List of Jewish American physicists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American Physicists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Ralph Alpher, background radiation
- John Bahcall, astrophysicist
- Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) (Jewish mother)
- Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
- David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science
- Gregory Breit, physicist
- Leon Cooper, BCS theory, Nobel Prize (1972)
- Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
- Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics
- Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
- Richard Feynman, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
- 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 Hofstadter, physicist, Nobel Prize (1961)
- Herman Kahn, nuclear physicist
- Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer
- Daniel Kleppner, atomic research
- Walter Kohn, physicist, Nobel Prize (1998)
- 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)
- Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist
- 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)
- 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)
- Simon Ramo, physicist, engineer
- 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 Schwarz, string theorist
- Melvin Schwartz, physicist, Nobel Prize (1988)
- Julian Schwinger, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1965)
- Emilio G. Segrè, anti-proton, Nobel Prize (1959)
- 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
- 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[1]
- Eugene Wigner, quantum physicist, Nobel Prize (1963)
- George Zweig, quarks
