List of Jewish American physicists

"This is a list of famous Jewish American Physicists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans."

* Ralph Alpher, background radiation, nucleosynthesis
* 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
* 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 Herman, cosmology, background radiation, operations research
* 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 [http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lanczos.html]
* Rolf Landauer, physicist, information theory
* 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
* Mark G. Raizen, physicist, quantum physics
* 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 [ [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750171,00.html] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."]
* Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
* Edward Witten, mathematical physicist
* George Zweig, quarks

ee also

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

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