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List of Jewish scientists and philosophers
List of Jewish scientists and philosophers:
Main article: List of Jews.
- See also List of Jewish Nobel Prize winners.
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Bio-chemists
- Karl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist
- Hans Krebs German-born English biologist, discovered Krebs Cycle
- Gregory Pincus, U.S. biologist, inventor of the birth-control pill
- Jonas Salk, U.S. 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-U.S. 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, U.S. social psychologist
- Evan Balaban , U.S. biologist, neuroscientist
- Aaron T. Beck, U.S. cognitive-semantic therapist
- Jacob Beck , U.S. perception psychologist
- Ursula Bellugi , U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
- Leonard Bloomfield, U.S. linguist
- Franz Boas, linguistic anthropologist
- Albert S. Bregman , Canadian cognitive scientist
- Egon Brunswik , Mathematical Psychologist
- Ruth Cohn , German-born psychologist
- Noam Chomsky, U.S. psycholinguist
- Diana Deutsch, British-born, U.S. cognitive psychologist
- Carolyn Drake , British developmental psychologist
- Gerald Edelman, U.S. Neuroscientist
- Steven Engel , U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
- Erik Eriksson , Danish psychoanalyst
- Martha Farah , U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
- Leon Festinger, U.S. cognitive social psychologist
- Jerry Fodor, U.S. cognitive psychologist
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychoanalyst and logotherapist
- Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
- Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
- Erich Fromm, German psychoanalyst
- Norman Gerschwind , neuroscientist
- Sam Glucksberg , U.S. psycholinguist
- Erving Goffman, American social psychologist
- Lewis R. Goldberg , U.S. personality psychologist
- Allison Gopnik , Canadian-born U.S. cognitive scientist
- Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist
- Ervin R. Hafter , U.S. psychoacoustician
- Fritz Heider, German mathematical psychologist
- Richard Ivry , U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
- Ray Jackendoff, U.S. cognitive scientist
- Daniel Kahneman, Israeli cognitive psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in economics
- Boaz Keysar , Israeli-born, U.S. psycholinguist
- 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
- Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist
- Gary Marcus , U.S. cognitive scientist
- Ellen Markman , U.S. developmental psychologist
- Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
- Andrew Meltzoff , U.S. cognitive-developmental psychologist
- Carolyn Mervis , U.S. cognitive psychologist, developmental neuroscientist
- Stanley Milgram, U.S. social psychologist
- Mortimer Mishkin , neuroscientist
- Jeffrey Mogil , Canadian neurogeneticist
- Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
- Jakob Moreno , German Psychologist
- David Navon , Israeli cognitive scientist
- Ulrich Neisser , U.S. cognitive psychologist
- Isabelle Peretz , Belgian-born cognitive neuroscientist
- Fritz Perls, Gestalt psychologist
- Steven Pinker, Canadian cognitive evolutionary psychologist
- Michael Posner , U.S. cognitive scientist, cognitive neuroscientist
- Karl Pribram, U.S. cognitive scientist
- Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
- Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- Irvin Rock , U.S. perception, Gestalt psychologist
- Robert Rosenthal , U.S. social psychologist
- Lee Ross, U.S. social cognition psychologist
- Oliver Sacks, British-U.S. neurologist and author
- Jenny Saffran , U.S. developmental psychologist
- Ivan Sag, U.S. linguist
- Edward Sapir, U.S. Linguistic Anthropologist
- Stanley Schachter , U.S. psychologist
- Herbert Simon, U.S. Cognitive Psychologist
- Dan Slobin , U.S. cognitive psychologist
- John Sloboda , British cognitive psychologist (Jewish mother)
- Robert Sternberg, U.S. psychologist
- Saul Sternberg , U.S. mathematical psychologist
- Paula Tallal , U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
- Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive psychologist
- Barbara Tversky , U.S. cognitive psychologist
- Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist
- Brian Wandell , U.S. perception psychologist
- Terry Winograd, U.S. cognitive scientist
Computer scientists
See Computer science
- Sergey Brin Russian-born U.S. co-founder of Google search engine
- Andrew Grove Hungarian-born U.S. co-founder and chairman of Intel corporation
- Michael O. Rabin, US computer scientist
