbert Robbins, American statistician
• Abraham Robinson, German-born Israeli American mathematician, nonstandard analysis
• Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-born German mathematician,
• Johann Rosenhain, Rusian-born German mathematician,
• Klaus Roth, Polish-born British mathematician, Fields medal (1958)
• Walter Rudin, American mathematician, Principles of Mathemaical Analysis
• Stanislaw Saks, Polish-born mathematician,
• Raphael Salem, Greece-born French American mathematician,
• Peter Sarnak, South African-born American mathematician,
• Robert Schatten,Ukrainian-born American mathematician,
• Juliusz Schauder, Ukrainian mathematician,
• Menahem Schiffer, American mathematician
• Arthur Schonflies, Ploish-born German mathimatician,
• Issai Schur, Belarussian-born German Israeli mathematician,
• Friedrich Schur, German-born Estonian mathematician
• Jacob Schwartz, American mathematician, computer and information sciences
• Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician, Fields medal (1950)
• Herman Schwarz, Polish-born German mathematician,
• Irving Segal, American mathematical physicist
• Beniamino Segre,Italian-born British mathematician,
• Corrado Segre, Italian mathematician,
• Saharon Shelah, Israeli American mathematician
• Lev Shnirelman, Belarusian-born Russian mathematician,
• Yakov Sinai, Russian-born American mathematician,
• Isadore Singer, American mathematician, Abel Prize (2004)
• Robert Solovay,American mathematician,
• David Spiegelhalter, British sttistician,
• Richard Stanley, American mathematician
• Elias Stein, Belarusian-born, American mathemattician
• Charles Stein, American mathematician
• Robert Steinberg, American mathematician,
• Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician,
• Ernst Steinitz, Polish-born German mathematician,
• Shlomo Sternberg, American mathematician,
• Daniel Stroock, American mathematician
• James Sylvester, British mathematician
• Otto Szasz, Hungarian-born American mathematician,
• Gabor Szego, Hungarian-born German American mathematician,
• Jacob Tamarkin,Ukrainian-born Russian American mathematician,
• Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American mathematical logician
• Alfred Tauber, Slovenian mathematician,
• Olga Taussky-Todd, Szech-born German American mathematician,
• Otto Toeplitz, German-born Israeli mathematician,
• Paul Turan, Hungarian mathematician,
• Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-born American mathematician, hydrogen bomb,
• Paul Urysohn, Ukrainian-born Russian mathematician,
• Giuseppe Vitali, Italian mathematician,
• Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician
• Abraham Wald, Romanian-born Austrian American mathematician,
• Andre Weil, French-born American mathematician, Group theory Algebraic geometry,
• Julius Weingarten, Germanian mathematician,
• Alexander Weinstein, Russian-born French American mathematician,
• Norbert Wiener,American mathematical logician, founder of cybernetics,
• Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1969) in physics, founder of nuclear engineering
• Aurel Wintner, Hungarian mathematician,
• Edward Witten, American mathematician and physicist, Fields medal (1990), string theory
• Jacob Wolfowitz,Polish-born American statistican,
• Lotfi Zadeh, Azerbbaijani-born Iranian American mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Oscar Zariski, Belarussian-born Italian American mathematician,
• Doron Zeilberger, Israeli American mathematician, methods used in computer algebra software
• Efraim Zelmanov, Russian-born American mathematician, Fields medal (1994), group theory
• Leo Zippin, American mathematician,
• Max Zorn, German-born American mathematician,

Other academics

See Academics

• Harold Bloom, U.S. academic
• Norman Cohn, British historian
• Alfred Einstein, German-U.S. musicologist, cousin of Albert Einstein
• Erik Erikson, U.S. psychologist (mother was Jewish, father was Danish)
• Norman Finkelstein, U.S. academic
• Moshe Greenberg, Israeli scholar of Semitic languages and Bible
• Zellig Harris, U.S. linguist
• Irving Howe, U.S. historian
• Israel Kirzner, U.S. economist
• Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
• Joseph Klausner, Lithuanian-born Israeli scholar of religion
• Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. historian
• Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist
• Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist
• Fritz Perls, German psychologist
• Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian
• Neil Postman, U.S. media critic
• Ruth Westheimer, German-born, Israeli-American sex expert
• Howard Zinn, U.S. historian
• Amotz Zehavy, Israeli zoologist, revolutionized the theory of evolution

