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List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.
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Physicists
- Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor[1]
- Edward Neville da Costa Andrade[2]
- Sir Michael Berry,[3] mathematical physicist[4]
- Moses Blackman[5]
- David Bohm,[6] physicist, philosopher
- Sir Hermann Bondi,[7] Austrian-born British cosmologist
- Max Born,[8][9] physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism)[10]
- Samuel Devons, physicist[4]
- Cyril Domb,[3] physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
- Paul Eisler,[11][12] inventor of the printed circuit board
- Michael Fisher[3]
- Otto Robert Frisch[13][14]
- Herbert Frohlich[15]
- Dennis Gabor,[16][17][18] Nobel Prize for Physics 1971
- Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons,[19] scientist and inventor
- Jeffrey Goldstone[4]
- Ian Grant[4]
- Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist[20]
- Herbert Huppert, 1987[4]
- Brian David Josephson,[17] physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize
- George Kalmus, 1988[4]
- Andrew Keller[21]
- Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987[4]
- Rudolf Kompfner,[22] invented the traveling wave tube
- Hans Kronberger,[23] nuclear physicist
- Nicholas Kurti,[24] physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67[25]
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell,[26] physicist and politician
- Henry Lipson[15]
- Sir Ben Lockspeiser[15]
- Stanley Mandelstam[4]
- Kurt Mendelssohn[27]
- Leon Mestel, astronomer[28]
- F.R. Nunes Nabarro[4]
- Rudolf Peierls[29]
- Michael Pepper[4]
- Sir Joseph Rotblat,[30] physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
- Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber
- Sir Arthur Schuster[31]
- Dennis Sciama, FRS,[3] cosmologist
- David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
- Sir Francis Simon[32]
- David Tabor[4]
- Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist[33]
- Felix Weinberg[4]
- Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984[4]
- Alec David Young, aero-engineer[4]
- John Ziman[3]
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Chemists
- Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize[34]
- Sir Arnold Burgen[4]
- Sir Roy Calne[4]
- Jack David Dunitz,[35] chemist
- Martin Fleischmann,[36] chemist
- Rosalind Franklin,[37] physical chemist and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA
- Eugen Glueckauf[14]
- Sir Ian Heilbron[38]
- Walter Heitler[35]
- Sir Aaron Klug,[39] physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel Prize[40]
- Harold Kroto,[41] discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
- Raphael Meldola[42]
- Alfred Mond, chemist[43]
- Ludwig Mond,[44] chemist and industrialist
- Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist[45]
- Albert Neuberger,[46] chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger
- Friedrich Paneth[47]
- Max Perutz,[48] molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize
- Michael Polanyi,[49] chemist; naturalised British 1939[50]
- Ralph Raphael[29]
- Michael Rossmann[35]
- Jeremy Sanders
- Anthony Segal[4]
- Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist[4]
- Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry[51]
- Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist[52]
- Chaim Weizmann,[53] acetone production; first president of Israel
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Biologists
- Saul Adler[54]
- Ephraim Anderson,[55] microbiologist
- Charlotte Auerbach[5]
- Dame Val Beral,[56] breast cancer researcher
- Walter Bodmer,[57] geneticist
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born,[58] professor of pharmacology
- Sydney Brenner,[59] molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize
- Leslie Brent[60]
- Edith Bülbring,[61] pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
- Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize[62]
- Sir Philip Cohen,[46] biologist
- Sydney Cohen, pathologist[63]
- Emanuel Mendes da Costa,[64] 18th-century botanist
- Raymond Dwek, biologist[4]
- Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus[4]
- Wilhelm Feldberg,[5] pharmacologist
- Sir Alan Fersht,[35] protein folding
- Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist[65]
- Ian Glynn[4]
- Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria[66]
- Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield,[67] neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)
- Hans Gruneberg,[68] biologist
- Sir Ludwig Guttmann,[69] neurologist
- Sir Henry Harris[70]
- Philip D'Arcy Hart,[71] medical researcher
- Sir Gabriel Horn[4]
- Alick Isaacs,[72][73] virologist, interferon
- David Ish-Horowicz[4]
- Sir Bernard Katz,[74] biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize
- David Keilin,[46] enzymologist
- Sir Hans Kornberg[4]
- Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist[75]
- Sir Hans Adolf Krebs,[76] biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize
- Sir John Krebs,[77] zoologist
- Roland Levinsky,[78] biologist
- Michael Levitt[46]
- Hans Lissmann[29]
- Joel Mandelstam[4]
- Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist[79]
- César Milstein,[80] immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize
