List of British Jewish scientists
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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.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.
Physicists
- Petrus AlphonsiPetrus AlphonsiPetrus Alphonsi was a Jewish Spanish writer and astronomer, and polemicist, who converted to Christianity....
, Spanish-born astronomer and doctor - Edward Neville da Costa AndradeEdward AndradeEdward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS was an English physicist, writer, and poet.-Background:Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade...
(JYB 1977 p207) - Sir Michael Berry http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html, mathematical physicist (JYB 2005 p214)
- Moses BlackmanMoses BlackmanMoses Blackman was a South African-born British crystallographer.His father was a minister of religion, Rev. Joseph Blackman.-Education:...
(JYB 1977 p207) - David BohmDavid BohmDavid Joseph Bohm FRS was an American-born British quantum physicist who contributed to theoretical physics, philosophy, neuropsychology, and the Manhattan Project.-Youth and college:...
, physicist, philosopher - Sir Hermann BondiHermann BondiSir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/09/13/db1301.xml, Austrian-born British cosmologist - Max BornMax BornMax Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Born.html, http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/14/12/8, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to LutheranismLutheranismLutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...
) (JYB 2000 p212 - list of Jewish Nobel Prizewinners) - Samuel DevonsSamuel DevonsSamuel Devons FRS was a British physicist and science historian.-Biography:Devons, son of a Lithuanian immigrant, was born in Bangor, Wales. When he turned 16, he was awarded a scholarship for physics at Trinity College in Cambridge...
, physicist (JYB 2005 p214) - Cyril DombCyril DombCyril Domb is a physicist best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He is also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on Science and Judaism...
http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html, physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists - Paul EislerPaul EislerPaul Eisler was an Austrian inventor born in Vienna. Among his innovations were the printed circuit board.- Early life and education :...
http://www1.totallyjewish.com/entertainment/features_and_reviews/?content_id=293 http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~gjzcallo/pcb%20manufacture.ppt, inventor of printed circuit boardPrinted circuit boardA printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring... - Michael FisherMichael FisherMichael Ellis Fisher is an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions...
http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html - Otto Robert FrischOtto Robert FrischOtto Robert Frisch , Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.- Overview :...
http://www.nndb.com/people/119/000099819/ (JYB 1980 p182) - Herbert FrohlichHerbert FröhlichHerbert Fröhlich was a German-born British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society....
(JYB 1990 p201) - Dennis GaborDennis GaborDennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....
http://www.ejewish.info/resources/resourceCategoryDisplay.aspx?categoryid=370&rsid=96 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html Nobel Prize for Physics 1971; British.
- Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyDictionary of National BiographyThe Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...
: "In 1946 Dennis Gabor became a naturalized British citizen."- Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-SalomonsDavid Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-SalomonsSir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet was a scientific author and barrister.The son of Philip Salomons of Brighton, and Emma, daughter of Jacob Montefiore of Sydney, he succeeded to the Baronetcy originally granted to his uncle David Salomons in 1873...
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/salomons-museum/tree/d-lionel-salomons.asp, scientist and inventor - Jeffrey GoldstoneJeffrey GoldstoneJeffrey Goldstone is a British-born theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977....
(JYB 2005 p214) - Ian GrantIan GrantIan Grant is a British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a founding member of University of Oxford's Department of Theoretical Chemistry in 1972....
(JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Peter HirschPeter HirschSir Peter Bernhard Hirsch FRS is a leading figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals....
, physicist (JYB 2005 p213, 214) - Herbert HuppertHerbert HuppertHerbert Eric Huppert is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.He was born and received...
, 1987 (JYB 2005 p214) - Brian David JosephsonBrian David JosephsonBrian David Josephson, FRS is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html, physicist, Nobel Prize (1973) - George KalmusGeorge KalmusGeorge Ernest Kalmus, CBE, FRS is a British particle physicist.Kalmus was educated at St Albans County Grammar School and University College, London....
, 1988 (JYB 2005 p214) - Andrew KellerAndrew KellerAndrew Keller FRS was a British polymer scientist. He was Research Professor in Polymer Science, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, 1969-91, then Professor Emeritus....
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=26&dsqSearch=((text)='jewish') - Olga KennardOlga KennardOlga Kennard, née Weisz is a British crystallographer, and was Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre from 1965 to 1997.She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and awarded the OBE in 1988...
, crystallographer 1987 (JYB 2005 p214) - Rudolf KompfnerRudolf KompfnerRudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube .Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents...
, invented traveling wave tubeTraveling wave tubeA traveling-wave tube is an electronic device used to amplify radio frequency signals to high power, usually in an electronic assembly known as a traveling-wave tube amplifier .... - Hans Kronberger (physicist)Hans Kronberger (physicist)Hans Kronberger CBE, FRS was a British physicist.- Education :* King's College, University of Durham; BSc 1944* University of Birmingham; Ph.D 1948- Career :Escaping from Austria he studied in Durham...
, nuclear physicist - Nicholas KurtiNicholas KurtiProfessor Nicholas Kurti FRS was a Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. In his era, he was one of the leading experimental physicists....
http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-924108-2.pdf, physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67. Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyDictionary of National BiographyThe Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...
