List of Jewish scientists

List of Jewish Scientists and Philosophers:

Main article: List of Jews.

• See also List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners.

Bio-chemists

See Biology and Chemistry

• Karl Djerassi, Austrian-American Chemist
• Hans Krebs German-born English biologist, discovered Krebs Cycle
• Gregory Pincus, US biologist, inventor of the birth control pill
• Jonas Salk, US medical scientist, inventor of polio vaccine
• Israel Shahak, Polish-born Israeli chemistry professor, critic of Zionism
• Lina Stern, Soviet biochemist, inventor of "Soviet penicillin", the only female full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• George Waldbott, German-US physician; allergy and fluoride research pioneer.
• Chaim Weizmann, Russian born Chemist, first President of the State of Israel

Cognitive Scientists and Psychologists

See Cognitive science and Psychology

• Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychoanalyst
• Solomon Asch, US Social psychologist
• Evan Balaban, US biologist, neuroscientist
• Aaron T. Beck, US Cognitive-semantic therapist
• Jacob Beck, US perception psychologist
• Ursula Bellugi, US cognitive neuroscientist
• Leonard Bloomfield, US Linguist
• Franz Boas, Linguistic Anthropologist
• Albert S. Bregman, Canadian cognitive scientist
• Egon Brunswik, Mathematical Psychologist
• Ruth Cohn, German-born psychologist
• Noam Chomsky, US Psycholinguist
• Diana Deutsch, British-born, US cognitive psychologist
• Carolyn Drake, British developmental psychologist
• Gerald Edelman, US Neuroscientist
• Albert Einstein, US Scientist
• Steven Engel, US cognitive neuroscientist
• Erik Eriksson, Danish Psychoanalyst
• Martha Farah, US cognitive neuroscientist
• Leon Festinger, US Cognitive Social psychologist
• Jerry Fodor, US cognitive psychologist
• Viktor Frankl, Austrian Psychoanalyst and Logotherapist
• Anna Freud, Austrian Psychoanalyst
• Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychoanalyst
• Eric Fromm, German Psychoanalyst
• Norman Gerschwind, Neuroscientist
• Sam Glucksberg, US psycholinguist
• Erving Goffman, American Social psychologist
• Lewis R. Goldberg, US personality psychologist
• Allison Gopnik, Canadian-born US cognitive scientist
• Stephen Jay Gould, US paleontologist
• Ervin R. Hafter, US psychoacoustician
• Fritz Heider, German Mathematical Psychologist
• Richard Ivry, US cognitive neuroscientist
• Ray Jackendoff, US Cognitive Scientist
• Daniel Kahneman, Israeli Cognitive psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in economics
• Boaz Keysar, Israeli-born, US psycholinguist
• Kurt Koffka, German cognitive theorist and psychologist
• Michael Kubovy, US cognitive scientist
• Thomas Kuhn, US Philosopher of Science
• Eric H Lenneberg, US Neurobiologist
• Jerome Y Lettvin, US Cognitive-Neuroscientist
• Daniel Levitin, US Cognitive scientist/neuroscientist
• Kurt Lewin, US Cognitive theorist and psychologist
• Richard Lewontin, anthropologist
• Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist
• Gary Marcus, US Cognitive scientist
• Ellen Markman, US developmental psychologist
• Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
• Andrew Meltzoff, US Cognitive-developmental psychologist
• Carolyn Mervis, US cognitive psychologist, developmental neuroscientist
• Stanley Milgram, US social psyhologist
• Mortimer Mishkin, neuroscientist
• Jeffrey Mogil, Canadian neurogeneticist
• Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
• Jakob Moreno, German Psychologist
• David Navon, Israeli cognitive scientist
• Ulrich Neisser, US cognitive psychologist
• Isabelle Peretz, Belgian-born cognitive neuroscientist
• Fritz Perls, Gestalt Psychologist
• Steven Pinker, Canadian Cognitive Evolutionary psychologist
• Michael Posner, US Cognitive Scientist, cognitive neuroscientist
• Karl Pribram, US Cognitive Scientist
• Anatol Rapoport, Russian born American Mathematical psychologist
• Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• Irvin Rock, US perception, Gestalt psychologist
• Lee Ross, US social cognition psychologist
• Oliver Sacks, British-US neurologist and author
• Jenny Saffran, US developmental psychologist
• Ivan Sag, US linguist
• Edward Sapir, US Linguistic Anthropologist
• Stanley Schachter, US psychologist
• Herbert Simon, US Cognitive Psychologist
• Dan Slobin, US cognitive psychologist
• John Sloboda, British cognitive psychologist (Jewish mother)
• Robert Sternberg, US psychologist
• Saul Sternberg, US Mathematical psychologist
• Paula Tallal, US cognitive neuroscientist
• Amos Tversky, Israeli Cognitive psychologist
• Barbara Tversky, US Cognitive psychologist
• Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist
• Brian Wandell, US perception psychologist
• Norbert Weiner, Austrian - American Mathematical Logician
• Terry Winograd, US cognitive scientist
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosophical psychologist