Philosophers

See Philosophy

• Uriel Acosta, Portuguese philosopher (raised Catholic)
• Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, (Jewish father)
• Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist
• Isaiah Berlin, Russian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas
• Ernst Bloch, German philosopher
• Constantin Brunner, German philosopher, critic, essayist
• Martin Buber, German and Israeli philosopher
• Hermann Cohen, German philosopher
• Morris Raphael Cohen
• Noam Chomsky, U.S. linguist, political writer
• Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
• Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
• Sigmund Freud, Austro-Hungarian Viennese "Father of psychoanalysis"
• Lazar Gulkowitsch, Russian-German philosopher Jewish studies schollar
• Bernard-Henri Levy, French philosopher, journalist, film director
• Samuel Hirsch, German rabbi and philosopher
• Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist
• Edmund Husserl, Austro-Hungarian Viennese and German philosopher and Holocaust victim
• Thomas Kuhn, U.S. philosopher of Science
• Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-born French philosopher
• Maimonides, Spanish-North African philosopher, doctor, rabbi
• Herbert Marcuse, German-born U.S. philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
• Benny Morris, Israeli philosopher
• Robert Nozick, U.S. political philosopher, critic of John Rawls A Theory of Justice
• Nostradamus French philosopher, (raised Catholic)
• Philo, Alexandrian (Egypt) philosopher
• Daniel Pipes, US Mideast and Islam scholar and researcher
• Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
• Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, German social philosopher (converted to Christianity)
• Franz Rosenzweig, German Jewish philosopher
• Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
• Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, espoused Pantheism
• Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher
• Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist
• Simone Weil, French philosopher (converted to Catholicism)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, German philosopher
• Otto Weininger, German philosopher
• Max Stirner, German philosopher

• Isaac Abravanel, Minister of Finance
• Judah Abravanel, son of Isaac
• Alfred Adler, psychologist individual psychology
• Felix Adler, founder of Ethical Culture Movement
• Mortimer Adler,
• Samuel Alexander,
• Hannah Arendt, political scientist economist
• Raymond Aron,
• Sir Alfred Ayer, philosopher, populariser of logical positivism
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, machine translation
• David Baumgardt,
• Paul Benacerraf,
• Julien Benda, novelist and critic
• Gustav Bergmann,
• Henry Bergson, philosopher
• Eliezer Berkovits, rabbi theologian
• Paul Bernays, mathematician
• Max Black, linquistic philosopher
• Ned Block, philosopher of mind
• Leonard Bloomfield, linquist
• Franz Boas, father of modern anthropology
• George Boas, logician
• David Bohm, physicist
• Niels Bohr, physicist
• George Boolos, logician
• Leon Brunschvicg,
• Georg Cantor, father of set theory
• Ernst Cassirer, philosopher and theorist
• Stanley Cavell, professor of aesthetics Harvard
• Leon Chwistek,
• Hermann Cohen,
• Jonas Cohn, Theory of the Dialects
• Hasdai Crescas,
• Arthur Danto, atr critic Coleman
• Hubert Dreyfus, artifical intelligence
• Ronald Dworkin,
• Albert Einstein, physicist
• Solomon Feferman, mathematical logic
• Herbert Feigl,
• Arthur Fine,
• Alain Finkielkraut, essayist, philosopher
• Stanley Fish, literary theorist
• Jerry Fodor, philosopher of mind
• Abraham Fraenkel, mathematician
• Adolphe Franck, the Kabbalah
