To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1032 ) 7/25/2002 8:29:49 AM From: Scumbria Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3959 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?yahoodi.com 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