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.
Physicists Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctorOxford Dictionary of National Biography, art. Alfonsi, Petrus Edward Neville da Costa AndradeJYB 1977, p.207 Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicistJYB 2005 p214 Moses BlackmanJYB 1977 p207 David Bohm, physicist, philosopher Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism)JYB 2000 p212 - list of Jewish Nobel Prizewinners Samuel Devons, physicist Cyril Domb, physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists Paul Eisler,http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~gjzcallo/pcb%20manufacture.ppt inventor of the printed circuit board Michael Fisher Otto Robert FrischJYB 1980 p182 Herbert FrohlichJYB 1990 p201 Dennis Gabor,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "In 1946 Dennis Gabor became a naturalized British citizen." Nobel Prize for Physics 1971 Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, scientist and inventor Jeffrey Goldstone Ian Grant Sir Peter Hirsch, physicistJYB 2005 p213, 214 Herbert Huppert, 1987 Brian David Josephson, physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize George Kalmus, 1988 Andrew Keller Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987 Rudolf Kompfner,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born of Jewish parents in Vienna" invented the traveling wave tube Hans Kronberger,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents" nuclear physicist Nicholas Kurti,http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924108-2.pdf physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "study at the university was open to him, despite being a Jew ... Kurti became a naturalized British citizen just before the outbreak of the Second World War" Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist and politician Henry Lipson Sir Ben Lockspeiser Stanley Mandelstam Kurt MendelssohnEncyclopaedia Judaica 13:492 Leon Mestel, astronomerWho's Who entry & JYB 2000 p211 F.R. Nunes Nabarro Rudolf PeierlsJYB 1995 p193 Michael Pepper Sir Joseph Rotblat,http://www.pugwash.org/publication/obits/obit-rotblat-press-latimes.ht physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber Sir Arthur SchusterEncyclopedia Judaica, 14:1012 Dennis Sciama, FRS, cosmologist David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193) Sir Francis SimonEncyclopedia Judaica, 14:1578 David Tabor Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopistConcise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants" Felix Weinberg Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984 Alec David Young, aero-engineer John Ziman
Chemists
Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel PrizeJYB 2005 p215 Sir Arnold Burgen Sir Roy Calne Jack David Dunitz, chemist Martin Fleischmann, chemist Rosalind Franklin, physical chemist and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA Eugen Glueckauf Sir Ian HeilbronEncyclopedia Judaica 8:262 Walter Heitler Sir Aaron Klug, physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel PrizeJYB 2000 p211-2 Harold Kroto, discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish) Raphael MeldolaEncyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290 Alfred Mond, chemistEncyclopaedia Judaica 4:1298, 12:241 Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologistEncyclopaedia Judaica, art. Mond Albert Neuberger, chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger Friedrich PanethEncyclopaedia Judaica 13:54 Max Perutz, molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize Michael Polanyi, chemist; naturalised British 1939Dictionary of National Biography Ralph Raphael Michael Rossmann Jeremy Sanders Anthony Segal Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistryEncyclopedia Judaica, 15:670 Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologistFriedenwald, H. (1946), Jewish Luminaries in Medical History Chaim Weizmann, acetone production; first president of Israel
Biologists
Saul AdlerJYB 1960 p216 Ephraim Anderson, microbiologist Charlotte Auerbach Walter Bodmer, geneticist Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, professor of pharmacology Sydney Brenner, molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize Leslie BrentThe Times, 6/7/06 p34: "A Call by Jews in Britain" (advert signed by 300 British Jews) Edith Bülbring,http://hardy.amnesty.org.uk/images/ul/f/famous_refugees_2.pdf pharmacologist (Jewish mother) Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize Sir Philip Cohen, biologist Sydney Cohen, pathologistJYB 2005 p214, 230 Emanuel Mendes da Costa,http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/788ywpyvxn1yf4uqva6q/contributions/a/8/q/1/a8q13avg8w7tqwgx.pdf 18th-century botanist Raymond Dwek, biologist Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus Wilhelm Feldberg, pharmacologist Sir Alan Fersht, protein folding Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist Ian Glynn Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyriaJewish Chronicle Obituary, 25 October 2007 Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father) Hans Gruneberg,JYB 1967 p208 biologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, neurologist Sir Henry HarrisEncyclopedia Judaica 4:138 Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher Sir Gabriel Horn Alick Isaacs, virologist, interferon David Ish-Horowicz Sir Bernard Katz, biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize David Keilin, enzymologist Sir Hans Kornberg Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize Sir John Krebs,Jewish Chronicle, 8 January 1999, p.6: "Three Jewish knights feature among the New Year honours: ... Nichola Serota ... John Krebs ... Victor Blank." zoologist Roland Levinsky,"Driving force of city university's growth": Western Daily Press 19 July 2006: "the family is Jewish". biologist Michael Levitt Hans Lissmann Joel