List of Jewish scientists

Uriel Acosta, Portuguese philosopher (raised Catholic)
Theodor Adorno, German philosopher, composer, (father became Protestant, mother Catholic)
Sir Alfred Ayer
Henri Bergson
Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, critic, essayist
Isaiah Berlin, Russian-born British philosopher and historian of ideas
Ernst Bloch, German philosopher
Harold Bloom, U.S. academic
Niels Bohr
Martin Buber, German and Israeli philosopher
Georg Cantor
Noam Chomsky
Hermann Cohen, German philosopher
Morris Raphael Cohen
Norman Cohn, British historian
Noam Chomsky, U.S. linguist, political writer
Jacques Derrida, French philosopher
Émile Durkheim, French sociologist
Alfred Einstein, German-U.S. musicologist, cousin of Albert Einstein
Erik Erikson, U.S. psychologist (mother was Jewish, father was Danish)
Norman Finkelstein, U.S. academic
Sigmund Freud, Austro-Hungarian Viennese "Father of psychoanalysis"
Moshe Greenberg, Israeli scholar of Semitic languages and Bible
Lazar Gulkowitsch, Russian-German philosopher
Zellig Harris, U.S. linguist
Bernard-Henri Levy, French philosopher, journalist, film director
Samuel Hirsch, German rabbi and philosopher
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher, sociologist
Irving Howe, U.S. historian
Edmund Husserl, Austro-Hungarian Viennese and German philosopher and Holocaust victim
Baruch Kimmerling, Israeli sociologist
Israel Kirzner, U.S. economist
Joseph Klausner, Lithuanian-born Israeli scholar of religion
Saul Kripke
Thomas Kuhn, U.S. philosopher of Science
Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-born French philosopher
Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. historian
Maimonides, Spanish-North African philosopher, doctor, rabbi
Herbert Marcuse, German-born U.S. philosopher, sociologist, political scientist
Karl Marx
Abraham Maslow, U.S. psychologist
Benny Morris, Israeli philosopher
Robert Nozick, U.S. political philosopher, critic of John Rawls A Theory of Justice
Nostradamus French philosopher, (raised Catholic)
Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist
Fritz Perls, German psychologist
Philo of Alexandria, Alexandrian (Egypt) philosopher
Daniel Pipes, US Mideast and Islam scholar and researcher
Karl Popper, Austrian philosopher
Yehoshua Porath, Israeli historian
Neil Postman, U.S. media critic
Hilary Putnam
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, German social philosopher (converted to Christianity)
Franz Rosenzweig, German Jewish philosopher
Peter Singer, Australian philosopher
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, espoused Pantheism
Max Stirner, German philosopher
Leo Strauss, German-American philosopher
Alfred Tarski
Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist
Simone Weil, French philosopher (converted to Catholicism)
Otto Weininger, German philosopher
Ruth Westheimer, German-born, Israeli-American sex expert
Ludwig Wittgenstein, German philosopher
Amotz Zehavy, Israeli zoologist, revolutionized the theory of evolution
Howard Zinn, U.S. historian

In physics

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Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer
Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-born Israeli professor of theoretical physics
Hans Bethe
Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist (partial jewish ancestry)
David Bohm, U.S. physicist
Niels Henrik David Bohr, Danish Nobel prize winning physicist, (mother was Jewish)
Max Born, German-born British Nobel prize winning physicist
Herman Branover, Russian-Israeli physicist
Albert Einstein, German-Swiss, U.S. physicist.
Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-British, U.S.-Israeli, engineer, founded Feldenkrais Method
Richard Feynman, U.S. Nobel prize winning physicist
James Franck
Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
Murray Gell-Mann, U.S. physicist
Donald A. Glaser, U.S. physicist, inventor of the bubble chamber
Jesse L. Greenstein, U.S. astronomer
Fritz Haber, German chemist
William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (believed to have some Jewish ancestry)
Heinrich Hertz
Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born U.S. theoretical chemist
Carl G. J. Jacobi
Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and string theory pioneer
Lev Landau, Soviet theoretical physicist
Fritz London
Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
Leon Mestel, British astronomer
Albert A. Michelson
Robert Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist, "father of the atomic bomb"
Wolfgang Pauli
Sir Rudolf Peierls
Yakov I. Perelman, Russian author of popular science books
I. I. Rabi
Giulio Racah, Italian-born Israeli physicist and mathematician
Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer
Mário Schenberg, Brazilian theoretical physicist
Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer, showed that black hole is a possible solution of general relativity's equations
Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-U.S. physicist, discovered anti-proton
Julian Schwinger, U.S. Nobel Prize winning physicist
Otto Stern
Leo Szilard Hungarian-U.S. physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
Edward Teller, Hungarian-U.S. physicist, "father of the hydrogen bomb"
John von Neumann
Steven Weinberg U.S. Nobel prize-winning physicist
Eugene Wigner
Edward Witten

