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.

Bio-chemists

See Biology and Chemistry

• 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. Segrè, 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