Computer scientists

See Computer science

• Andrew Grove Hungarian-born US co-founder and chairman of Intel corporation
• Michael O. Rabin, US computer scientist

Mathematicians

See Mathematics

• Georg Cantor, German-Russian Mathematical Logician
• Paul Erdös, Hungarian mathematician
• Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, German born Israeli mathematician
• Karl Gustav Jacobi, German mathematician
• Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician, creator of fractal geometry
• Herman Minkowski, German mathematician
• Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician, apperently solved Poincaré conjecture
• Carl Sagan, US astronomer
• Saharon Shelah, Israeli-US mathematician
• Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-US mathematician, worked on the hydrogen bomb
• John von Neumann, Hungarian-US mathematician and computer scientist
• Andre Weil, French mathematician
• Doron Zeilberger, Israeli-US mathematician, methods used in computer algebra software
• Alfred Tarski, Polish Mathematical Logician

Philosophy and academic

See Philosophy and Academia

• Uriel Acosta, Potuguese philosopher (raised Catholic)
• Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst
• Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, (father became Protestant, mother Catholic)
• Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist
• Ernst Bloch, German philosopher
• Harold Bloom, US academic
• Martin Buber, German and Israeli philosopher
• Hermann Cohen, German Jewish Kantian philosopher
• Morris Raphael Cohen
• Norman Cohn, British historian
• Noam Chomsky, US linguist, political writer
• Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
• Emile Durkheim, French sociologist
• Erik Erikson, US psychologist (mother was Jewish, biological father was Danish)
• Norman Finkelstein, US academic
• Sigmund Freud, Austro-Hungarian Viennese "Father of psychoanalysis"
• Moshe Greenberg, Israeli scholar of Semitic languages and Bible
• Lazar Gulkowitsch, Russian-German philosopher
• Zellig Harris, US linguist
• Bernard-Henri Levy, French philosopher, journalist, film director
• Samuel Hirsch, German rabbi and philosopher
• Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist
• Irving Howe, US historian
• Edmund Husserl, Austro-Hungarian Viennese and German philosopher and Holocaust victim
• Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
• Israel Kirzner, US economist
• Joseph Klausner, Lithuanian born Israeli scholar of religion
• Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian born French philosopher
• Deborah Lipstadt, US historian
• Maimonides, Spanish-North African philosopher, doctor, rabbi
• Herbert Marcuse, German-born US philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
• Abraham Maslow, US psychologist
• Benny Morris, Israeli philosopher
• Robert Nozick, US Political Philosopher, critic of John Rawls A Theory of Justice.
• Nostradamus French philosopher, (raised Catholic)
• Fritz Perls, German psychologist
• Philo, Alexandrian (Egypt) philosopher
• Daniel Pipes, US Mideast and Islam scholar and researcher
• Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
• Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian
• Neil Postman, US Media Critic
• 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, Austrian philosopher (father's parents became Protestants, mother was Catholic gentile)
• Ruth Westheimer, German-born, Israeli-American sex expert
• Howard Zinn, US Historian
• Otto Weininger, German philosopher
• Max Stirner,German philosopher
• Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist
• Amotz Zehavy, Israeli Zoologist, revolutionized the theory of Evolution

Physicists

See Physics

• Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-born Israeli professor of theoretical physics
• Niels Henrik David Bohr, Danish-born, Swedish-US physicist, (mother was Jewish)
• Herman Branover, Russian-Israeli physicist
• Albert Einstein, German-Swiss, US physicist.
• Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-British, US-Israeli, engineer, founded Feldenkrais Method
• Richard Feynman, US Nobel prize winning physicist
• Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
• Murray Gell-Mann, US physicist
• Fritz Haber, German chemist
• Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born US theoretical chemist
• Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and string theory pioneer
• Lev Landau, Soviet theoretical physicist
• Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist
• Robert Oppenheimer, US physicist, leader of the Manhattan project
• Yakov I. Perelman, Russian author of popular science books
• Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer, showed that black hole is a possible solution of general relativity's equations
• Giulio Racah, Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician
• Leo Szilard Hungarian-US physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
• Edward Teller, Hungarian-US physicist, worked on the hydrogen bomb
• Steven Weinberg US Nobel prize winning physicist