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page 2Jewish American scientists
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist

William Howard Stein
American biochemist (1911–1980)
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist (1941-2015)
David Julius
American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
Harry Markowitz
American economist (1927–2023)
Howard Temin
American geneticist
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist (1920–2021)
Gary Ruvkun
American geneticist
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist

Albert B. Sabin
Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)

James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician (1814-1897)

Brian Greene
American physicist
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist (1925-1998)
H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
Harold E. Varmus
American scientist
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Drew Weissman
American physician-scientist (born 1959)
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist
Irvin Yalom
American psychotherapist and writer
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist and chronobiologist

Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Mária Telkes
Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)
Victor Weisskopf
Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)

George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)

Joseph Greenberg
American linguist
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist

Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist

Jesse Douglas
American mathematician (1897–1965)

Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)

Peter Lax
American mathematician of Hungarian origin (1926–2025)

Erich Auerbach
German philologist (1892-1957)
Jim Simons
American mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024)

Andrew Grove
Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936–2016)
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Efim Zelmanov
Russian-american mathematician

John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College

George Lakoff
American linguist

Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist

Paul Halmos
American mathematician (1916–2006)
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher (b. 1957)

Edwin H. Land
American scientist and inventor (1909–1991)

Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)

Isadore Singer
American mathematician (1924–2021)

Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist

Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Olga Taussky-Todd
mathematician (1906–1995)

Paul R. Ehrlich
American biologist and environmentalist (1932–2026)

Martin Edward Hellman
American cryptologist (born 1945)

William Labov
American linguist (1927–2024)
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950)
Ralph Asher Alpher
American cosmologist (1921–2007)
Moshe Arens
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset, and professor of aeronautics (1925-2019)

Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)

Rudolf Arnheim
German psychologist (1904-2007)

Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)