• Philip Frank, mathematician
• Semyon Frank, religious philosopher
• Erich Fromm, psychotherapist
• Saadiah Gaon, Babylon exilarch philosopher
• Ernest Gellner, social anthropology
• Gersonides (Levi Ben Gershom), philosopher, Talmudist, Bible commentator, mathematician, astronomer
• Andre Glucksmann,
• Alvin Goldman, philosopher of mind
• Sir Ernst Gombrich, art historian
• Theodor Gomperz,
• Nelson Goodman,
• Kurt Grelling,
• Adolf Grunbaum,
• Hans Hahn,
• Elie Halevy, historian
• Gilbert Harman,
• Herbert Hart, legal philosopher
• Jeanne Hersch,
• Abraham Heschel,
• Samuel Hirsch, Reform Judaism philosopher
• Douglas Hofstadter, computer scientist artifical intelligence (Jewish father}
• Sidney Hook,
• Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology
• Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron),
• Isaac Israeli, physician
• Edmond Jabes,
• Roman Jakobson, linquist
• Vladimir Jankelevitch, philosopher
• Richard Jeffrey,
• Hans Jonas, philosopher of environmentalism
• Philo Judaeus, of Alexandria
• Horace Kallen, educator
• Jerrold Katz,
• Felix Kaufmann,
• Walter Kaufmann,
• Hans Kelsen, drafted Austrian Constitution 1920
• Kurt Koffka, psychologist gestalt psychology
• Aurel Kolnai,
• Alexandre Koyre, hystorian of science
• Georg Kreisel, mathematitian
• Saul Kripke, philosopher logician
• Paul Kristeller, Italian Renaissance historian
• Leopold Kronecker, mathematician
• Richard Kroner,
• Thomas Kuhn, philosopher historian
• Imre Lakatos,
• Theodore Lessing,
• Lucien Levi-Bruhl, philosopher anthropolog
• Adolf Lindenbaum,
• Karl Lowith,
• Gyorgy Lukacs, philosopher literary critic
• Isaac Luria, founder of Kabbalah
• Moses Maimonides, Ben-Maimon Moshe physician Rambam
• Karl Mannheim, philosopher
• Gabriel Marcel,
• Ruth Marcus, logician
• Herbert Marcuse,
• Karl Marx, founder of communism
• Fritz Mauthner, history of art
• Alexander Men, a christian priest
• Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher
• Emile Meyerson,
• Marvin Minsky, father of artifical intelligence
• Ludwig von Mises,
• Richard von Mises, mathematician
• Michel de Montaigne, father of the essay
• Sydney Morgenbesser, philosopher of Science
• Ernest Nagel, philosopher of Science
• Thomas Nagel, Philosophy and Law
• Leonard Nelson,
• John von Neumann, mathematician game theory
• Otto Neurath,
• Robert Nozick, libertarianism
• Martha Nussbaum,
• Arthur Pap,
• Leonard Peikoff, novelist objectivism
• Michael Polanyi,
• Richard Popkin,
• Sir Karl Popper, philosopher of science
• Emil Post, mathematician
• Moritz Presburger, computers
• Viscount Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemicist; Nobel Prize (1977)
• Hilary Putnam, functionalism
• Ayn Rand, novelist objectivism
• Wilhelm Reich, psychologist
• Hans Reichenbach,
• Abraham Robinson, mathematician
• Rosenstock-Huessy,
• Franz Rosenzweig,
• Michael Sandel, communitarism
• Edward Sapir, language scholar and anthropologist
• Israel Scheffler,
• Max Scheler,
• Alfred Schutz, phenomenology
• Lev Shestov,
• Abner Shimony, philosopher and physicist
• Georg Simmel, co founder of sociology
• Herbert Simon, father of AI
• Peter Singer,
• Joseph Soloveitchik,
• Baruch de Spinoza, philosopher
• Edith Stein, martyr Saint 1998 killed by Nazis
• William Stern, psychologist inventor of I.Q. Intelligence Quotient
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Alfred Tarski, mathematician
• Teresa of Ávila,
• Judith Thomson,
• Juan Vives,
• Jean Wahl,
• Friedrich Waismann,
• Simone Weil,
• Paul Weiss,
• Max Wertheimer, Gestalt theory psychologist
• Morton White, philosophy historian
• Norbert Wiener, mathematician
• Eugene Wigner, Nobel ph69 founder of nuclear engineering
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher

