Which one of these Jewish scientists do you admire the most, and which one contributed the most to quality of life for the human race?
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Albert Einstein -- The most famous and influential scientist of all time
Richard Feynman -- 'The greatest scientific mind since World War II '
Niels Bohr -- Nobel prize-winning Physicist: atomic structure
Carl Sagan -- astronomer and popular science author; made book and TV series 'Cosmos'
Rita Levi-Montalcini -- winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on Nerve Growth factor (with Stanley Cohen)
Jonas Salk -- Developed the first polio vaccine.
Edward Teller -- Physicist, 'father of the hydrogen bomb'
Emile Durkheim -- founder of modern sociology
Wolfgang Pauli -- discoverer of the Exclusion Principle and the neutrino
Hans Bethe -- Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967
Georges Charpak -- won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 for his particle detector
Gregory Pincus -- developed the first practical oral contraceptive pill
George WALD -- Nobel Price in Medicine for work contributing to our understanding of vision.
Albert Sabin -- Developed the improved live polio vaccine.
Selman Waksman -- Microbiologist, 1952 Nobel Prize winner in physiology and medicine
Leo Szilard -- Physicist, proved the possiblily of a nuclear chain reaction in 1933.
Ferdinand Cohn -- one of the founders of bacteriology
Franz Boas -- 20th century anthropologist-founder of the relativistic, culture-centred school of anthropology
Lev Landau -- Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Murray Gell-Mann -- Nobel prize in physics 1969. Introduced 'quarks'.
Hans Krebs -- 1953 Nobel Prize for the insight into the fundamental metabolic pathways ('Krebs bicycle')
Juri Lotman -- author of 'Semiotics and the History of Culture
Isidor Rabi -- Nobel prize in physics in 1944
Fritz Haber -- winner of the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1918, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
Albert Michelson -- Nobel Prize for Physics 1907
Tadeus Reichstein -- Nobel Prize for Medicine 1950
Stanley Cohen -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, for work in experimental embryology
Lise Meitner -- (1878-1968) Austrian physicist, discovery of nuclear fission
Herbert Brown -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: for his work in the borane-organoborane area
Arno Penzias -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, studied interstellar isotopes
Hermann Muller -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for work on biological effects of radiation
Howard Temin -- 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Jack Steinberger -- Particle Physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize
Douglas Osheroff -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, for work in superfluidity
Aaron Klug -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, for work on X-ray analysis of biomolecules
Leon Lederman -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, 1988
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -- Nobel prize winner in Physics, developed laser-cooling technology
Joshua Lederberg -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine, discovered viral transduction
Cesar Milstein -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: field of immunology
Immanuel Velikovsky -- Polymath genius, astrophysicist, historian, linguist, encyclopedist
Jack Steinberger -- Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1988
Jule Gregory Charney -- Meteorologist, chair of the U.S. Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP)
William Herschel -- astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus
Stanley Prusiner -- Nobel prize winner in Medicine: for the discovery of Prions, infectious proteins
Daniel Nathans -- Nobel prize in Medicine: for restriction analysis of Simian Virus 40 DNA
Roald Hoffmann -- Nobel prize winner in Chemistry: field of electronic structures
Martin Perl -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: discoverer of the Tau Lepton
David Lee -- Nobel prize winner in Physics: for work on superfluidity
Harold Kroto -- Nobel prize-winner in Chemistry, discoverer of C60 |