- John von Neumann, Hungarian-U.S. mathematician and computer scientist
- Norbert Weiner, Austrian-U.S. Mathematical Logician and cybernetician
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
- Emmy Noether, German mathematician
- Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician, apperently solved Poincaré conjecture
- Saharon Shelah, Israeli-U.S. mathematician
- Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-U.S. mathematician, worked on the hydrogen bomb
- John von Neumann, Hungarian-U.S. mathematician and computer scientist; converted to Catholocism on death bed
- Andre Weil, French mathematician
- Norbert Weiner, Austrian-U.S. Mathematical Logician and cybernetician
- Doron Zeilberger, Israeli-U.S. mathematician, methods used in computer algebra software
- Alfred Tarski, Polish mathematical logician
Philosophers and other academics
See Philosophy and Academia
- Uriel Acosta, Portuguese philosopher (raised Catholic)
- Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, (father became Protestant, mother Catholic)
- Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist
- Isaiah Berlin, Russian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas
- Ernst Bloch, German philosopher
- Harold Bloom, U.S. academic
- Martin Buber, German and Israeli philosopher
- Hermann Cohen, German philosopher
- Morris Raphael Cohen
- Norman Cohn, British historian
- Noam Chomsky, U.S. linguist, political writer
- Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
- Emile Durkheim, French sociologist
- 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
- Sigmund Freud, Austro-Hungarian Viennese "Father of psychoanalysis"
- Moshe Greenberg, Israeli scholar of Semitic languages and Bible
- Lazar Gulkowitsch, Russian-German philosopher
- Zellig Harris, U.S. linguist
- Bernard-Henri Levy, French philosopher, journalist, film director
- Samuel Hirsch, German rabbi and philosopher
- Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist
- Irving Howe, U.S. historian
- Edmund Husserl, Austro-Hungarian Viennese and German philosopher and Holocaust victim
- Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
- Israel Kirzner, U.S. economist
- Joseph Klausner, Lithuanian-born Israeli scholar of religion
- Thomas Kuhn, U.S. philosopher of Science
- Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-born French philosopher
- Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. historian
- Maimonides, Spanish-North African philosopher, doctor, rabbi
- Herbert Marcuse, German-born U.S. philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
- Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist
- Benny Morris, Israeli philosopher
- Robert Nozick, U.S. 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, U.S. 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)
- Ruth Westheimer, German-born, Israeli-American sex expert
- Howard Zinn, U.S. 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 Nobel prize winning physicist, (mother was Jewish)
- Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (partial jewish ancestry)
- David Bohm, U.S. physicist
- Herman Branover , Russian-Israeli physicist
- Albert Einstein, German-Swiss, U.S. physicist.
- Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-British, U.S.-Israeli, engineer, founded Feldenkrais Method
- Richard Feynman, U.S. Nobel prize winning physicist
- Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
- Murray Gell-Mann, U.S. physicist
- Donald A. Glaser, U.S. physicist, inventor of the bubble chamber
- Fritz Haber, German chemist
- Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born U.S. theoretical chemist
- Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and string theory pioneer
- Lev Landau, Soviet theoretical physicist
- Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
- Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist, "father of the atomic bomb"
- Yakov I. Perelman, Russian author of popular science books
- Giulio Racah, Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician
- Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer
- Mário Schenberg, Brazilian theoretical physicist
- Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer, showed that black hole is a possible solution of general relativity's equations
- Emilio G. Segrč, Italian-U.S. physicist, discovered anti-proton
- Julian Schwinger, U.S. Nobel Prize winning physicist
- Leo Szilard Hungarian-U.S. physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
- Edward Teller, Hungarian-U.S. physicist, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
- Steven Weinberg U.S. Nobel prize-winning physicist
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