Physicists:A-L

See Physics

• Anatole Abragam, Russian-born French physicist, father of NMR
• Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003), (Jewish mother)
• Eric Adelberger,American physicist,
• Stephen Adler, American physicist,
• Yakir Aharonov, Israeli American physicist,
• Alexander Akhiezer, Belarusian-born Ukrainian physicist, school of Landau
• Berni Alder, German-born Swiss American physicist, computational physics
• Zhores Alferov,Belarusian-born Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2000), (Jewish mother)
• Ralph Alpher, American physicist, background radiation astrophysicist
• Boris Altshuler,Russian-born American physicist, quantum mechanics
• Vladimir Arnold, Ukrainian-born, Russian American mathematician, (Jewish mother)
• Richard Arnowitt, American physicist,
• Vadim Auslender, nuclear physics, (unconfirmed)
• Mark Azbel, Ukrainian-born Russian Israeli particle physicist,
• John Bahcall, American astrophysicist, President of American Astronomical Society 1978-81 1990-92
• Neta Bahcall, Israeli-born American astrophysicist,
• Valentine Bargmann, German-born American physicist
• Henry Barschall, German-born American physicist, (one not Jewish grandparent)
• Gordon Baym, American-physicist,
• Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer
• Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-born Israeli American professor of theoretical physics
• George Benedek, American physicist,
• Vladimir Berestetsky, Ukrainian-born Russian physicist
• Felix Berezin,
• Peter Bergmann, German-born American physicist
• J. D. Bernal, Irish-born British physicist,
• Ira Bernstein, American physicist,
• Sir Michael Berry,British physicist
• Hans Bethe, German-born British American physicist, Nobel Prize (1967), solar energy from thermonuclear reaction (Jewish mother)
• John Blatt, Austrian-born American Israeli physicist
• Felix Bloch, Swiss-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1952), NMR
• David Bohm, American British quantum physicist,philosopher of science
• Niels Bohr, Danish-born British U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1922 ), theory of atomic structure (Jewish mother)
• Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize (1975), (Jewish paternal grandmother)
• Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist
• Max Born, German-born British physicist, Nobel prize (1954)
• Herman Branover, Latvian-born Israeli physicist turbulence magnnetohydrodynamics
• Gregory Breit, Russian-born American physicist,
• Edouard Brezin, French physicist,
• Solomon Buchsbaum, Polish-born Canadian American physicist, plasma physics
• Gersh Budker, Ukrainian-born Russian physicist,
• John Cahn, German-born American physicist, material science
• Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born Swiss French physicist, Nobel Prize (1992),
• Marvin Cohen, Canadian-born American physycist, leader of nanotechnology, co-founder of Nanomix
• Sam Cohen, American physicist, developer of neutron bomb 1958
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algirian-born French physicist, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Sidney Coleman, American physicist,
• Leon Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Richard Dalitz, Australian-born American British physicist,
• Sidney Dancoff,
• Stanley Deser, American particle physicist,
• Martin Deutsch, Austrian-born American physicist, discovered positronium (85)
• David Deutsch, Israeli-born British quantum computing physicist,
• Bryce Dewitt, American physicist,
• Cyril Domb, British Israeli physicist,
• Sidney Drell, American particle physicist,
• Max Dresden, Dutch-born American physicist,
• Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist,
• Saul Dushman, Russian-born American physicist,
• Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-born Russian Dutch physicist,
• Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss American physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
• Walter Elsasser,German-born American physicist,
• Francois Englert, Belgian physicist,
• Paul Epstein, Polish-born American physicist,
• Immanuel Esterman,
• Ugo Fano, Italian-born American physicist,
• Eugene Feenberg, American physicist, theory of atomic energy
• George Feher, Slovenian-born American physicist, Bell Labs magnetic resonance
• Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist, Chaos Theory
• Evgeny Feinberg, Azebaijani-born Russian nuclear physicist
• Gerald Feinberg, American physicist,
• Herman Feshbach,American nuclear physicist, President of the Academy of Arts and Science
• Richard Feynman, American quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• David Finkelstein, American physicist, quantum and space-time theory
• Michael Fisher, British American physicist,
• Efim Fradkin, Belarusian-born Russian physicist,
• James Franck, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)
• Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (1958), (Jewish father)
• Edward Fredkin, digital physicist,
• Yakov Frenkel, Russian physicist,
• Herbert Friedman, American physicist, solar x-rays
• Jerome Friedman, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1990), linear accelerator quarks
• Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician, metereologist (one Jewish parent)
• Otto Frisch, Austrian-born Danish British physicist, nuclear fission nephew of Maitner
• Herbert Frohlich, British physicist, superconductivity
• Sergio Fubini, Italian physicist,
• Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born German British physicist, Nobel Prize (1971), hollogram
• Richard Garwin,American physicist,
• Theodore Geballe, American physicist,
• Margaret Geller, American astronomer,
• Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1969), quarks