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- Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons
- "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 CherwellFrederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellFrederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...
http://jewish-sci-tech-books.com/personalities.htm, physicist and politician - Henry LipsonHenry LipsonHenry Lipson CBE was a British physicist. He was Professor of Physics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1954-77, then Professor Emeritus....
(JYB 1990 p201) - Sir Ben LockspeiserBen LockspeiserSir Benjamin Lockspeiser KCB, FRS, MIMechE, FRAeS, was a British scientific administrator and the first President of CERN....
(JYB 1990 p201) - Stanley MandelstamStanley MandelstamStanley Mandelstam is a South African-born theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Kurt MendelssohnKurt MendelssohnKurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
(Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
13:492) - Leon MestelLeon MestelLeon Mestel is a British astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He has won both the Eddington Medal and the Gold...
, astronomer (Who's Who entry & JYB 2000 p211) - F.R. Nunes Nabarro (JYB 2005 p214)
- Rudolf PeierlsRudolf PeierlsSir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences...
(JYB 1995 p193) - Michael PepperMichael PepperSir Michael Pepper FRS FInstP is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.-Education:Sir Michael went to school at St Marylebone Grammar, then gained a BSc and PhD from the University of Reading and an MA and ScD from Cambridge University.-Career:Sir Michael was a...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Joseph RotblatJoseph RotblatSir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS , was a Polish-born, British-naturalised physicist.His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty...
http://www.pugwash.org/publication/obits/obit-rotblat-press-latimes.htm, physicist, Nobel Peace Prize (1995) - Arthur SchusterArthur SchusterSir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...
(Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1012) - Dennis SciamaDennis William SciamaDennis William Siahou Sciama FRS was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.-Life:Sciama was born in Manchester, England...
, FRSRoyal SocietyThe Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html, cosmologist - David ShoenbergDavid ShoenbergDavid Shoenberg, MBE FRS, was a British physicist.David Shoenberg was born in 1911, the son of Isaac Shoenberg. Isaac, born in Pinsk in Russia was the principal inventor of the high-definition television system used by the BBC for the world’s first high-definition television broadcast from...
, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193) - Sir Francis SimonFrancis SimonSir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon , was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.-Early life:He was born to a...
, 1941 (Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1578) - David TaborDavid TaborDavid Tabor was a British physicist who coined the word tribology for the study of frictional interaction between surfaces.He was Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, then Emeritus professor...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Samuel TolanskySamuel TolanskySamuel Tolansky born Turlausky BSc DThPT PhD PhD DSc FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.-Personal life:His...
, spectroscopist
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants"
- Felix WeinbergFelix WeinbergFelix J. Weinberg is a British physicist.Felix J. Weinberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., Hon.D.Sc., F.Inst.P, F.C.G.I., F.R.S.,Emeritus Professor of Combustion Physics in the University of London,Distinguished Research Fellow, Imperial College London....
(JYB 2005 p214) - Michael WoolfsonMichael WoolfsonMichael Mark Woolfson is a British physicist.Education: Jesus College, Oxford ; UMIST .-Career:* Research Assistant: UMIST, 1950-52; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1952-54...
, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984 (JYB 2005 p214) - Alec David YoungAlec David YoungAlec David Young was a British aero-engineer. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London, 1954-78, then Emeritus, and Vice-Principal, Queen Mary College, 1966-78.-Education:He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge .He was...
, aero-engineer (JYB 2005 p214) - John ZimanJohn ZimanJohn Michael Ziman was a physicist and a humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was an outstanding spokesman for science, and an accomplished teacher and author....
http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html
- Felix Weinberg
Chemists
- Herbert Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize (1979) (JYB 2005 p215) Born in London - see refs in article
- Sir Arnold BurgenArnold BurgenSir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge 1982-89 , Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa....
(JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Roy CalneRoy CalneSir Roy Yorke Calne, FRS, is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation; he performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968. His surgical procedures also laid claim to many other pioneering successes in his career: the world's first liver, heart, and lung...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Jack David DunitzJack David DunitzJack David Dunitz is a British chemist and one of the greatest chemical crystallographers.He was Professor of Chemical Crystallography at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology , Zürich, 1957–90...
http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html, chemist - Martin FleischmannMartin FleischmannMartin Fleischmann is a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. He came to wider public prominence following his controversial publication of work with colleague Stanley Pons on cold fusion using palladium in the 1980s and '90s.-Early life:Born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia,...
, chemist - Rosalind FranklinRosalind FranklinRosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/franklin.html, physical chemistPhysical chemistryPhysical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...
and crystalographer, helped to discover structure of DNADNADeoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in... - Eugen GlueckaufEugen GlueckaufEugen Glueckauf was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.After an education at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, he escaped from the Nazis to London...
(JYB 1980 p182) - Sir Ian HeilbronIan HeilbronSir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS was a British chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was knighted in 1946...
(Encyclopedia Judaica 8:262) - Walter HeitlerWalter HeitlerWalter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory...
http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html - Sir Aaron KlugAaron KlugSir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...
http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1982/klug-autobio.html, physicist & chemist, Nobel Prize (1982) (JYB 2000 p211-2) - Harold KrotoHarold KrotoSir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS , born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley....
