List of British Jewish scientists

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, m physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize

Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber

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 crystalographer, 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

Sir 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

John Vane, pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)

Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist

Peter David Jacob Weitzman, biochemist

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 and President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews

Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and broadcaster

Paul Cohn, algebraist

H.E. Daniels, statistician

Philip Dawid, statistician

Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician

John Fox, statistician

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

Marie Jahoda, psychologist

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

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

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