List of Jewish Fellows of the Royal Society

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Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This is a list of religious or ethnic Jews or people of Jewish descent who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society of London.

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  • Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, functional analysis 1932 (JYB 1960, p216)
  • George de Hevesy,[9] Hungarian-born Swedish chemist Nobel Prize (1943) 1939 (JYB 1965, p214)
  • Roald Hoffmann,[9] Polish-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1981) electronic structures 1984
  • Erwin Hahn,[3] U.S. physicist, nuclear spin echoes NMR 2000

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  1. ^ Anthony Tucker, ES Anderson (obituary), The Guardian, March 22, 2006. Accessed 22 June 2006.
  2. ^ JInfo.org list of Jews profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century (Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, edited by Roland Turner, St. James Press, 1988). Accessed 26 March 2006.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n JInfo.org list of Jewish physicists. Accessed 23 March 2006.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g JInfo.org list of Jewish Mathematicians. Accessed 23 March 2006.
  5. ^ Radio National Australia interview with Sir Walter: "I’m half Ashkenazy Jewish myself" Accessed 21 Feb 2007
  6. ^ Fred Pruyn, Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, on theosophy-nw.org. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  7. ^ Professor Sir Hermann Bondi (obituary), The Telegraph (UK), 13 September 2005. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  8. ^ Gustav V. R. Born, The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond on Termessos.de. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Jewish Nobel Prize Winners on Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed 23 March 2006.
  10. ^ Sydney Brenner on sahistory.org.za. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  11. ^ Lyn Smith, excerpt from Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust on the site of Random House UK. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  12. ^ Mary Ellen Bowden, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain: Pharmaceutical Achievers on chemheritage.org. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  13. ^ Joseph Jacobs and Goodman Lipkind, Costa, Emanuel Mendez da, Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-1906), accessed online 29 September 2006.
  14. ^ David B. Ruderman, Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, Princeton University Press (2001), ISBN 0-691-04883-5. Sample chapter online accessed 29 September 2006.
  15. ^ Costa, Anthony da, Jewish Encyclopedia IV p. 289.
  16. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "His was a Jewish family of Russian (partly Polish and partly Lithuanian) origin."
  17. ^ Benjamin Disraeli on Britannia.com. Accessed 13 April 2006.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m JInfo.org list of Jewish Chemists. Accessed 23 March 2006.
  19. ^ Montclair State University: "Martin Fleischmann, now a naturalized British subject, was born March 29, 1927, in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, to Jewish parents." Accessed 13 March 2007. Copied from pages 46-49 of E.F. Mallove's book : "Fire from Ice; Searching for Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furror," John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1991.
  20. ^ Interview by Australian Academy of Sciences: "An Austrian Jew's entry into the British Empire"; accessed 11 November 2006.
  21. ^ JYB 1980 p182; Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Frisch, Otto Robert
  22. ^ Albrecht Fröhlich obituary/biography (PDF) on the site of the Royal Society. Accessed 16 April 2006.
  23. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Oct. 6 1978, p.32
  24. ^ Sydney Goldstein biography on the site of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Says he was "of strong Jewish beliefs." Accessed 26 September 2006.
  25. ^ Database entry on Benjamin Gompertz on the site of the Royal Society. Accessed 16 April 2006.
  26. ^ Paralympics on Thinkquest.org refers to "Ludwig Guttman, a Jewish neurologist and refugee from Nazi Germany". Accessed 16 April 2006. Dr. Uriel Simri on International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: "Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German Jewish doctor" Accessed 19 October 2006
  27. ^ Alick Isaacs on the site of The Gazetteer for Scotland. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  28. ^ a b c d e f g h JInfo.org list of Jews in medical and life sciences. Accessed 26 March 2006.
  29. ^ Sir George Jessel in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911.
  30. ^ Bernard Katz on Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed 26 March 2006.
  31. ^ Database entry on Andrew Keller on the site of the Royal Society. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  32. ^ Aaron Klug autobiography on the NobelPrize.org site. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  33. ^ JInfo.org list of Jewish winners of the Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research. Accessed 26 March 2006.