, discoverer of buckminsterfullereneBuckminsterfullereneBuckminsterfullerene is a spherical fullerene molecule with the formula . It was first intentionally prepared in 1985 by Harold Kroto, James Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University...
, Nobel Prize (1996) (Jewish father; raised Jewish) - Raphael MeldolaRaphael MeldolaRaphael Meldola FRS was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.- Life :...
(Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
11:1290) - Alfred Mond, chemist 1928 (Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
4:1298, 12:241) - Ludwig MondLudwig MondDr Ludwig Mond , was a German-born chemist and industrialist who took British nationality.-Education and career:...
http://www.ajr.org.uk/pastjournal22.htm, chemist & industrialist - Sir Robert MondRobert MondSir Robert Ludwig Mond FRS, FRSE was a British chemist and archaeologist.-Early life and education:Robert Mond was born at Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, the elder son of Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist...
, chemist and archaeologist (Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
, art. Mond) - Albert NeubergerAlbert NeubergerAlbert Neuberger CBE FRS FRCP was Professor of Chemical Pathology, St Mary's Hospital, University of London, 1955–1973, and later Emeritus Professor.-Education in Germany:...
http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html, chemical pathologist
- father of Prof. James NeubergerJames NeubergerJames Max Neuberger is a consultant physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham...
, Lord Justice Sir David NeubergerDavid NeubergerDavid Edmond Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury , PC , is an English lawyer. He was formerly a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and since 2009 has been Master of the Rolls, the second most senior judge in England and Wales...
and Prof. Michael NeubergerMichael NeubergerMichael Samuel Neuberger FRS is a British biochemist and immunologist.-Education:He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.-Career:He has...
, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger- Friedrich PanethFriedrich PanethFriedrich Adolf Paneth was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain and became a British citizen in 1939 but returned as director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in 1953....
(Encyclopaedia JudaicaEncyclopaedia JudaicaThe Encyclopaedia Judaica is a 26-volume English-language encyclopedia of the Jewish people and their faith, Judaism. It covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history of all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings...
13:54) - Sir Max PerutzMax PerutzMax Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1200715, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962) - Michael PolanyiMichael PolanyiMichael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and the theory of knowledge...
http://www.aip.org/history/ead/chicago_polanyi/20010098_content.html, chemist; naturalised British 1939 (Dictionary of National BiographyDictionary of National BiographyThe Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...
) - Ralph RaphaelRalph RaphaelRalph Alexander Raphael FRS was a British organic chemist.He was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1957-1972, and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Chemistry Ralph Alexander Raphael FRS (1 January 1921...
(JYB 1995 p193) - Michael Rossmann http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html
- Jeremy SandersJeremy SandersJeremy Keith Morris Sanders, is a British chemist who is known for his contributions to many fields including NMR spectroscopy and supramolecular chemistry. He has been Head of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Cambridge since 2009; he was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor 2006–2010,...
- Anthony SegalAnthony SegalAnthony Walter Segal is a British biochemist.He has been Charles Dent Professor of Medicine, University College London, since 1986. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and University of London . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998...
, 1998 (JYB 2005 p214) - Franz SondheimerFranz Sondheimer-Early life:Sondheimer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1926 and, following the rise of the Nazis, fled to the United Kingdom in 1937.-Education:He was a pupil at Highgate School and subsequently studied chemistry, receiving his degree from Imperial College London.-Career:From 1949 to 1952,...
, organic chemist (JYB 2005 p214) - Michael SzwarcMichael SzwarcMichael Szwarc was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization.- Biography :...
, polymer chemistry (Encyclopedia Judaica, 15:670]] - ,
- Dr Nikita Poltavsky, and his wife Denise Mancheste.
- Carl WarburgCarl WarburgCarl Warburg, also known as Charles Warburg, was a physician, clinical pharmacologist, pharmaceutical chemist, botanist and manufacturer...
, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist. - Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
, acetone production (First President of Israel)
- Friedrich Paneth
Biologists
- Saul AdlerSaul AdlerSaul Adler FRS was an Israeli expert on Parasitology.-Early life:Adler was born in 1895 in Kerelits , then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus. In 1900, he and his family moved to England and they settled in Leeds...
(JYB 1960 p216) - Ephraim AndersonEphraim AndersonEphraim Saul "Andy" Anderson FRS CBE was a British bacteriologist, best known for his work highlighting the human health dangers of drug-resistant bacteria created by antibiotics, in particular by low-dose antibiotic use in animal feeding. Anderson was educated at Rutherford College before winning...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1736344,00.html, microbiologist - Charlotte AuerbachCharlotte AuerbachCharlotte Auerbach FRSE FRS was a German zoologist and geneticist.Born in Germany, she fled to Scotland because of anti-Semitism. She became well known after 1942 when she, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, discovered that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies...