• Semen Gernshtein, China-born Russian nuclear physicist,
• Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003)
• Donald Glaser, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1960), inventor of the bubble chamber
• Sheldon Glashow,American physicist, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Roy Glauber, American physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
• Thomas Gold, Austrian-born British physicist astronomer (Jewish father)
• Vitaly Goldanski, Belarusian-born Russian nuclear theoretist
• Marvin Goldberger, American physicist,
• Gerson Goldhaber, Austrian-born Israeli American, nuclear particle physicist cosmic physics
• Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-born Aerican physicist,
• Eugen Goldstein, Polish-born American physicist,
• Jeffrey Goldstone, American physicist,
• Yuri Golfand, Ukrainian-born Russian Israeli physicist, Supersymmetry
• Walter Gordon,
• Kurt Gottfried, Austrian-born Canadian American particle theorist
• Samuel Goudsmit, Dutch-born American physicist, discovery of electron spin
• Harold Grad, American physicist, magneto-fluid dynamics
• Leo Graetz, German physicist, investigated dispersal of electric waves
• Michael Green, British physicist,
• Brian Greene, American string theorist,
• Oscar Greenberg, American particle physicist, quantum chromodynamics
• Jesse Greenstein, American astronomer,
• Vladimir Gribov, Russian physicist,
• David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize (2004), quarks
• Marcel Grossmann, Hungarian-born Swiss physicist, the General Theory of Relativity
• Isay Gurevich, Latvian-born Russian physicist,
• Alan Guth, American physicist, cosmic inflation
• Erwin Hahn, American physicists, nuclear spin echoes NMR
• Bertrand Halperin, American physicist,
• Morton Hamermesh, American physicist,
• Serge Haroche, French physicist, Quantum Engineering
• Alan Heeger, American physicist, Nobel Prize (2000) in chemestry
• Walter Heitler, German-born Irish Swiss physicist, quantum chemistry
• Robert Herman, American scientist, father of transportation science
• William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (Jewish paternak grandfather)
• Gustav Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize (1925), (Jewish parental grandfather)
• Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, electro magnetic waves uncle of Gustav (Jewish father)
• Sir Peter Hirsch, British physicist,material science
• Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)
• Pierre Hohenberg, American scientist,
• Theodore Holstein, American scientist,
• Leopold Infeld,Polish physicist,
• Boris Ioffe, Russian physicist,
• Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist,
• Ernst Ising, German-born American physicist,
• Werner Israel, German-born South African American physicist and cosmologist
• Claude Itzykson, French physicist, quantum field theory
• Arthur Jaffe, American physycist, president of AMS
• Max Jammer, Isreli American philosopher and historian of physics
• Robert Jastrow, American astronomer and physicist
• Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, Italian physicist, (Jewish father)
• Sir Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel Prize (1973)
• Mark Kac, Polish-born German American physicist,
• Leo Kadanoff, American physicist,
• Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist,
• Arthur Kantrowitz, American physicist, engineering
• Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-born German American physicist and engineer,
• Robert Karplus, Austrian-born American physicist,
• Marc Kastner, American physicist, electron transistor
• Leonid Keldysh, Russian physicist, semiconductor physics, (Jewish father)
• Yulii Khariton,Russian physicist, nuclear scientist
• Isaak Kikoin, Lithuanian-born Russian nuclear physicist and astronomer,
• David Kirzhnits, Russian physicist,
• Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and string theory pioneer
• Daniel Kleppner,American physicist, atomic research
• Vadim Knizhnik,Ukrainian-born Russian physicist,
• Walter Kohn, Austrian-born Canadian American physicist, Nobel Prize (1998) in chemistry
• Alexander Kompaneets, Ukrainian Russian physicist,
• Rudolf Kompfner, Austrian-born British American physicist, inventor of traveling wave tube
• John Kosterlitz,
• Robert Kraichnan, American physicist, turbulence
• Martin Kruskal, American physicist,
• Nicholas Kurti, Hungarian-born British physicist, low-temperature,
• Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian Russian theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1962)
• Rolf Landauer,
• Alfred Lande,
• Grigory Landsberg,
• James Langer, German-born American physicist,
• Karl Lark-Horovitz, Austrian-born American physicist, solid state physics
• Melvin Lax, quantum optics lazers Bell Labs
• Benjamin Lax, American physicist,
• Joel Lebowitz, Ukrainian-born American physicist,
• Leon Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1996), superfluidity
• Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian physicist,
• Harold Levine,
• Albert Libchaber, American French physicist, Chaos theorist
• Elliott Lieb, American physicist,
• Robert von Lieben, Austrian physicist, amplifier thermionic volve cathode ray tube
• Hans Liepmann, American Aueronautical Engineer
• Evgeny Lifshitz, Ukrainian-born Russian physicist,
• Evgeny Likhtman, Russian physicist, Supersymetry
• Julius Lilienfeld, Polish-born German Inventor of transistor 1920
• Harry Lipkin, Israeli physicist, particle physics
• Bernard Lippmann,
• Gabriel Lippmann, Luxemburg-born French physicist, Noble Prize (1908), first permanent color photographic process
• Fritz London, Polish-born German American physicist, quantum chemist
• Francis Low, American theoretical physicist
• Joachim Luttinger, American physicist, Bell Labs plasma

