# List of British Jewish scientists

List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

## Physicists

* Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor
* Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
* Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicist
* Moses Blackman
* David Bohm, physicist, philosopher
* Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist
* Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism)
* Samuel Devons, physicist
* Cyril Domb, physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
* Paul Eisler, inventor of the printed circuit board
* Michael Fisher
* Otto Robert Frisch
* Herbert Frohlich
* Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1971
* Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, scientist and inventor
* Jeffrey Goldstone
* Ian Grant
* Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist
* Herbert Huppert, 1987
* Brian David Josephson, physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize
* George Kalmus, 1988
* Andrew Keller
* Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987
* Rudolf Kompfner, invented the traveling wave tube
* Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist
* Nicholas Kurti, physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67
* Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist and politician
* Henry Lipson
* Sir Ben Lockspeiser
* Stanley Mandelstam
* Kurt Mendelssohn
* Leon Mestel, astronomer
* F.R. Nunes Nabarro
* Rudolf Peierls
* Michael Pepper
* Sir Joseph Rotblat, physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
* Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber
* Sir Arthur Schuster
* Dennis Sciama, FRS, cosmologist
* David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
* Sir Francis Simon
* David Tabor
* Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist
* Felix Weinberg
* Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984
* Alec David Young, aero-engineer
* John Ziman

## Chemists

* Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize
* Sir Arnold Burgen
* Sir Roy Calne
* Jack David Dunitz, chemist
* Martin Fleischmann, chemist
* Rosalind Franklin, physical chemist and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA
* Eugen Glueckauf
* Sir Ian Heilbron
* Walter Heitler
* Sir Aaron Klug, physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel Prize
* Harold Kroto, discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
* Raphael Meldola
* Alfred Mond, chemist
* Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist
* Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist
* Albert Neuberger, chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger
* Friedrich Paneth
* Max Perutz, molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize
* Michael Polanyi, chemist; naturalised British 1939
* Ralph Raphael
* Michael Rossmann
* Jeremy Sanders
* Anthony Segal
* Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist
* Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry
* Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist
* Chaim Weizmann, acetone production; first president of Israel

## Biologists

* Saul Adler
* Ephraim Anderson, microbiologist
* Charlotte Auerbach
* Dame Val Beral, breast cancer researcher
* Walter Bodmer, geneticist
* Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, professor of pharmacology
* Sydney Brenner, molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize
* Leslie Brent
* Edith Bülbring, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
* Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize
* Sir Philip Cohen, biologist
* Sydney Cohen, pathologist
* Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 18th-century botanist
* Raymond Dwek, biologist
* Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus
* Wilhelm Feldberg, pharmacologist
* Sir Alan Fersht, protein folding
* Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist
* Ian Glynn
* Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria
* Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)
* Hans Gruneberg, biologist
* Sir Ludwig Guttmann, neurologist
* Sir Henry Harris
* Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher
* Sir Gabriel Horn
* Alick Isaacs, virologist, interferon
* David Ish-Horowicz
* Sir Bernard Katz, biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize
* David Keilin, enzymologist
* Sir Hans Kornberg
* Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist
* Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize
* Sir John Krebs, zoologist
* Roland Levinsky, biologist
* Michael Levitt
* Hans Lissmann
* Joel Mandelstam
* Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist
* César Milstein, immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize
* Leslie Orgel, evolutionary biologist
* Guido Pontecorvo
* Juda Quastel
* Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983
* Steven Rose, biologist
* Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)
* Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, entomologist
* Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
* Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author
* Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, first Jewish FRS, elected 1727
* Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist
* John Vane, pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)
* Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist
* Robert Winston, Baron Winston, fertility expert and broadcaster
* Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist and broadcaster
* John Yudkin, physiologist and nutritionist
* Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist

## Mathematicians and statisticians

* Abraham Manie Adelstein, statistician
* Hertha Ayrton, mathematician and engineer
* Laurence Baxter, statistician
* Abram Besicovitch, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
* Selig Brodetsky, mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and broadcaster
* Paul Cohn, algebraist
* H.E. Daniels, statistician
* Philip Dawid, statistician
* Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician
* Albrecht Frohlich
* David Glass, demographer
* Sir Samuel Goldman, British government statistician
* Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics
* Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician
* Eugene Grebenik, demographer
* Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial science
* John Hajnal, demographer
* Hans Heilbronn
* Thomas Körner, mathematician
* Ruth Lawrence, mathematician and child prodigy
* Leone Levi, statistician
* Kurt Mahler, mathematician
* Sir Claus Moser, statistician
* Louis Mordell, number theorist
* Bernhard Neumann
* Richard Rado, mathematician
* Klaus Roth, mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal
* Bernard Silverman, statistician
* David Spiegelhalter, statistician
* James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician

## Computer scientists

* Samson Abramsky, computer scientist
* David Deutsch, quantum computing pioneer
* I.J. Good, cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer
* David Levy, computer chess expert
* Leo Marks, cryptographer and screenwriter
* Max Newman, mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)
* Gordon Plotkin, computer scientist
* Leslie Valiant, computer scientist; parallel computation

## Economists

* Lord Bauer, economist
* Samuel Brittan, economist
* Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist
* Noreena Hertz, economist and activist
* Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
* Nicholas Kaldor, economist
* Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher
* Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born)
* Ludwig Lachmann, economist
* Harold Laski, economist
* Alexander Nove, economist
* Sigbert Prais, economist
* David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism)
* Arthur Seldon, economist
* Sir Hans Singer, economist
* Piero Sraffa, economist
* Lord Nicholas Stern, economist
* Basil Yamey, economist

## Social scientists

* Roy Clive Abraham, linguist
* Mark Abrams, sociologist
* Michael Balint, psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
* Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
* Basil Bernstein, linguist
* Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics
* Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
* Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory
* Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist
* Norbert Elias, sociologist
* Herman Finer, political scientist
* Samuel Finer, political scientist
* Sir Moses I. Finley, historian and sociologist
* Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
* Eduard Fraenkel, philologist
* Anna Freud, child psychoanalyst
* Norman Geras, professor of Government
* Morris Ginsberg
* Max Gluckman, anthropologist
* Frieda Goldman-Eisler, psycholinguist
* Theodor Goldstücker, orientalist
* Jean Gottmann, professor of geography, Oxford University
* Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
* Paul Hirst, social theorist (Jewish mother)
* Marie Jahoda, psychology of discrimination
* Melanie Klein, child psychoanalyst
* Paul Klemperer, economist
* Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish
* Steven Lukes, political scientist
* Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and humanist
* Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE
* Isaac Schapera, anthropologist
* Edward Ullendorff, linguist