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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,
- Elie 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
- 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,