(JYB 1977 p207) - Dame Val Beral http://www.archive.org/details/budabinkulafamilyf001, breast cancer researcher
- Walter BodmerWalter BodmerSir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1499065.htm, geneticist - Gustav Victor Rudolf BornGustav Victor Rudolf BornGustav Victor Rudolf Born is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College....
http://termessos.de/Bornengl.htm, Professor of Pharmacology - Sydney BrennerSydney BrennerSydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/bios/brenner-s.htm, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (2002) - Leslie BrentLeslie BrentLeslie Baruch Brent , born Lothar Baruch, in Köslin, Germany , to German-Jewish parents, is a British immunologist and zoologist....
: TimesAd - Edith BülbringEdith BülbringEdith Bülbring was Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University, 1967–71, later Emeritus Professor.She was educated at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Freiburg, and became a hospital doctor...
, pharmacologist (Jewish mother) - Sir Ernst Chain http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/pharm/antibiot/readings/flocha.htm, co-developer of penicillinPenicillinPenicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V....
, Nobel Prize (1945) - Sir Philip CohenPhilip CohenSir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE is a British researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner. During the 1990s he was Britain's third most cited professor and has been described by Professor Garry Taylor of the University of St Andrews as "one of the world’s top scientists"...
http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html, biologist - Sydney CohenSydney CohenSydney Cohen CBE, FRS is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School and an authority on malaria.He was educated at King Edward VIIth School, Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand and London universities...
, pathologist (JYB 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
- Julius DreschfeldJulius DreschfeldJulius Dreschfeld FRCP was a leading British physician and pathologist.Born in Bavaria of Jewish parents, he was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Manchester Royal School of Medicine....
, medical researcher - Raymond DwekRaymond DwekProfessor Raymond Allen Dwek BSc DPhil DSc FRS is a scientist at the University of Oxford and founded its spin-off biotechnology company, Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. ....
, biologist (JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Michael EpsteinAnthony EpsteinSir Michael Anthony Epstein CBE, FRS is one of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus.Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Epstein was Professor of Pathology, 1968-85 , and Head of Department, 1968-82 at the...
, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virusEpstein-Barr virusThe Epstein–Barr virus , also called human herpesvirus 4 , is a virus of the herpes family and is one of the most common viruses in humans. It is best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Wilhelm FeldbergWilhelm FeldbergWilhelm Siegmund Feldberg CBE FRS was a German-British-Jewish physiologist and biologist.- Biography :...
(JYB 1977 p207) pharmacologist - Sir Alan FershtAlan FershtSir Alan Roy Fersht FRS is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He is distinguished for his pioneering work on protein folding.-Biography:...
http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html, protein folding - Sir Otto FrankelOtto FrankelSir Otto Herzberg Frankel was an Austrian-born Australian geneticist.- Early life and family :...
, geneticist - Ian GlynnIan GlynnIan Michael Glynn FRS FRCP is a British biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1986–95, now Professor Emeritus...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria
- Susan Greenfield, Baroness GreenfieldSusan GreenfieldSusan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Greenfield is...
http://www.damaris.org/dcscs/readingroom/2000/susangreenfield.htm, neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father) - Hans GrunebergHans GrunebergHans Grüneberg, also written as Hans Grueneberg and Hans Gruneberg, was a British geneticist. Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany. He obtained an MD from the University of Bonn, a PhD in biology from the University of Berlin and a DSc from the University of London. He arrived in...
(JYB 1967 p208) biologist - Sir Ludwig GuttmannLudwig GuttmannSir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE, FRS was a German neurologist who founded the Paralympic Games while living in England, and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability....
, neurologist - Sir Henry Harris (Encyclopedia Judaica 4:138]])
- Philip D'Arcy HartPhilip D'Arcy HartPhilip Montagu D’Arcy Hart, CBE, was a British medical researcher and pioneer in tuberculosis treatment. Grandson of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, he became a consultant physician at University College Hospital at the age of 34...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060824/ai_n16687118, medical researcher - Sir Gabriel HornGabriel HornSir Gabriel Horn, FRS is a British biologist. His research is into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, 1974–77, then Professor of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1978–95 . He was Master of Sidney Sussex...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Alick IsaacsAlick IsaacsAlick Isaacs was a British virologist. He is best remembered for his work on interferon, having been Head of the Laboratory for Research on Interferon, National Institute for Medical Research, 1964–7....
http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst2943.html http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Research.html, virologist, interferonInterferonInterferons are proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of pathogens—such as viruses, bacteria, or parasites—or tumor cells. They allow communication between cells to trigger the protective defenses of the immune system that eradicate pathogens or tumors.IFNs belong to... - David Ish-HorowiczDavid Ish-HorowiczDavid Ish-Horowicz is a British scientist. He has been Principal Scientist and head of developmental genetics at Cancer Research UK , since 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in...
, 2002 (JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Bernard KatzBernard KatzSir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/katz.html, biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970) - David KeilinDavid KeilinDavid Keilin FRS was an entomologist, among other things.His family returned to Warsaw early in his youth. He did not attend school until age ten due to ill health and asthma. Only seven years later, in 1904, he enrolled in the University of Liège...
http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html, enzymologist - Sir Hans KornbergHans KornbergProfessor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS is a British biochemist.-Early Life, Education and Career:Kornberg was born in 1928 in Germany of Jewish parents. In 1939 he left Nazi Germany , and moved to the care of an uncle in Yorkshire...
