List of Jewish American physicists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American physicists.
For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Alexei Abrikosov, condenced matter physics, Nobel Prize (2003) (Jewish mother; naturalized citizen)
- Ralph Alpher, background radiation, nucleosynthesis
- John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist
- Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) (Jewish mother)
- Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952) (naturalized citizen)
- David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science
- Gregory Breit, physicist
- Samuel T. Cohen, physicist
- Albert Einstein (German), theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) (naturalized citizen)
- Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics
- Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
- Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race [1][2][3])
- David Finkelstein, physicist
- James Franck, physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)
- Edward Fredkin, digital physicist
- Jerome Friedman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1990)
- Murray Gell-Mann, quarks, Nobel Prize (1969)
- Donald A. Glaser, bubble chamber, Nobel Prize (1960)
- Sheldon Glashow, physicist, Nobel Prize (1979)
- Roy Glauber, physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
- Herbert Goldstein, Columbia physicist, author of standard textbook on classical mechanics
- Samuel Goudsmit, electron spin
- Brian Greene, string theorist
- David Gross, string theorist, Nobel Prize (2004)
- Alan Guth, cosmic inflation
- Eugene Guth, polymer physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics
- Robert Herman, cosmology, background radiation, operations research
- Robert Hofstadter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)
- Robert Jastrow, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist
- Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist
- Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer
- Joseph B. Keller, mathematical physics, wave propagation, National Medal Of Science, Wolf Prize
- Daniel Kleppner, atomic research
- Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)
- Rudolf Kompfner, engineer and physicist
- Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and cosmologist
- Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist [4]
- Rolf Landauer, physicist, information theory
- Leon M. Lederman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
- David Morris Lee, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
- Fritz London, quantum chemistry
- Theodore Maiman, first operable laser
- Albert A. Michelson, speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907)
- Alexander Migdal, theoretical high energy physics (naturalized citizen)
- Ben Roy Mottelson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)
- Frank Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Robert)
- Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Frank)
- Douglas D. Osheroff, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)
- Jeremiah P. Ostriker, astrophysicist
- Abraham Pais, historian of science
- Wolfgang Pauli, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1945) (Jewish father, half-Jewish mother; naturalized citizen)
- Arno Allan Penzias, background radiation, Nobel Prize (1978)
- Martin Lewis Perl, physicist, Nobel Prize (1995)
- H. David Politzer, physicist, Nobel Prize (2004)
- Alexander Polyakov, theoretical high energy physics (naturalized citizen)
- Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
- Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize (1944) (naturalized citizen)
- Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer
- Mark G. Raizen, physicist, quantum physics
- Sidney Redner, statistical physics
- L. Rafael Reif, Venezuelan-born American electrical engineer, president of MIT
- Frederick Reines, neutrino experiment, Nobel Prize (1995)
- Burton Richter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1976)
- Carl Sagan, astronomer and science popularizer
- Arthur Schawlow, laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize (1981) (Jewish father)
- Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
- Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
- Emilio G. Segrè, anti-proton, Nobel Prize (1959) (naturalized citizen)
- Mikhail Shifman, theoretical particle physics (naturalized citizen)
- Lee Smolin, loop quantum gravity
- Alan Sokal, Sokal affair
- H. Eugene Stanley, econophysics, phase transitions, critical phenomena
- Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
- Otto Stern, physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
- Andrew Strominger, string theory
- Leonard Susskind, string theory (Jewish father)
- Leó Szilárd, nuclear physicist (naturalized citizen)
- Edward Teller, nuclear physicist
- Arkady Vainshtein, theoretical high energy physics (naturalized citizen)
- Alexander Vilenkin, cosmology (naturalized citizen)
- Steven Weinberg, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons[5]
- Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
- Edward Witten, mathematical physicist, Fields Medal (1990), founder of M-Theory, only physicist to win Fields Medal, and currently the driving force behind theoretical/mathematical physics
- George Zweig, quarks
See also
References
- ^ Don't You have Time to Think?, Richard P. Feynman (Edited by Michelle Feynman), Penguin Book, 2006, pages 234-236, in letters answering Tina Levitan, and considering her book Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize an "adventure in prejudice"
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/12/bofey12.xml
- ^ http://www.dimaggio.org/Heroes/richard_feynman.htm
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [3] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."