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This is a list of famous Jewish American Physicists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... A Jewish American (also commonly American Jew) is an American (a citizen of the United States) of Jewish descent who maintains a connection to the Jewish community, either through actively practicing Judaism or through cultural and historical affiliation. ... This page is a list of Jews. ...

• Ralph Alpher, background radiation
• John Bahcall, astrophysicist
• Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) (Jewish mother)
• 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)
• Albert Einstein ((German)) theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) (naturalized citizen)
• Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics
• Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
• Richard Feynman, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• 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 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) (Jewish father, half-Jewish mother) (naturalized citizen)
• 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) (naturalized citizen)
• Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer
• 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) (Jewish father)
• John H. Schwarz, string theorist
• Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Emilio G. Segrè, anti-proton, Nobel Prize (1959) (naturalized citizen)
• Lee Smolin, loop quantum gravity
• Alan Sokal, Sokal Affair
• Jack Steinberger, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
• Otto Stern, physicist, Nobel Prize (1943)
• Andrew Strominger, string theory
• Leonard Susskind, string theory (Jewish father)
• Leo Szilard, nuclear physicist (naturalized citizen)
• Edward Teller, nuclear physicist
• Steven Weinberg, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002) physicist. During World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons^[1]
• Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
• Edward Witten, mathematical physicist
• George Zweig, quarks

Ralph Asher Alpher (born 1921) is a U.S. cosmologist. ... John N. Bahcall (born December 30, 1934) is an American astrophysicist. ... Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the USA. // A stamp from Guyana commemorating Felix Bloch. ... David Bohm. ... Photograph of Gregory Breit. ... Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. ... “Einstein” redirects here. ... Paul Sophus Epstein (Warsaw, then part of Imperial Russia, now Poland, March 20, 1883–Pasadena, February 8, 1966) is a Russian- American mathematician/physicist. ... Institute Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach of Cambridge, a renowned nuclear physicist and champion of equal opportunity at MIT and around the world, died December 22 2000 of congestive heart failure at Youville Hospital in Cambridge. ... This article is about the physicist. ... David Finkelstein (born July 19, 1929, New York City) is currently professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ... James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964) was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Edward Fredkin was an early pioneer of digital physics (in recent work he uses the term digital philosophy (DP)). His main contributions include his work on reversible computing and cellular automata. ... Jerome Isaac Friedman (born 1930) is a U.S. physicist. ... Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ... Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Donald Arthur Glaser (b. ... Roy Jay Glauber (born 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. ... Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck. ... Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. ... Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics, widely considered to be one of the best books on the subject. ... David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although hes stated to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on 09/27/2006, that the second area is included in the first one). ... Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. ... Eugene Guth Eugene Guth (Born in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. ... Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 - November 17, 1990) was the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. ... Herman Kahn, May 1965 Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a military strategist and systems theorist employed at RAND Corporation, USA. // Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Kahn grew up in the Bronx, then in Los Angeles following his parents divorce. ... Theodore von Kármán (SzÅ‘llÅ‘skislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. ... Daniel Kleppner is the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT and director of the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. ... A banner on a light pole in the University of California, Santa Barbara, commemorating that Walter Kohn won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. ... Rudolf Kompfner (1909 – 1977) was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling wave tube (TWT). ... Lanczos redirects here. ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900–March 30, 1954) was a German-born American physicist for whom the London force is named. ... Theodore Maiman. ... Albert Abraham Michelson. ... Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926) is an American-Danish physicist. ... Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 – February 3, 1985) was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was later the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. ... J. Robert Oppenheimer[1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. ... Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. ... Jeremiah (Jerry) Paul Ostriker (b. ... Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. ... This article is about the Austrian-Swiss physicist. ... Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. ... Martin Lewis Perl (b. ... Prof. ... Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ... Simon Ramo (born May 13, 1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. ... Sidney Redner (born 1951) is a Canadian-born physicist and professor of physics at Boston University. ... Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ... Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ... Insert non-formatted text here Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. ... Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921–April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ... John Henry Schwarz John Henry Schwarz (born 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. ... Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. ... Portrait of Emilio Segrè. Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Lee Smolin at Harvard. ... Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a physicist at New York University. ... The Sokal Affair was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal on the editorial staff and readership of a leading journal in the academic humanities. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ... Otto Stern Otto Stern (February 17, 1888 – August 17, 1969) was an German physicist and Nobel laureate. ... American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. ... Leonard Susskind (born 1940[1]) is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum field theory. ... Leó Szilárd (right) working with Albert Einstein. ... Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb. ... Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Weisskopf redirects here. ... Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and... Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... George Zweig was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology. ...

See also

• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences
• List of National Medal of Science winners

This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... The National Medal of Science is an honor given by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields, behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. ...

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