Famous Jews Interactive

Jewish Scientists and Researchers

[383] Albert Einstein -- The most famous and influential scientist of all time
[95] Richard Feynman -- 'The greatest scientific mind since World War II '
[52] Gregory Pincus -- developed the first practical oral contraceptive pill
[66] Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure
[60] Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures
[34] Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
[58] Edward Teller -- Physicist, 'father of the hydrogen bomb'
[53] Leo Szilard -- Physicist, proved the possiblily of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933.
[45] Juri Lotman -- author of 'Semiotics and the History of Culture
[44] Jonas Salk -- Developed the first polio vaccine.
[42] Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
[39] Hans Krebs -- 1953 Nobel Prize for the insight into the fundamental metabolic pathways ('Krebs bicycle')
[28] Rita Levi-Montalcini -- winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on Nerve Growth factor (with Stanley Cohen)
[37] J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Nuclear physicist, head of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos
[21] Emile Durkheim -- founder of modern sociology
[25] Lev Landau -- Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
[26] Albert Sabin -- Developed the improved live polio vaccine.
[21] Wolfgang Pauli -- discoverer of the Exclusion Principle and the neutrino
[11] Albert Michelson -- Nobel Prize for Physics 1907
[12] George WALD -- Nobel Price in Medicine for work contributing to our understanding of vision.
[15] Hans Bethe -- Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967
[14] Murray Gell-Mann -- Nobel prize in physics 1969. Introduced 'quarks'.
[11] Franz Boas -- 20th century anthropologist-founder of the relativistic, culture-centred school of anthropology
[13] Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, developed laser-cooling technology
[12] Jule Gregory Charney -- Meteorologist, chair of the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP)
[12] Douglas Osheroff -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, for work in superfluidity
[11] Lise Meitner -- (1878-1968) Austrian physicist, discovery of nuclear fission
[11] William Herschel -- astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus
[11] Joshua Lederberg -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, discovered viral transduction
[6] Georges Charpak -- won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 for his particle detector
[10] Stanley Cohen -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, for work in experimental embryology
[10] Jack Steinberger -- Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1988
[9] Isidor Rabi -- Nobel prize in physics in 1944
[7] Selman Waksman -- Microbiologist, 1952 Nobel Prize winner in physiology and medicine
[8] Immanuel Velikovsky -- Polymath genius, astrophysicist, historian, linguist, encyclopedist
[9] Harold Kroto -- Nobel prize-winner in Chemistry, discoverer of C60
[9] Cesar Milstein -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: field of immunology
[9] Hermann Muller -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for work on biological effects of radiation
[9] David Lee -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: for work on superfluidity
[9] Leon Lederman -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, 1988
[5] Tadeus Reichstein -- Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
[8] Howard Temin -- 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine
[6] Ferdinand Cohn -- one of the founders of bacteriology
[8] Arno Penzias -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, studied interstellar isotopes
[8] Jack Steinberger -- Particle Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize
[8] Martin Perl -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: discoverer of the Tau Lepton
[8] Aaron Klug -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, for work on X-ray analysis of biomolecules
[8] Herbert Brown -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: for his work in the borane-organoborane area
[8] Daniel Nathans -- Nobel prize in Medicine: for restriction analysis of Simian Virus 40 DNA
[8] Stanley Prusiner -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for the discovery of Prions, infectious proteins