  34. ^ Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, whonamedit.com, accessed 21 June 2006.
  35. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "born in Linz, Austria, of Jewish parents"
  36. ^ Harold Kroto autobiography, in Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1996, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm., 1997
  37. ^ Jewish Science and Technology Books, accessed 21 June 2006.
  38. ^ Cesar Milstein, Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed 30 June 2006.
  39. ^ Ludwig Mond, Encyclopædia Britannica online. Accessed 30 June 2006.
  40. ^ MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES HAIM Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. Scanned online copy accessed 30 June 2006.
  41. ^ JInfo.org list of Jewish Biomedical and Life Scientists. Comprehensive list. Accessed 31 July 2006.
  42. ^ Martin Sugarman, Jewish RAF Special Operators in Radio Counter Measures with 101 Squadron, Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed 31 July 2006.
  43. ^ Max Blythe, Interview with Sir Gustav Nossal, Australian Academy of Science, 1998. Accessed 31 July 2006.
  44. ^ a b JInfo.org list of Jewish Computer and Information Scientists. Accessed 26 March 2006.
  45. ^ JInfo.org list of Jewish Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry. Accessed 26 March 2006.
  46. ^ Paul Knepper, "Michael Polanyi and Jewish Identity", Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 2005; 35: 263-293. (Subscription site online)
  47. ^ Richard Rado biography, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Accessed online 16 August 2006.
  48. ^ The RETURN Statement: Against the Israeli Law of Return - For the Palestinian Right to Return, archived March 8, 2005 on the Internet Archive.
  49. ^ Joseph Rotblat, 96; Nobel Winner Who Supported Nuclear Disarmament, Los Angeles Times obituary of Joseph Rotblat, reproduced on the site of Pugwash. Accessed online 16 August 2006.
  50. ^ Miriam L. Rothschild Obituary Australian Jewish News 27 December 2005 from Web Archive
  51. ^ Jewish winners of the GM Cancer Foundation Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize on JInfo.org. Accessed 27 August 2006.
  52. ^ Jewish winners of the Frank Nelson Cole Prizes in Algebra and Number Theory on JInfo.org. Accessed 27 August 2006.
  53. ^ Database entry on Isaac de Sequeira Samuda on the site of the Royal Society. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  54. ^ List of Jewish petition signatories, Jews for Justice for Palestinians Accessed 22 November 2006.
  55. ^ Louis (Lou) Siminovitch profile on science.ca. Accessed 27 August 2006.
  56. ^ James Joseph Sylvester on The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  57. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants"
  58. ^ Science Line - Biology and Medicine - Careers Information - Professor Lewis Wolpert, ScienceNet.org, archived on the Internet Archive February 5, 2005. Wolpert is an outspoken atheist, a self-described "atheist reductionist materialist": Robin McKie, Is it all piety in the sky?, The Guardian, March 19, 2006. Accessed online 15 September 2006.
  59. ^ entry on Henry de Worms on the site of the Royal Society. Accessed 18 April 2006.
  60. ^ geniebusters.org, unsigned piece. "However, I am a man of many hats. There are times when I put on my Ludwig Wittgenstein hat, or my Vladimir Arnold hat, or my Robert Alter hat, or my Aryeh Kaplan hat (among many others) and tap into their way of thinking. I am not going to join them, but I am not going to ignore them, either. It's very, very stupid to refuse to learn from 'Jewish physics.'" Accessed 28 September 2006
  61. ^ a b c d e f JInfo.org list of Jewish winners of the US National Medal of Science. Accessed 23 March 2006.
  62. ^ Samuel Kurinsky Jewish Nobel Prize Winners Part IIIA: Biomedical Sciences 1908-1965; Fact Paper 44-IIIA, Hebrew History Federation. Accessed 28 September 2006.
  63. ^ Raoul Bott biography, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Accessed 28 September 2006.
  64. ^ The Jewish 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Jews of all Time (Citadel Press Book, 1994), by Michael Shapiro. Page on www.adherents.com, accessed 26 September 2006, cites him as number 40 on the list.
  65. ^ Gerhard Falk, Biography of Paul Erdos, jboff.com. Accessed 1 October 2006.