Physicists: M-Z

• Theodore Maiman, American physicist, first operable laser
• Leonard Mandel, German-born British physicist, co-founder of quantum optics
• Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French American mathematician,
• Leonid Mandelstam, Belarusian-born Ukrainian Russian physicist,
• Stanley Mandelstam, South African-born British American theoretical physicist
• Robert Marshak, American physicist,
• Paul Martin, American physicist,
• Bernd Matthias,German-born Swiss American physicist, superconductivity, (not Jewish maternal grandparent)
• Peter Mazur, Austrian-born Dutch physicist, co- ounder of nonequilibrium thermodinamics
• Lise Meitner, Austrian German Swiss physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
• Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British physicist, cryogenic engineering,
• David Mermin, American physicist, condensed matter physics
• Leon Mestel, British astronomer
• Albert Michelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1907) optical precision instruments
• Arkadii Migdal, Belarusian-born Russian physicist,
• Hermann Minkowski, Lithuanian-born German mathematical physicist,
• Rudolph Minkowski, French-born German American astronomer,
• Elliot Montroll,British-born American physicist,
• Benjamin Mottelson, American-born Denish physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)
• Yuval Neeman, Israeli physicist,
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-born German American scientist,
• Lothar Nordheim, German-born American physicist,
• Lev Okun, Russian physicist,
• Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist, "father of the atomic bomb"
• Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist,
• Leonard Ornstein, American physicist,
• Egon Orowan, Hungarian-born British American physicist,
• Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1996), superfluidity in Hellium-3, (Jewish father)
• Jeremiah P. Ostriker, American astrophysicist,
• Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist, particle physics historian of Science
• Wolfgang Panofsky, German-born American physicist, particle physics
• Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize (1945), (one not Jewish maternal grandparent)
• Rudolf Peierls, German-born American British physicist, (Jewish father)
• Arno Penzias, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1978)
• Michael Pepper, British physicist, TeraView
• Jerome Percus, American scientist, Genome analysis
• Yakov Perelman, Russian author of popular science books
• Asher Peres, Israeli physicist,
• Martin Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1995), Tau Lepton
• David Pines, American physicist,
• George Placzek, Czech-born American physicist,
• Boris Podolsky, American physicist, EPR paradox
• David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize (2004), quarks
• Alexander Polyakov, Russian physicist,
• Isaak Pomeranchuk, Polish-born Ukrainian Russian physicist, school of Landau
• Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-born British Russian physicist, neutrino
• Frank Press, American geophysicist President of NAS
• Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born Belgian physicist,
• Henry Primakoff, Russian-born American physicist, (one not Jewish grandparent)
• Ernst Pringsheim, Polish-born German physicist,
• Isidor Rabi, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1944), nuclear magnetic resonance NMR
• Giulio Racah, Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician
• Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer, co-founder of TRW
• Emmanuel Rashba,Ukrainian-born Russian American physicist,
• Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1995)
• Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1976)
• Nathan Rosen, American-born Russian Israeli physicist, EPR paradox
• Marshall Rosenbluth, American physicist,
• Bruno Rossi, Italian-born American physicist, space physics
• Norman Rostoker,Canadian-born American scientist, physics of fluids astronomy
• Robert Sachs, American physicist,
• Carl Sagan, American astronomer and educator,
• Edwin Salpeter,Austrian-born Australian American astronomer,
• David Saxon, British physicist,
• Arthur Schawlow, American-born Canadian U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1981),co-inventor of laser (Jewish father)
• Mário Schenberg, Brazilian theoretical physicist
• Joel Scherk, French physicist, string theory,
• Leonard Schiff,American physicist,
• David Schramm, American astrophysicist, (Jewish father)
• Sir Arthur Schuster, German-born British astrophysicist,
• John Schwartz, American co-inventor of theory of superstrings,
• Melvin Schwartz,American physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Martin Schwarzschild, German-born American astronomer,
• Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer, showed that black hole is a possible solution of general relativity's equations
• Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Dennis Sciama, British cosmologist,
• Emilio Segrè, Italian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1959), discovered anti-proton
• Nathan Seiberg, Israeli American physicists, string theory
• Robert Serber, American physicist,
• Amos de Shalit, Israeli nuclear physicist,
• Dan Shechtman, Israeli physicist, quasi periodic cristalls 1982
• Mikhail Shifman, Russian-born American particle physicist,
• Barry Simon, American physicist,
• Sir Francis Simon, German-born British physicist,
• Yakov Sinai, Russian-born American mathematician,
• Alberto Sirlin, American physicist,
• Lee Smolin, loop quantum gravity,
• Gerald Soffen, American NASA scientist
• Lee Smolin, American physicist, quantum gravity
• Jack Steinberger, German-born American Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Paul Steinhardt, American physicist, quasicrystals particle physics
• Otto Stern, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
• Daniel Sternheimer, French physicist,
• David Stoler, American physicist, Bell Labs
• Raymond Stora, French-born American physicist,
• Andrew Strominger, American physicist, string theory
• Leonard Susskind, American physicist, co discovery of String theory (Jewish father)
• Leo Szilard Hungarian-born American physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project nuclear fission reactor
• David Tabor, British physicist,
• Igal Talmi, Ukrainian-born Israeli American physicist,
• Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (1958), (unconfirmed)
• Valentine Telegdi, Hungarian-born Swiss American physicist,
• Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American physicist, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
• Laszlo Tisza, Hungarian-born Ukrainian American physicist,
• Sam Treiman, American physicist, particle physics
• Stanislaw Ulam,Ukrainian-born American physicist, hydrogen bomb mathematician
• Arkady Vainshtein, Russian-born American particle physicist,
• Vladimir Veksler, Russian nuclear physicist,
• Gabriele Veneziano, Italian-born Israeli Swiss physicist, quantum field theory
• Emil Warburg, German physicist,
• Joseph Weber, American physicist, gravitational waves microwave amplifier
• Steven Weinberg American physicist, Nobel prize (1979), electroweak force
• Alvin Weinberg, American physicist,
• William Weisberger, American physicist,
• Rainer Weiss, German-born American astrophysics founder of LIGO project
• Victor Weisskopf, Austrian-born American physicist, director of CERN
• Stephen Wisner, quantum cryptography,
• Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-born physicist, Nobel Prize (1963), Founder of Nuclear Engineering
• Edward Witten, American mathematician and physicist, Fields Medal (1990)
• Emil Wolf, Czech-born British physicist, Principles of Optics with M.Born
• Lincoln Wolfenstein, American physicist,
• Siegfried Wouthuysen, Dutch physicist,
• Amnon Yariv, American physicist, Bell Labs optical electronics, co-founder of Ortel Corp
• Wolfgang Yourgrau, astronomer
• Jerrold Zacharias, American physicist,
• Richard Zare, American physicist, Lazer chemistry
• Herbert Zeiger, American physicist, development of maser super-low-noise microwave amplifier
• Yakov Zeldovich,Belarusian-born Russian physicist, astronomer
• John Ziman, Dutch-born British physicist,
• George Zweig, American physicist, discovery of quarks