, 1965 (JYB 2005 p214) - Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist http://www.jinfo.org/Biology_Lasker_Basic.html
- Sir Hans Adolf KrebsHans Adolf KrebsSir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British physician and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle...
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1541.html, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953) - Sir John KrebsJohn KrebsJohn Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs FRS is a world leader in zoology and more specifically bird behaviour. He is currently the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford University...
, zoologist - Roland LevinskyRoland LevinskyProfessor Roland Levinsky was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.He was born in South Africa to Jewish parents...
, biologist - Michael LevittMichael LevittProfessor Michael Levitt FRS is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987 working in computational biology and bioinformatics....
http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html - Hans LissmannHans LissmannHans Werner Lissmann FRS was a British zoologist, specialising in animal behaviour.He was Reader, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1966–77, then Reader Emeritus, and Director, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, 1969-77. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in...
(JYB 1995 p193) - Joel MandelstamJoel MandelstamJoel Mandelstam FRS was a British microbiologist. He was a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.-Career:* Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947-51...
(JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Michael MarmotMichael MarmotSir Michael Gideon Marmot is professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.- Career :Michael Marmot was born in London, England. He moved to Australia as a young child and graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1968. He earned a MPH in 1972...
, epidemiologist (JYB 2005 213) - César MilsteinCésar MilsteinCésar Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Milstein.html, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1984) - Leslie OrgelLeslie OrgelLeslie Eleazer Orgel FRS was a British chemist.Born in London, England, Orgel received his B.A. in chemistry with first class honours from Oxford University in 1949...
http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html, evolutionary biologist - Guido PontecorvoGuido PontecorvoGuido Pontecorvo ForMemRS was an Italian-born geneticist.-Career:He fled to Britain in 1938.* Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, 1938-40 and 1944-45...
, 1955 (JYB 1995 p193) - Juda Quastel http://www.jinfo.org/Biomedical_Scientists.html
- Ivan RoittIvan RoittProfessor Ivan Maurice Roitt was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford University.In 1956, together with Deborah Doniach and Peter Campbell, he made the classic discovery of thyroglobulin autoantibodies in Hashimoto's thyroiditis which helped to open the whole...
, immunologist 1983 (JYB 2005 p214) (JYB 2000 p211) - Steven RoseSteven RoseSteven P. Rose is a Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London.-Life:...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/belief/scripts/steven_rose.shtml, biologist - Sir Martin RothMartin RothProfessor Sir Martin Roth FRS was a British psychiatrist.He was Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 1977–85, then Professor Emeritus, and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1977. He was one of the pioneers in developing Psychogeriatrics as a subspecialty.-References:...
, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214) - Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild http://www.ajn.com.au/pages/archives/obituaries/06g-obit.html, entomologist
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildVictor Rothschild, 3rd Baron RothschildNathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family...
1953 (JYB 1990 p199,202,259) - Oliver SacksOliver SacksOliver Wolf Sacks, CBE , is a British neurologist and psychologist residing in New York City. He is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University, where he also holds the position of Columbia Artist...
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/124/21.0.html, neurologist and author - Isaac de Sequeira SamudaIsaac de Sequeira SamudaIsaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda was a British physician. He was the first member of the Samuda family to settle in Britain.He was the first Jew to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=3&dsqSearch=((text)='samuda') (first Jewish FRS; elected 1727) - John Vane http://www.jinfo.org/Chemists.html, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1982) (Jewish father)
- Lawrence WeiskrantzLawrence WeiskrantzLawrence Weiskrantz is a British psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.-Career:* Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952...
, psychologist (JYB 2005 p214) - Peter David Jacob Weitzman, biochemist
- Robert Winston, Baron WinstonRobert WinstonRobert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter and politician.-Early life and education :...
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/helphand.html, fertility expert and broadcaster - Lewis WolpertLewis WolpertLewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL is a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.-Career:Wolpert was educated at the University of Witwatersrand , at Imperial College London, and at King's College London...
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/careers/bio/wolpert.html, developmental biologist and broadcaster - Lord Solly ZuckermanSolly ZuckermanSolly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS was a British public servant, zoologist, and scientific advisor who is best remembered as an advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in World War II, for his work to advance the cause of nuclear non-proliferation, and for his role in bringing...
, anatomist, evolutionist (JYB 1965 p214)
Mathematicians and statisticians
- Abraham Manie AdelsteinAbraham Manie AdelsteinAbraham Manie "Abe" Adelstein was a South African born doctor who became the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician.-Career:...
, statistician - Hertha Ayrton , mathematician and engineer
- Laurence BaxterLaurence BaxterLaurence Alan Baxter was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.-Early life:...
, statistician - Abram Besicovitch http://www.jinfo.org/Mathematics_Comp.html, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
- Selig BrodetskySelig BrodetskySelig Brodetsky was a British Professor of Mathematics, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the second president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Background:Brodetsky was born in Olviopol , Ukraine, the second of 13 children...
