List of Jewish inventors

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Charles Adler [1] horn-actuated traffic lights
Robert Adler remote control
Selig Percy Amoils [2] ophthalmologist; Cryoprobe
Zora Arkus-Duntov co-designer of Corvette sports car
Herman Aron [9] invented the electric meter
Hertha Ayrton [3] Draughtsmen's tools
Ralph Baer first video game console, the Magnavox Oddessy
Itzhak Bentov[4] Remote controlled cardiac catheter
(US Patent 3605725 September 1971 Bentov)
Lodewyk van Berken[5] 1456: invented scaif, a diamond polishing wheel
Emile Berliner [1] inventor of gramophone
Ludwig Blattner [1] Blattnerphone sound recording machine
Samuel Blum co-inventor of laser eye surgery LASIK
Baruch Blumberg and Irving Millman vaccine for Hepatitis B
Gustav Bucky radiologist bucky grid x-ray
Joel Davidson 1954: 100% solar powered vehicle = co-inventor
Carl Djerassi[6], Gregory Pincus[7], and Frank Colton[8] oral contraceptive, antihistamines
Albert Einstein theory of relativity (mass-energy equivalence), 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for explanation of the photoelectric effect
Paul Eisler inventor of printed circuit board
Gertrude Elion [1] anti-leukemia drugs Nobel Prize (1988) in medicine zovirax
Joel Engel co-inventor of cellular technology
Sam Fedida [1] 1971: inventor of Viewdata
Joseph Friedman inventor of flexistraw
Dennis Gabor holography: 1971 Nobel Prize in physics
Uziel Gal [1] "Uzi" sub-machine gun
Joseph Gerber [1] photoplotter, photocutter, Gerber variable scale, 650 US and foreign patents awarded
David Gestetner [9] duplicator
Charles Ginsburg video tape machine
Donald Glaser bubble chamber Noble Prize (1960) in physics
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes Kodachrome[10] [11]
Emanuel Goldberg contact camera Zeiss
Sylvan Goldman [1] shopping cart
Peter Carl Goldmark [1] vinyl record
Ruth Handler Barbie doll
Waldemar Haffkine developed vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague and tested them on himself.[10]
Julius Hess 1922: incubator for premature babies the world's first nursery
Basil Hirschowitz flexible endoscope
Gabriel Iddan video-camera-in-a-capsule (swallowable)
Philippe Kahn camera phone[11]
Theodore von Karman [1] father of supersonic flight
Charles Kelman cataract surgery
Rudolf Kompfner inventor of traveling wave tube
Arthur Korn[12] forerunner of the fax machine
Arthur Kornberg 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:[13] discovered "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".[14][15]
Roger D. Kornberg 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: discovered "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" (the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA).[16][15]
Harold Kosoff free piston engine & battery powered baby swing
Raymond Kurzweil Reading Machine
Melvyn Jérémie Lafitte inventor of non-invasive ANS monitoring
Hedy Lamarr [1] spread-spectrum radio technology
Edwin Land [1] Polaroid camera
Lev Landau [1] 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for theory of superfluidity. Also co-discovered the density matrix method in quantum mechanics, the quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of second order phase transitions, the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, the explanation of Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, and the two-component theory of neutrinos.
Robert Langer transdermal delivery systems
Jerome Lemelson inventor 500 patents
Levi ben Gershon inventor of Jacob's staff
Julius Lilienfeld 1928: invented transistor
Theodore Maiman co-inventor of LASER
Siegfried Marcus [1] 1870: mobile gasoline combustion engine
Albert Abraham Michelson [1] Inventor of Interferometer, Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
Hinda Miller [1] co-inventor of the first sports bra Jogbra
Michel Mirowski and Morton Mower implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD
Georges Montefiore-Levi the inventor of phosphorus bronze
Pedro Nunes mathematician inventor of the Nonius
Egon Orowan several inventions
Stanford Ovshinsky amorphous solar cells
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira deaf-mute language
Ron Popeil owner of Ronco; father of infomercials (Jewish father)
Cyril Pullin inventor, engineer and motorcycle race driver
Jacob Rabinow inventor Vice President of CDC scanning and sorting machines
Robert Rines invention of sonogram sonar
Harold Rosen geosynchronous satellite
Samuel Ruben inventor of Duracell mercury batteries
Benjamin Rubin vaccination needle
Reinhold Rudenberg [12] electron microscope
Jonas Salk [1] Developed polio (poliomyelitis) vaccine, wiping out polio in the civilized world.
Nahum Salomon manufacturer of bicycles; saccharin industry; introduced sewing machine in England
George D. Sax invented drive-through banking and instant loans
Arthur Schawlow co-inventor of LASER MASER Nobel Prize (1981) in physics (Jewish father)
Abraham Schreiner cracked petroleum kerosene Boryslaw Galicia
David Schwartz [17] inventor of Dirigible Zeppelin
Raymond Scott sequencer portable synthesizer
Joseph Slepian Westinghouse Electric Corporation = ADR
Joel Spira solid-state electronic dimmer
Leo Sternbach invention of Valium and Librium Hoffmann-La Roche
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis blue jeans
Leo Szilard [1] co-invented nuclear fission reactor 1955),First nuclear reactor 1942,

with (Enrico Fermi),Patent Electron Microscope (1931)
Max Tishler poultry disease antibiotic synthesizing of B2
Selman Waksman [1] streptomycin Nobel Prize (1952) in medicine
Joseph Weber ammonia microwave amplifier,
Chaim Weizmann [1] Industrial fermentation: used Clostridium acetobutylicum to produce acetone, used in the manufacture of cordite, critical to the Allies of World War I.
Yakov Zel'dovich Zel'dovich Mechanism: (oxidation of nitrogen). Also: prediction of characteristics of ultracold neutrons, and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Paul Zoll co-inventor of external pacemaker and monitor

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t [1]
  2. ^ Jewish: American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p. 271; online at [2]; inventor: Web site of the President of South Africa: [3]
  3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  4. ^ Review of his book, "The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation" Biblio.com booksellers calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Accessed 20 Oct 2006
  5. ^ The Diamond Invention. Chapter 11 by Edward Jay Epstein
  6. ^ [4] "I literally came as a refugee. I came during the Hitler days. Both my parents and I were Jewish so we had to leave."
  7. ^ [5] "Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America"
  8. ^ [6]
  9. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
  10. ^ Waldemar Haffkine: Pioneer of Cholera vaccine at American Society for Microbiology
  11. ^ [7]
  12. ^ [8] "German Jewish inventor of the first practical system to send photos over telephone wires."
  13. ^ together with Severo Ochoa
  14. ^ Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill (2005). Arthur Kornberg's Discovery of DNA Polymerase, I. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 46.
  15. ^ a b Winning Nobel Prizes seems to run in one family's chemistry - and biology by Joe Eskenazi, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  16. ^ Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  17. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
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