In psychology

See Cognitive science and Psychology

Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst
Solomon Asch, U.S. social psychologist
Evan Balaban, U.S. biologist, neuroscientist
Aaron T. Beck, U.S. cognitive-semantic therapist
Jacob Beck, U.S. perception psychologist
Ursula Bellugi, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
Bruno Bettelheim
Leonard Bloomfield, U.S. linguist
Franz Boas, linguistic anthropologist
Albert S. Bregman, Canadian cognitive scientist
Jerome Bruner
Egon Brunswik, Mathematical Psychologist
Ruth Cohn, German-born psychologist
Noam Chomsky, U.S. psycholinguist
Diana Deutsch, British-born, U.S. cognitive psychologist
Carolyn Drake, British developmental psychologist
Gerald Edelman, U.S. Neuroscientist
Steven Engel, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
Erik Erikson, Danish psychoanalyst
Martha Farah, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
Leon Festinger, U.S. cognitive social psychologist
Jerry Fodor, U.S. cognitive psychologist
Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychoanalyst and logotherapist
Erich Fromm
Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
Erich Fromm, German psychoanalyst
Norman Gerschwind, neuroscientist
Sam Glucksberg, U.S. psycholinguist
Erving Goffman, American social psychologist
Lewis R. Goldberg, U.S. personality psychologist
Kurt Goldstein
Allison Gopnik, Canadian-born U.S. cognitive scientist
Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist
Ervin R. Hafter, U.S. psychoacoustician
Fritz Heider, German mathematical psychologist
Richard Ivry, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
Ray Jackendoff, U.S. cognitive scientist
Jerome Kagan
Daniel Kahneman, Israeli cognitive psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in economics
Boaz Keysar, Israeli-born, U.S. psycholinguist
Melanie Klein, Austrian-born British psychoanalyst
Kurt Koffka, German cognitive theorist and psychologist
Michael Kubovy, U.S. cognitive scientist
George Lakoff, U.S. cognitive scientist
Eric H Lenneberg, U.S. Neurobiologist
Jerome Y Lettvin, U.S. cognitive-Neuroscientist
Daniel Levitin, U.S. cognitive scientist/neuroscientist
Kurt Lewin, U.S. cognitive theorist and psychologist
Richard Lewontin, biologist
Cesare Lombroso
Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist
Gary Marcus, U.S. cognitive scientist
Ellen Markman, U.S. developmental psychologist
Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
Andrew Meltzoff, U.S. cognitive-developmental psychologist
Carolyn Mervis, U.S. cognitive psychologist, developmental neuroscientist
Stanley Milgram, U.S. social psychologist
Walter Mischel
Mortimer Mishkin, neuroscientist
Jeffrey Mogil, Canadian neurogeneticist
Ashley Montagu, anthropologist
Jakob Moreno, German Psychologist
David Navon, Israeli cognitive scientist
Ulric Neisser, U.S. cognitive psychologist
Isabelle Peretz, Belgian-born cognitive neuroscientist
Fritz Perls, Gestalt psychologist
Steven Pinker, Canadian cognitive evolutionary psychologist
Michael Posner, U.S. cognitive scientist, cognitive neuroscientist
Karl Pribram, U.S. cognitive scientist
Otto Rank
Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Theodor Reik
Irvin Rock, U.S. perception, Gestalt psychologist
Robert Rosenthal, U.S. social psychologist
Lee Ross, U.S. social cognition psychologist
Julian Rotter
Edgar Rubin
Oliver Sacks, British-U.S. neurologist and author
Jenny Saffran, U.S. developmental psychologist
Ivan Sag, U.S. linguist
Edward Sapir, U.S. Linguistic Anthropologist
Stanley Schachter, U.S. psychologist
Hanna Segal, Polish-born British psychoanalyst
Herbert Simon, U.S. Cognitive Psychologist
Dan Slobin, U.S. cognitive psychologist
John Sloboda, British cognitive psychologist (Jewish mother)
Robert Sternberg, U.S. psychologist
Saul Sternberg, U.S. mathematical psychologist
Paula Tallal, U.S. cognitive neuroscientist
Amos Tversky, Israeli cognitive psychologist
Barbara Tversky, U.S. cognitive psychologist
Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist
Brian Wandell, U.S. perception psychologist
David Wechsler
Max Wertheimer
Terry Winograd, U.S. cognitive scientist

In sociology

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External links

JInfo.org, a comprehensive set of lists of Jewish contributions to world civilization. Fuller (copyrighted) lists can be found there.

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