Psychologists

See Psychology

• Karl Abraham,
• Nathan Ackerman,
• Alfred Adler, individual psychology Austrian psychoanalyst
• Franz Alexander, father of psychosomatic medicine
• Abram Amsel,
• Silvano Arieti,
• Eliot Aronson, social psychologist
• Solomon Asch, gestaldt psychologist US social psychologist
• Michael Balint, psychoanalyst and biochemist
• Henri Baruk,
• Aaron Beck, founder of Cognitive therapy perception psychologist
• Lauretta Bender, Visual Motor Gestalt Test
• Theresa Benedek,
• Henry Bergson, philosopher
• Leonard Berkowitz,
• Eric Berne, Founder of transactional analysis
• Hippolyte Bernheim, hypnosis
• Bruno Bettelheim, developmental child psychologist
• Jack Block,
• Walter Blumenfeld,
• Curt Bondy,
• Josef Breuer,
• Abraham Brill,
• Urie Bronfenbrenner,
• Jerome Bruner, Cognitive Psychology
• Egon Brunswik, mathematical psychologist
• Charlotte Buhler,
• Gerald Caplan,
• Avram Chomsky, Cognitive Psychology
• Ruth Cohn, German-born psychologist
• Gerald Davison, Abnormal Psychology
• Max Dessoir, philosopher psychologist
• Diana Deutsch, British-born, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• Felix Deutsch,
• Helene Deutsch,
• Morton Deutsch,
• Emanuel Donchin,
• Leonard Doob, social psychologist
• Carolyn Drake, British developmental psychologist
• Emile Durkheim,
• Montague Eder,
• Leo Eitinger,
• Max Eitingon,
• Paul Ekman, facial expressions
• Albert Ellis,
• Erik Erikson, psychoanalysis Denish
• Leon Festinger, U.S. cognitive social psychologist
• Paul Federn,
• Otto Fenichel,
• Sandor Ferenczi,
• Leon Festinger, cognitive dissonance
• Jerry Fodor, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• Charles Fox,
• Jerome Frank,
• Victor Frankl, Austrian psychoanalyst father of logotherapy
• Else Frenkel-Brunswik,
• Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
• Anna Freud, psychoanalysis
• Kate Friedlander,
• Erich Fromm, psychotherapist
• Frieda Fromm-Reichmann,
• Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligence
• Norman Geschwind,
• Haim Ginott, child development
• Lila Gleitman,
• Sam Glucksberg, U.S. psycholinguist
• Erving Goffman, American social psychologist
• Lewis R. Goldberg, U.S. personality psychologist
• Marvin Goldfried,
• Kurt Goldstein, founder of Gestalt Psychology
• Roy Grinker,
• Ervin R. Hafter, U.S. psychoacoustician
• Fritz Heider, German mathematical psychologist
• Heinz Hartmann,
• Richard Herrnstein,
• Gerardus Heymans, philosopher psychologist
• Ira Hirsh, psychologist
• Julian Hochberg,
• Hans Hoff,
• Willi Hoffer,
• Leo Hurvich,
• Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology
• Susan Isaacs,
• Irving Janis,
• Murray Jarvik, smoking habits
• Joseph Jastrow,
• Wilhelm Jerusalem, philosopher and psychologist
• Jerome Kagan, developmental psychologist
• Daniel Kahneman, Israeli cognitive psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in economics
• Leo Kanner, child psychiatry autism
• Helen Kaplan, sexual desire disorders
• Abram Kardiner, psyciatrist
• Daniel Katz, social psychologist
• David Katz, gestalt perception
• Alan Kazdin, Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Otto Kernberg, psychoanalysis
• Boaz Keysar, Israeli-born, U.S. psycholinguist
• Melanie Klein, Austrian born British psychoanalyst
• Nathan Kline, Institute for Psychiatric Research
• Otto Klineberg,
• Kurt Koffka, founder of Gestalt Psychology
• Kurt Koffka, German cognitive theorist and psychologist founder of Gestalt Psychology
• Lawrence Kohlberg,
• Leonard Krasner,
• David Krech,
• Ernst Kris,
• Lawrence Kubie, psychiatrist
• Arnold Lazarus,
• Richard Lazarus,
• Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher psychologist ethnologist
• Kurt Lewin, U.S. cognitive theorist and psychologist co-founder of Gestalt Psychology
• Sir Aubrey Lewis,
• Edward Lichtenstein,
• Robert Lifton, psychiatrist
• Otto Lipmann,
• Jacques Loeb, biologist physiologist
• Rudolph Loewenstein,
• Elizabeth Loftus,
• Cesare Lombroso, father of criminology physician
• Perry London,
• Abraham Luchins, Gestalt Theory
• Alexander Luria, psychologist psychiatrist
• Margaret Mahler,
• Moses Maimonides, Rambam
• Ellen Markman, U.S. developmental psychologist
• Judd Marmor,
• Abraham Maslow, founder of humanistic psychology
• Jules Masserman,
• Donald Meichenbaum,
• Andrew Meltzoff, U.S. cognitive-developmental psychologist
• Carolyn Mervis, U.S. cognitive psychologist, developmental neuroscientist
• Stanley Milgram, US social psychologist
• Eugene Minkowski, phenomenological psychiatry
• Walter Mischel,
• Jacob Moreno, father of psychodrama and group psychotherapy
• Hugo Munsterberg,
• Charles Myers,
• Jacob Nachmias,
• Ulric Neisser, Cognitive Psychologist
• Erich Neumann,
• Fritz Perls, gestalt therapy
• Steven Pinker, Canadian cognitive evolutionary psychologist
• Michael Posner,
• Leo Postman,
• Karl Pribram, neuroscientist
• Ira Progoff,
• Sandor Rado,
• Otto Rank, psychoanalysis
• David Rapaport,
• Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
• Fritz Redl,
• Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst creatpr of orgonomy
• Theodor Reik, psychoanalysis
• Geza Revesz, Psycology of Music
• Irvin Rock, U.S. perception, Gestalt psychologist
• Judith Rodin,
• Milton Rokeach,
• Morris Rosenberg,
• Robert Rosenthal, U.S. social psychologist
• Lee Ross, U.S. social cognition psychologist
• Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist
• Friedrich Rothschild,
• Julian Rotter, clinical psychologist
• Edgar Rubin, gestalt psychologist
• Hans Sachs,
• Oliver Sacks, neurologist essayist
• Manfred Sakal,
• Jenny Saffran, U.S. developmental psychologist
• Andrew Salter,
• Stanley Schachter, US social psychologist
• Paul Schilder,
• Hanna Segal, Polish-born British psychoanalyst
• Martin Seligman, positive psychology
• Otto Selz,
• Richard Shiffrin,
• Herbert Simon, U.S. Cognitive Psychologist
• Samuel Slavson,

