List of British Jewish scientists
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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.
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