Can any one give the name of IMPORTANT scientists from Jews community?

Question

Can any one give the name of IMPORTANT scientists from Jews community?

Answer 1

Albert Einstein is the 1st one that comes to mind

He was a German Jewish who later became American

Answer 2

Here's a short list; there may be a couple of duplications:

Albert Einstein -- One of the most famous and influential scientists since Isaac Newton

Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'

Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure

Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures

Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements

Edward Teller -- Physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb

Leo Szilard -- Physicist, proved the possiblily of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933.

Jonas Salk -- Developed the first polio vaccine.

Franz Boas Modern Anthropology

William Herschel--astronomer

Murray Gell-Mann--leader in quantum physics

Sheldon Glashow--discovered "charmed" sub-atomic particles

Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics

Hans Bethe the Energy of the Sun

Paul Ehrlich Chemotherapy

Claude Levi-Strauss Structural Anthropology

Lynn Margulis Symbiosis Theory

Karl Landsteiner the Blood Groups

J. Robert Oppenheimer--atomic physics

Edward Teller--the A-Bomb

Hal Abelson, artificial intelligence

Len Adleman, RSA cryptography, DNA computing, Turing Award (2002)

David Austreng, photographic display, www photographic 3D (Jewish mother)

Paul Baran, packet switching

Dan Bernstein, cryptologist (unconfirmed)

Manuel Blum, computational complexity, Turing Award (1995)

Dan Bricklin, creator of the original spreadsheet

Sergei Brin

Peter Elias, information theory

Robert Fano, information theory

Edward Feigenbaum, artificial intelligence, Turing Award (1994)

William F. Friedman, cryptologist

Eugene Garfield, library & information scientist

David Gelernter, parallel computation, Unabomber victim

Adele Goldberg, Smalltalk design team

Herman & Adele Goldstine, developers of ENIAC

Shafi Goldwasser, cryptographer

Philip Greenspun, web applications

Martin Hellman, public key cryptography

Douglas Hofstadter, academic & author (half Jewish)

Bob Kahn, TCP/IP

Richard Karp, computational complexity, Turing Award (1985)

John Kemeny, BASIC

Leonard Kleinrock, packet switching

Joseph Kruskal, Kruskal's algorithm

Solomon Kullback, cryptographer

Raymond Kurzweil, OCR, speech recognition

Leslie Lamport, LaTeX

Jaron Lanier, virtual reality

Leonid Levin, computational complexity

Herman Lukoff, helped develop ENIAC and UNIVAC

John McCarthy, inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" (half Jewish)

Marvin Minsky, artificial intelligence, neural nets, Turing Award (1969)

John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician & economist

Larry Page

David Parnas, software engineering

Seymour Papert, LOGO

Judea Pearl, Bayesian networks

Ken Perlin, fractal noise

Alan J. Perlis, compilers, Turing Award (1966)

Lawrence Rabiner, digital signal processing

Frank Rosenblatt, perceptrons

Azriel Rosenfeld, image analysis

Jean E. Sammet, language design

Bruce Schneier, cryptographer

Herbert Simon, cognitive & computer scientist, Turing Award (1975)

Abraham Sinkov, cryptanalyst

Daniel Sleator, splay trees (Jewish mother)

Gustave Solomon, error correction

Ray Solomonoff, algorithmic information theory

Richard Stallman, GNU, FSF

Gerald Jay Sussman, Scheme

Jeffrey D. Ullman, compilers

Leslie Valiant, parallel computing

Andrew Viterbi, Viterbi algorithm

Peter J. Weinberger, awk

Joseph Weizenbaum, ELIZA, artificial intelligence critic

Norbert Wiener, cybernetics

Terry Winograd, SHRDLU

Jacob Wolfowitz, information theory

Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy logic

Richard Axel, olfactory system, Nobel Prize (2004)

Julius Axelrod, neurotransmitters, Nobel Prize (1970)

David Baltimore, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)

Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1980)

M. A. Benjaminson, microbiologist and biotechnologist, in vitro meat pioneer

Konrad Bloch, cholesterol, Nobel Prize (1959)

Baruch Blumberg, hepatitis B vaccine, Nobel Prize (1976)

Michael S. Brown, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)

Stanley Cohen, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)

Stanley N. Cohen, genetic engineering

Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947)

Jared Diamond, evolutionary biologist & biogeographer

Carl Djerassi, contraceptive pill

Gerald Edelman, biologist, Nobel Prize (1972)

Gertrude Elion, drug development, Nobel Prize (1988)

Joseph Erlanger, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1945)

Edmond H. Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)

Judah Folkman, cancer angiogenesis

Casimir Funk, vitamins

Robert F. Furchgott, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1998)

Herbert Gasser, physiologist, Nobel Prize (1945) (Jewish father)

Alfred G. Gilman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)