, mathematician and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews - Jacob BronowskiJacob BronowskiJacob Bronowski was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor...
http://www.sdjewishjournal.com/stories/article5.html, mathematician & broadcaster - Paul CohnPaul CohnPaul Moritz Cohn FRS was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra...
, algebraist - H.E. Daniels , statistician
- Philip DawidPhilip DawidAlexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...
http://jewish-books.net/findBy_AuthName/find_A.Philip_Dawid.html, statistician - Arthur ErdelyiArthur ErdélyiArthur Erdélyi FRS, FRSE was a Hungarian-born British mathematician. Erdélyi was a leading expert on special functions - especially orthogonal polynomials and hypergeometric functions.-Biography:...
, mathematician - John FoxJohn Fox (statistician)John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia.He was born on 25 April 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London and Imperial College London...
, statistician - Albrecht FrohlichAlbrecht FröhlichAlbrecht Fröhlich FRS was a mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers....
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/bio_mems/Frohlich%20press.pdf - David Glass , demographer
- Sir Samuel GoldmanSamuel GoldmanSir Samuel Goldman KCB was Second Permanent Secretary at Her Majesty's Treasury and later an international banker....
, British Government statistician - Sydney GoldsteinSydney GoldsteinSydney Goldstein FRS was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as:...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Goldstein.html, expert on fluid mechanics - Benjamin GompertzBenjamin GompertzBenjamin Gompertz was a British self educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gompertz.html, mathematician - Eugene GrebenikEugene GrebenikEugene Grebenik CB, known as "Grebby" was a central figure in the development of demography in Britain and the first director of the British Civil Service College.- Early life :...
http://www.ehrcweb.org/jobs/Press-Eugene-Grebenik-17668.htm, demographer - Steven HabermanSteven HabermanSteven Haberman is the professor of actuarial science and a senior administrator at City University, London.He was educated at Ilford County High School, Trinity College, Cambridge and City University .- Career :...
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/concepts/demography/demjpop.html, professor of actuarial science - John HajnalJohn HajnalJohn Hajnal, FBA , born John Hajnal-Kónyi, was a Hungarian-British academic in the fields of mathematics and economics .-Life:...
, demographer (JYB 2005 p215) - Hans HeilbronnHans HeilbronnHans Arnold Heilbronn was a mathematician.He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised his doctorate...
(JYB 1977, p207) - Marie JahodaMarie JahodaMarie Jahoda was an Austrian- British social psychologist.-Biography:Jahoda was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where political oppression against socialists was rampant henceforward Dollfuß claimed power...
http://www3.niu.edu/acad/psych/Millis/History/2003/womeninpsych_6.htm, psychologist - Thomas Körner, mathematician
- Ruth LawrenceRuth LawrenceRuth Elke Lawrence-Naimark is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. Outside academia, she is best known for being a child prodigy in mathematics.- Youth :Ruth Lawrence...
http://www.jewishdeaf.org.uk/latestnews/tvstarlett.htm, mathematician & child prodigy - Leone LeviLeone LeviLeone Levi was an English jurist and statistician.Born to a Jewish family in Ancona, Italy, he worked in commerce there before emigrating to Liverpool in 1844. There he obtained British citizenship and joined the Presbyterian church....
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Leone_Levi, statistician - Kurt MahlerKurt MahlerKurt Mahler was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen, graduating with a Ph.D...
, mathematician (JYB 2005 p214) - Sir Claus Moser http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/entertainment/previewsandreviews/content_objectid=13939784_method=full_siteid=50061_page=5_headline=-A-brush-withour-darkest-hour-name_page.html, statistician
- Louis MordellLouis MordellLouis Joel Mordell was a British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, USA, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mordell.html, number theorist - Bernhard NeumannBernhard NeumannBernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject....
, 1959 (JYB 2005 p214) - Richard RadoRichard RadoRichard Rado FRS was a Jewish German mathematician. He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Rado_Richard.html, mathematician - Klaus RothKlaus RothKlaus Friedrich Roth is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. He was born in Breslau, Prussia, but raised and educated in the UK. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945...
http://www.jinfo.org/Fields_Mathematics.html, mathematician, Fields Medal (1958) - Bernard SilvermanBernard SilvermanBernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
, statistician http://www.jfjfp.org/signatories.htm#S - David SpiegelhalterDavid SpiegelhalterDavid John Spiegelhalter OBE, FRS, is a distinguished British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge...
, statistician (JYB 2007 p. 198) - James Joseph SylvesterJames Joseph SylvesterJames Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics...
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sylvester.html, mathematician
Computer scientists
- Samson AbramskySamson AbramskySamson D. Abramsky FRS, FRSE is a computer scientist who currently holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He is well known for playing a leading role in the development of game semantics...