  66. ^ Obituary in Nature "A member of a wealthy Italian Jewish family" Accessed 24 Nov 2006.
  67. ^ J J O'Connor and E R Robertson, "Mathemetician Biography -- William Feller", Augarithms, Augsburg College, Volume 6, Number 8, February 12, 2003. Accessed 1 October 2006. However, the William Feller biography on the site of the School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland (also by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson and also accessed 1 October 2006), says that while he was a refugee from the Nazis, his mother was Roman Catholic and his original surname was not Feller but "as Gian-Carlo Rota put it, a Slavic tongue twister".) Sanford Segal, Mathematicians under the Nazis, Princeton University Press, 2003, p.460 states "…Tornier had collaborated with Willi Feller (who was Jewish)…"
  68. ^ Rebecca Weiner, The Virtual Jewish History Tour: Vienna "Vienna was home to many influential Jews, including Sigmund Freud" accessed 3 October 2006.
  69. ^ Mike Dowling, The Manhattan Project, mrdowling.com. January 22, 2006. Accessed 5 October 2006.
  70. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica (CD-Rom edition) art. GELFAND, IZRAIL MOISEVICH; also, art. Mathematicians lists him among Modern Jewish mathematicians
  71. ^ Jewish Nobel Prize winners in physics, JInfo.org. Accessed 8 October 2006.
  72. ^ Scott F. Gilbert, Induction and the Origins of Developmental Genetics, DevBio, Sinauer Associates. Accessed 8 October 2006.
  73. ^ Hyman, P.E./Moore, D.D., eds. 1998. Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge.
  74. ^ Bob Weintraub, "Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888-1947): Father of Modern Geochemistry and of Crystal Chemistry: "Goldschmidt was born in Zurich to Jewish parents". Accessed 9 October 2006.
  75. ^ Israel Cohen, Jewish Life in Modern Times, originally published Methuen 1914; Book V, Chapter III: Contributions to general culture and progress. Available online at the Virtual Shtetl on ibiblio.org. (TOC.) Accessed 16 October 2006.
  76. ^ Erich Friedman, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Periodic Table of Mathematicians, on the site of Stetson University. Accessed 16 October 2006.
  77. ^ Theodore von Karman: In his own words on the site of Arnold Air Force Base. Accessed 13 October 2006.
  78. ^ Jewish winners of the Gairdner Foundation Award, JInfo.org. Accessed 13 October 2006.
  79. ^ Leopold Kronecker, Leopold Kronecker biography, on the site of the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Accessed 16 October 2006.
  80. ^ a b List of Jewish Scientists and Technicians, jewish-sci-tech-books.com. Accessed 16 October 2006.
  81. ^ J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, Solomon Lefschetz biography, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Accessed 16 October 2006.
  82. ^ List of jewish Nobel prizewinners, Jewish Nobel Prize Winners, Jewish Virtual Library, accessed 16 October 2006
  83. ^ Jewish winners of the Kyoto Prize, JInfo.org. Accessed 18 October 2006.
  84. ^ Jewish Winners of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, JInfo.org. Accessed 23 October 2006
  85. ^ Naomi Segal, UCSF doctor wins Israeli prize, Jewish News Weekly of Northern California, April 12, 1996: "Prusiner, who is Jewish". Accessed 3 October 2006
  86. ^ J J O'Connor and E F Robertson, André Weil biography, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Accessed 18 October 2006
  87. ^ Scientist drawn by mad cow mystery, Palm Beach Post, February 8, 2004. " During World War II, his father, a film distributor, kept their Jewish family in Rio de Janeiro…" Accessed 23 October 2006.
  88. ^ Jewish winners of the Gairdner Foundation award, JInfo.org. Accessed 24 October 2006.
  89. ^ Janet Basu, Fourth Rock from the Sun: Mars discovery puts professor in spotlight, Stanford Today, November/December 1996: "There was a sense that he was a representative of the Jewish people sojourning in America." Accessed 13 Oct 2006.
  90. ^ Jewish winners of the Dirac Medal, JInfo.org. Accessed 24 October 2006.

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