- Leslie Orgel,[35] evolutionary biologist
- Guido Pontecorvo[29]
- Juda Quastel[46]
- Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983[4][81]
- Steven Rose,[82] biologist
- Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)
- Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild,[83] entomologist
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild[84]
- Oliver Sacks,[85] neurologist and author
- Isaac de Sequeira Samuda,[86] first Jewish FRS, elected 1727
- Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist
- John Vane,[35] pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)
- Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist[4]
- Robert Winston, Baron Winston,[87] fertility expert and broadcaster
- Lewis Wolpert,[88] developmental biologist and broadcaster
- John Yudkin, physiologist and nutritionist
- Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist[89]
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Mathematicians and statisticians
- Abraham Manie Adelstein,[90] statistician
- Hertha Ayrton,[90] mathematician and engineer
- Laurence Baxter, statistician[91]
- Abram Besicovitch,[92] Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
- Selig Brodetsky,[93] mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Jacob Bronowski,[94] mathematician and broadcaster
- Paul Cohn, algebraist[95]
- H.E. Daniels,[90] statistician
- Philip Dawid,[96] statistician
- Arthur Erdelyi,[97] mathematician
- Albrecht Frohlich[98]
- David Glass,[99] demographer
- Sir Samuel Goldman,[100] British government statistician
- Sydney Goldstein,[101] expert on fluid mechanics
- Benjamin Gompertz,[102] mathematician
- Eugene Grebenik,[103] demographer
- Steven Haberman,[104] professor of actuarial science
- John Hajnal, demographer[34]
- Hans Heilbronn[105]
- Thomas Körner, mathematician[106]
- Ruth Lawrence,[107] mathematician and child prodigy
- Leone Levi,[108] statistician
- Kurt Mahler, mathematician[4]
- Sir Claus Moser,[109] statistician
- Louis Mordell,[110] number theorist
- Bernhard Neumann[4]
- Richard Rado,[111] mathematician
- Klaus Roth,[112] mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal
- Bernard Silverman, statistician[113]
- David Spiegelhalter, statistician[114]
- James Joseph Sylvester,[115] mathematician
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Computer scientists
- Samson Abramsky, computer scientist[116]
- David Deutsch,[3] quantum computing pioneer
- I.J. Good,[117] cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer
- David Levy,[118] computer chess expert
- Leo Marks,[119] cryptographer and screenwriter
- Max Newman,[117] mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)
- Gordon Plotkin,[117] computer scientist
- Leslie Valiant,[117] computer scientist; parallel computation
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Economists
- Lord Bauer,[120] economist
- Samuel Brittan, economist
- Charles Goodhart,[121] Bank of England economist
- Noreena Hertz,[122] economist and activist
- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn,[123] economist: multiplier
- Nicholas Kaldor,[123] economist
- Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher
- Israel Kirzner,[124] economist (UK-born)
- Ludwig Lachmann, economist[125]
- Harold Laski, economist[126]
- Alexander Nove, economist[127]
- Sigbert Prais, economist[34]
- David Ricardo,[128] economist (converted to Quakerism)
- Arthur Seldon,[129] economist
- Sir Hans Singer, economist[130]
- Piero Sraffa,[123] economist
- Lord Nicholas Stern, economist[34][131]
- Basil Yamey, economist[34][131]
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Social scientists
- Roy Clive Abraham,[132] linguist
- Mark Abrams,[132] sociologist
- Michael Balint,[133] psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
- Zygmunt Bauman,[134] sociologist
- Basil Bernstein,[135] linguist
- Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics[34][136]
- Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
- Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory[34]
- Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist[137]
- Norbert Elias,[138] sociologist
- Herman Finer,[139] political scientist
- Samuel Finer,[140] political scientist
- Sir Moses I. Finley,[141] historian and sociologist
- Meyer Fortes, anthropologist[142]
- Eduard Fraenkel, philologist[143]
- Anna Freud,[144] child psychoanalyst
- Norman Geras,[145] professor of Government[146]
- Morris Ginsberg[147]
- Max Gluckman, anthropologist[148]
- Frieda Goldman-Eisler, psycholinguist[149]
- Theodor Goldstücker,[150] orientalist
- Jean Gottmann,[151] professor of geography, Oxford University
- Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
- Paul Hirst,[152] social theorist (Jewish mother)
- Marie Jahoda,[153] psychology of discrimination
- Melanie Klein,[154] child psychoanalyst
- Paul Klemperer, economist
- Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish[34]
- Steven Lukes, political scientist[34]
- Ashley Montagu,[155] anthropologist and humanist
- Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE
- Isaac Schapera, anthropologist[34]
- Edward Ullendorff, linguist[34]
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See also
References
- JYB = Jewish Year Book
Footnotes
External links
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