, computer scientist (JYB 2007 p. 198) - David DeutschDavid DeutschDavid Elieser Deutsch, FRS is an Israeli-British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford...
http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html, quantum computing pioneer - I.J. Good http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html, cryptographer, philosopher of statistics & computing pioneer
- David Levy http://jewish-books.net/findBy_AuthName/find_David_Levy_chess.htm, computer chess expert
- Leo MarksLeo MarksLeopold Samuel Marks was an English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:Born the son of an antiquarian bookseller in London, he was first introduced to cryptography when his father showed him a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Gold-Bug"...
http://www.mishalov.com/Marks.html, cryptographer & screenwriter - Max NewmanMax NewmanMaxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897...
http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html, mathematician & computing pioneer (Jewish father) - Gordon PlotkinGordon PlotkinGordon D. Plotkin, FRS, FRSE is a Scottish computer scientist.Gordon Plotkin is best-known for his introduction of structural operational semantics and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics of 1981 were very influential...
http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html, computer scientist - Leslie ValiantLeslie ValiantLeslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is...
http://www.jinfo.org/Computer_Scientists.html, computer scientist parallel computation
Economists
- Lord BauerPeter Thomas BauerPeter Thomas Bauer, Baron Bauer was a developmental economist. Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid.- Life :Bauer was born as Péter Tamás Bauer in Budapest,...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F05%2F06%2Fdb0601.xml, economist - Samuel BrittanSamuel BrittanSir Samuel Brittan is a British columnist for the Financial Times and an author.At Cambridge he was taught by Peter Bauer and Milton Friedman...
, economist - Charles GoodhartCharles GoodhartCharles Albert Eric Goodhart, CBE, FBA is an economist. He was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997-May 2000 and a professor at the London School of Economics . He is the developer of Goodhart's law, an economic law named after him...
, Bank of EnglandBank of EnglandThe Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...
economist - Noreena HertzNoreena HertzProfessor Noreena Hertz is an English economist, author and campaigner.In her 2002 book The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and The Death of Democracy, Hertz warned that unregulated markets, corporate greed, and over-powerful financial institutions would have serious global consequences that...
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Sjc7gNqcp_YJ:www.jewishartsfest.org/index.cfm%3Fpage%3Dsingle.cfm%26sectionid%3D226+%22Noreena+Hertz%22+Jewish&hl=en, economist & activist - Richard Kahn, Baron KahnRichard Kahn, Baron KahnRichard Ferdinand Kahn, Baron Kahn, CBE, FBA was a British economist.Kahn was born in Hampstead to Augustus Kahn, a German schoolmaster and an orthodox Jew, and Regina Schoyer. He raised in England and was educated on St Paul's School, London...
http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html, economist: multiplierMultiplier (economics)In economics, the fiscal multiplier is the ratio of a change in national income to the change in government spending that causes it. More generally, the exogenous spending multiplier is the ratio of a change in national income to any autonomous change in spending In economics, the fiscal... - Nicholas KaldorNicholas KaldorNicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period...
http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html, economist - Michael KidronMichael KidronMichael Kidron was a revolutionary thinker and cartographer. He was part of the leadership of the International Socialists through the 1960s and 1970s. He is perhaps best remembered for his visually arresting The State Of The World Atlas.-Early life and career:Kidron was born on 20 September...
, South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher. - Israel KirznerIsrael KirznerIsrael Meir Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian School.-Early life:The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born in London, England and came to the United States via South Africa.-Education:After studying with the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 1947-48 and...
http://www.fff.org/freedom/0400f.asp, economist (UK-born) - Ludwig LachmannLudwig LachmannLudwig Lachmann was a German economist who became a member of and important contributor to the Austrian School.-Education and career:...
, economist - Harold LaskiHarold LaskiHarold Joseph Laski was a British Marxist, political theorist, economist, author, and lecturer, who served as the chairman of the Labour Party during 1945-1946, and was a professor at the LSE from 1926 to 1950....
, economist (The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, ed Geoffrey Wigoder, 5th ed 1977, pp. 1182–3) - Alexander NoveAlexander NoveAlexander Nove , FRSE, FBA was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D...
, economist (JYB 1990 p202) - Sigbert PraisSigbert PraisProfessor Sigbert Jon Prais FBA is an economist and has been the Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research since 1970.- Education :...
, economist (JYB 2005 p215) - David RicardoDavid RicardoDavid Ricardo was an English political economist, often credited with systematising economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill. He was also a member of Parliament, businessman, financier and speculator,...
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/ricardo.htm, economist (converted to Quakerism) - Arthur SeldonArthur SeldonDr Arthur Seldon CBE was joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed academic affairs for 30 years....
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,1441,1590862,00.html, economist - Sir Hans SingerHans SingerSir Hans Wolfgang Singer was a development economist best known for the Singer-Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figures of heterodox economics.-Biography:Singer was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1910...
, economist; The EconomistThe EconomistThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
, 11 March 2006 p95: "born a Jew" - Piero SraffaPiero SraffaPiero Sraffa was an influential Italian economist whose book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the Neo-Ricardian school of Economics.- Early life :...
http://www.jinfo.org/Economists.html, economist - Basil YameyBasil YameyBasil S. Yamey, CBE is a South African economist. He was born in Cape Town in South Africa, and educated at the University of Cape Town. For many years he was a Professor at the London School of Economics...
, economist (JYB 2005 p215,315) - Professor Sir Lord Nicholas Stern, economist (JYB 2005 p215,315)
Social scientists
- Roy Clive AbrahamRoy Clive AbrahamRoy Clive Abraham was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century...
