List of Jewish American physicists explained

This is a list of notable Jewish American physicists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Stephen Brunauer, Hungarian physicist who came to United States to study sciences. Inventor of BET theory and porous Portland cement.
• Albert Einstein, German-born, later naturalized American theoretical physicist who is known for developing the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize (1921).
• Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race^{[1] [2] [3]})
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist^[4]
• Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light,and disproved the existence of the luminous ether.^[5]
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb"
• Carl Sagan, one of the most prominent astrophysicists who is known for his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
• Eric Weinstein (born 1965), mathematical physicist^[6]
• 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^[7]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Don't You have Time to Think?, Richard P. Feynman (Edited by Michelle Feynman), Penguin Book, 2006, pages 234-236, in letters answering Tina Levitan, and considering her book Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize an "adventure in prejudice"
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20061026163308/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/12/bofey12.xml The Daily Telegraph
3. Web site: Richard Feynman . 2008-03-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090216224028/http://www.dimaggio.org/Heroes/richard_feynman.htm . 2009-02-16 .
4. Web site: Lanczos biography . 2013-05-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120210055608/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html . 2012-02-10 .
5. [Albert A. Michelson]
6. Web site: 2013-05-23. Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to physics' biggest problems Marcus du Sautoy. 2021-09-09. the Guardian. en.
7. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html