Mandelstam Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologistJYB 2005 213 César Milstein, immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize Leslie Orgel, evolutionary biologist Guido Pontecorvo Juda Quastel Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983JYB 2000 p211 Steven Rose, biologist Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214) Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, entomologist Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildJYB 1990 p199, 202, 259 Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, first Jewish FRS, elected 1727 Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist John Vane, pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father) Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist Robert Winston, Baron Winston, fertility expert and broadcaster Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist and broadcaster John Yudkin, physiologist and nutritionist Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionistJYB 1965 p214
Mathematicians and statisticians Abraham Manie Adelstein,article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography statistician Hertha Ayrton, mathematician and engineer Laurence Baxter, statisticianDeath notices in Jewish Chronicle, 15 November 1996 p 31; confirms Sidney Hart was his uncle Abram Besicovitch, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite) Selig Brodetsky, mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and broadcaster Paul Cohn, algebraist H.E. Daniels, statistician Philip Dawid, statistician Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician Albrecht Frohlich David Glass,Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, 6 Oct. 1978, p.32 demographer Sir Samuel Goldman,Obituary in LSE Magazine, Vol 19 no.2 Winter 2007, p.45 British government statistician Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician Eugene Grebenik, demographer Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial science John Hajnal, demographer Hans HeilbronnJYB 1977, p207 Thomas Körner, mathematicianJewish parents: Stephan Körner (JYB 2005 p215) and Edith Körner Ruth Lawrence, mathematician and child prodigy Leone Levi, statistician Kurt Mahler, mathematician Sir Claus Moser, statistician Louis Mordell, number theorist Bernhard Neumann Richard Rado, mathematician Klaus Roth, mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal Bernard Silverman, statistician David Spiegelhalter, statisticianJYB 2007 p. 198 James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician
Computer scientists
Samson Abramsky, computer scientistJYB 2007 p198 David Deutsch, quantum computing pioneer I.J. Good, cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer David Levy, computer chess expert Leo Marks, cryptographer and screenwriter Max Newman, mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father) Gordon Plotkin, computer scientist Leslie Valiant, computer scientist; parallel computation
Economists Lord Bauer, economist Samuel Brittan, economist Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist Noreena Hertz, economist and activist Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier Nicholas Kaldor, economist Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born) Ludwig Lachmann, economistHayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek - Pg 145 Harold Laski, economistThe New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, p 1182–3 Alexander Nove, economistJYB 1990 p202 Sigbert Prais, economist David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism) Arthur Seldon, economist Sir Hans Singer, economistThe Economist, 11 March 2006 p95: "born a Jew" Piero Sraffa, economist Lord Nicholas Stern, economist Basil Yamey, economistJYB 2005 p315
Social scientists
Roy Clive Abraham,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography linguist Mark Abrams, sociologist Michael Balint, psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism) Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist Basil Bernstein, linguist Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politicsJYB 2005 p223 Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist Norbert Elias,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Elias, as a Jew, sought refuge first in Paris (1933–5), and then in London (from 1935), eventually becoming a British citizen in 1952" sociologist Herman Finer, political scientist Samuel Finer,Jewish Chronicle obituary, 25 June 1993, p.15 political scientist Sir Moses I. Finley,Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. historian and sociologist Meyer Fortes, anthropologistJYB 1980 p183 Eduard Fraenkel, philologistOxford Dictionary of National Biography: "An unbaptized Jew" Anna Freud, child psychoanalyst Norman Geras, professor of Government"You are a Jewish, Zimbabwean, Mancunian philosopher... I have lived in Manchester more than half my life and am very much at home here." Morris Ginsberg Max Gluckman, anthropologistJYB 1975 p213 Frieda Goldman-Eisler, psycholinguist Theodor Goldstücker,Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "of Jewish parentage" orientalist Jean Gottmann,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "the only child of prosperous Jewish parents" professor of geography, Oxford University Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249) Paul Hirst, social theorist (Jewish mother) Marie Jahoda, psychology of discrimination Josephine Klein, psychologist, psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, child psychoanalyst Paul Klemperer, economist Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish Steven Lukes, political scientist Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and humanist Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE Isaac Schapera, anthropologist Edward Ullendorff, linguist
See also Lists of Jews List of British Jews
References JYB = Jewish Year Book
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