, linguist - Michael BalintMichael BalintMichael Balint or Bálint Mihály was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and proponent of the Object Relations school.-Life:...
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1298.html, psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism) - Zygmunt BaumanZygmunt BaumanZygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,929598,00.html, sociologist - Basil BernsteinBasil BernsteinBasil Bernstein was a British sociologist and linguist, known for his work in the sociology of education.-Biography:...
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/DR7JQQP6UTXFG2CK.pdf, linguist - Vernon BogdanorVernon BogdanorVernon Bogdanor, CBE, FBA is Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at King's College London, and a Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues...
, professor of politics (JYB 2005 pp215,223) - Georgina BornGeorgina BornGeorgina Born is a British academic, anthropologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born, but in academic circles she does not use the diminutive form.-Background:...
, anthropologist (daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf BornGustav Victor Rudolf BornGustav Victor Rudolf Born is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College....
) - Gerald CohenGerald CohenGerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...
, Professor of Social and Political Theory (JYB 2005 p215) - Norbert EliasNorbert EliasNorbert Elias was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.-Biography:...
, sociologist - Herman FinerHerman FinerHerman Finer was a Bessarabian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago...
, political scientist - Samuel FinerSamuel FinerProfessor Samuel Edward Finer was a political scientist and historian who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, pioneering the study of UK political institutions...
, political scientist - Sir Moses I. FinleyMoses I. FinleySir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA was an American and English classical scholar. His most notable work is The Ancient Economy , where he argued that status and civic ideology governed the economy in antiquity rather than rational economic motivations.-Early life and career:He was born in 1912 in New...
, historian and sociologist - Meyer FortesMeyer FortesMeyer Fortes was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard...
, anthropologist (JYB 1980 p183) - Eduard FraenkelEduard FraenkelEduard David Mortier Fraenkel was a German-English philologist.-Background and early life:Eduard Fraenkel was born to Jewish parents in Berlin. His father was a wine dealer, and his mother the daughter of an important publishing family...
, philologist - Anna FreudAnna FreudAnna Freud was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis...
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/annafreud.html, child psychoanalyst - Norman GerasNorman GerasNorman Geras is Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Manchester. In a long academic career, he has contributed substantially to the analysis of the works of Karl Marx, particularly in his book Marx and Human Nature and the article 'The Controversy About Marx and Justice', which...
http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~plcdib/imprints/normangerasinterview.html, 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 GinsbergMorris GinsbergMorris Ginsberg was a UK sociologist. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943. Ginsberg helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question...
http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/Ginsberg/m.html - Max GluckmanMax GluckmanMax Gluckman was a South African and British social anthropologist.He grew up in South Africa, working later under the British Administration in Northern Rhodesia...
, anthropologist (JYB 1975 p213) - Theodor GoldstückerTheodor GoldstückerTheodor Goldstücker was a German Sanskrit scholar. He was born of Jewish parents in Königsberg. After attending the gymnasium of that town, he entered its university in 1836 as a student of Sanskrit....
, orientalist - Jean GottmannJean GottmannJean Gottmann FRS was a French geographer who was most widely known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast Megalopolis. His main contributions to human geography were in the sub-fields of urban, political, economic, historical and regional geography...
, professor of geography, Oxford University - Julius GouldJulius GouldJulius Gould is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham.Education: University of Oxford .- Career :* 1956-1964 Reader in Social Institutions, London School of Economics...
, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249) - Frank H. Hahn, economist
- Paul HirstPaul HirstPaul Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,981060,00.html, social theorist (Jewish mother) - Marie JahodaMarie JahodaMarie Jahoda was an Austrian- British social psychologist.-Biography:Jahoda was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where political oppression against socialists was rampant henceforward Dollfuß claimed power...
http://www.jinfo.org/Sociologists.html, psychology of discrimination - Melanie KleinMelanie KleinMelanie Reizes Klein was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis...
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/klein2.html, psychotherapist - Paul KlempererPaul KlempererPaul David Klemperer, FBA, is an economist and the Edgeworth Professor of Economics at Oxford University. He is a member of the prominent Klemperer family...
, economist - Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish (JYB 2005 p215)
- Steven LukesSteven LukesSteven Michael Lukes is a political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University...
, political scientist (JYB 2005 p215) - Ashley MontaguAshley MontaguMontague Francis Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist, of Jewish ancestry, who popularized topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development...
http://montagunocircpetition.org/montagu-bio.pg, anthropologist & humanist - Nikolas RoseNikolas RoseNikolas Rose is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist. He is currently the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and acting director of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society.-Life and work:Before...
, Martin White Professor Sociology, LSELondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. - Isaac SchaperaIsaac SchaperaIsaac Schapera, FBA, FRSSAf was Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the anthropology of South African tribesmen....
, anthropologist (JYB 2005 p215) - Roger Silverstone, first professor of Media Sociology, LSELondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. - Edward UllendorffEdward UllendorffEdward Ullendorff FBA was a British scholar and historian, especially in Semitic languages and Ethiopia.-Biography:...
, linguist (JYB 2005 p215)
- Morris Ginsberg