Dan Slobin, U.S. cognitive psychologist

• John Sloboda, British cognitive psychologist (Jewish mother)
• Elizabeth Spelke,
• Baruch de Spinoza, philosopher
• Rene Spitz,
• Wilhelm Stekel,
• William Stern, psychologist inventor of I.Q. Intelligence Quotient
• Robert Sternberg, intelligence & creativity
• Saul Sternberg, U.S. mathematical psychologist
• Thomas Szasz,
• Daniel Tausk,
• Moritz Tramer,
• Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive psychologist
• Barbara Tversky, U.S. cognitive psychologist
• Leonard Ullmann,
• Lev Vygotsky, Cognitive Psychology Russian psychologist
• Paul Wachtel,
• Brian Wandell, U.S. perception psychologist
• David Wechsler, Intelligence Scale
• Albert Weiss,
• Heinz Werner,
• Max Wertheimer, founder of Gestalt Psychology
• Benjamin Winer,
• Herman Witkin,
• Fritz Wittels,
• Ludwig Wittgenstein,
• Lewis Wolberg, psychiatrist
• Werner Wolff,
• Joseph Wolpe,
• Gregory Zilboorg, psychoanalyst

Sociologists

• Theodor Adorno, philosopher Wiesenground
• Raymond Aron, sociologist historian
• Gary Becker, economist
• Howard Becker, President of ASA
• Daniel Bell, sociologist journalist
• Reinhard Bendix, President of ASA 1969
• Sansford Berman, Radical librarian
• Peter Blau,
• Alvin Boskoff,
• Judith Butler,  ???
• Werner Cahnman,
• Lewis Coser,
• Emile Durkheim, co founder of sociology philosopher
• Schmuel Eisenstadt, sociologist
• Norbert Elias, sociologist
• Amitai Etzioni, German-born Israeli American sociologist, President of ASA 1995
• Lewis Feuer,
• Norman Finkelstein, political theorist
• Ronald Freedman,
• Georges Friedmann,
• HerbertGans,
• Harold Garfunkel,
• Morris Ginsberg,
• Nathan Glazer, sociologist American Judaism
• Erving Goffman,
• CalvinGoldscheider, The Transformation of the Jews
• Leo Goodman,
• Mark Granovetter,
• Ludwig Gumplowicz,
• Georges Gurvitch,
• Louis Guttman,
• Maurice Halbwachs,
• Philip Hauser, president of ASA
• Robert Hauser,
• Will Herberg,
• Max Horkheimer,
• Irving Horovitz,
• Alex Inkeles,
• Marie Jahoda,
• Morris Janowitz,
• Nathan Keyfitz, world demography
• Baruch Kimmerling,
• Paul Lazarsfeld, mathematical sociology
• Bernard Lazerwitz,
• Oscar Lewis, anthropologist
• Stanley Lieberson,
• Seymour Lipset, sociologist
• Karl Manheim, philosopher
• Herbert Marcuse, philosopher
• Karl Marx, founder of communism
• Marcel Mauss, sociologist anthropologist
• Robert Merton, sociologist
• Stanley Milgram, social psychologist
• Franz Oppenheimer, physician economist sociologst
• David Riesman, sociologist
• Sophia Robison,
• Arnold Rose,
• Alfred Schutz, sociologist
• Edward Shils,
• Georg Simmel, co founder of sociology philosopher
• Marshall Sklare,
• Neil Smelser, President 1997 of ASA
• Albert Vorspan,
• Louis Wirth, sociologist
• Kurt Wolff,

Reference

• http://www.jinfo.org/index.html