Joseph L. Goldstein, molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985)

Paul Greengard, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (1990)

Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist & writer

Michael Heidelberger, immunochemist

H. Robert Horvitz, biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)

Jerome Horowitz, AZT

Eric R. Kandel, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize (2000)

Charles Kelman, cataract surgery

Arthur Kornberg, DNA replication, Nobel Prize (1959)

Roger Kornberg, RNA transcription, Nobel Prize (2006) (son of Arthur Kornberg)

Eric Lander, Human Genome Project

Esther Lederberg, geneticist [1]

Joshua Lederberg, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1958)

Rita Levi-Montalcini, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1986)

Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist

Fritz Lipmann, coenzyme A, Nobel Prize (1953)

Otto Loewi, acetylcholine, Nobel Prize (1936)

Abraham Low, neuropsychiatrist, Recovery, Inc. founder

Salvador Luria, bacterial evolution, Nobel Prize (1969)

Lynn Margulis, Gaia theory

Matthew Meselson, DNA replication

Otto Meyerhof, glycolysis, Nobel Prize (1922)

Stanley Miller, Miller-Urey experiment

Hermann Muller, geneticist, Nobel Prize (1946) (Jewish mother)

Daniel Nathans, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1978)

Marshall Nirenberg, genetic code, Nobel Prize (1968)

Gregory Pincus, contraceptive pill

Karl Pribram, neurologist

Stanley Prusiner, neurologist, Nobel Prize (1997)

Martin Rodbell, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)

Albert Sabin, oral polio vaccine

Jonas Salk, polio vaccine

Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist, Nobel Prize (1977)

Albert Schatz, streptomycin

Béla Schick, diphtheria test

Rudolf Schoenheimer, radioactive tracers

Alexander Shulgin, pharmacologist, populariser of ecstasy

Leo Sternbach, valium

Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)

Max Tishler, synthetic vitamins

Harold Varmus, virologist, Nobel Prize (1989)

George Wald, retina pigmentation, Nobel Prize (1967)

Selman Waksman, streptomycin, Nobel Prize (1952)

Charles Weissmann, interferon cloning

Alexander S. Wiener hematologist and co-discoverer of the Rh factor

Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist, Nobel Prize (1977)

Charles Yanofsky, geneticist

Laurie Rowen, Biologist

Ralph Alpher, background radiation, nucleosynthesis

John Bahcall, astrophysicist

Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967)

Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952) (naturalized citizen)

David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science

Gregory Breit, physicist

Leon Cooper, BCS theory, Nobel Prize (1972)

Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics

Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist

Richard Feynman, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always rejected to appear in lists as this one, and other lists or books that classified people by race [1][2][3])

David Finkelstein, physicist

James Franck, physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)

Edward Fredkin, digital physicist

Jerome Friedman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1990)

Murray Gell-Mann, quarks, Nobel Prize (1969)

Sheldon Glashow, physicist, Nobel Prize (1979)

Donald A. Glaser, bubble chamber, Nobel Prize (1960)

Roy Glauber, physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)

Samuel Goudsmit, electron spin

Brian Greene, string theorist

Herbert Goldstein, Columbia physicist, author of standard textbook on classical mechanics.

David Gross, string theorist, Nobel Prize (2004)

Alan Guth, cosmic inflation

Eugene Guth, polymer physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics

Robert Herman, cosmology, background radiation, operations research

Robert Hofstadter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)

Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist

Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer

Daniel Kleppner, atomic research

Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)

Rudolf Kompfner, engineer and physicist

Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist [3]

Leon M. Lederman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)

David Morris Lee, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)

Fritz London, quantum chemistry

Theodore Maiman, first operable laser

Albert Michelson, speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907)

Ben Roy Mottelson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1975)

Frank Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Robert)

Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist (brother of Frank)

Douglas D. Osheroff, superfluidity, Nobel Prize (1996)

Jeremiah P. Ostriker, astrophysicist

Abraham Pais, historian of science

Wolfgang Pauli, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1945)

Arno Allan Penzias, background radiation, Nobel Prize (1978)

Martin Lewis Perl, physicist, Nobel Prize (1995)

H. David Politzer, physicist, Nobel Prize (2004)

Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist, Nobel Prize (1944)

Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer

Mark G. Raizen, physicist, quantum physics

Sidney Redner, statistical physics

Frederick Reines, neutrino experiment, Nobel Prize (1995)

Burton Richter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1976)

Carl Sagan, astronomer & science popularizer

Arthur Schawlow, laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize (1981)

John H. Schwarz, string theorist

Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)

Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)

Emilio G. Seg

Answer 3

uh... I wonder what the real motivation is behind this question.

Albert Einstein

Answer 4

Albert Einstein

Answer 5

Viktor Frankl

He was very important in the field of psychology.

Answer 6

Albert Freakin Einstein!!