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Rita Levi-Montalcini thumbnail
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Emmy Noether thumbnail
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Ilya Prigogine thumbnail
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Sydney Brenner thumbnail
Sydney Brenner
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Chaim Weizmann thumbnail
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
Tadeusz Reichstein thumbnail
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
Paul Ehrenfest thumbnail
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
Ernest Gellner thumbnail
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Adi Shamir thumbnail
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Solomon Asch thumbnail
Solomon Asch
Polish-American psychologist (1907-1996)
Sabina Spielrein thumbnail
Sabina Spielrein
Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942)
Hermann Bondi thumbnail
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
Marcel Grossmann thumbnail
Marcel Grossmann
mathematician (1878-1936)
Nathan Rosen thumbnail
Nathan Rosen
American-Israeli physicist
Hans Hahn thumbnail
Hans Hahn
Austrian mathematician (1879–1934)
Richard Courant thumbnail
Richard Courant
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
Amos Tversky thumbnail
Amos Tversky
Israeli psychologist (1937–1996)
Amir Pnueli thumbnail
Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems
Liviu Librescu thumbnail
Liviu Librescu
Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor, killed in Virginia Tech massacre
Saharon Shelah
Israeli mathematician
Nathaniel Wolff Wallich
surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India (1786-1854)
Hilda Geiringer
Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
Edwin Ernest Salpeter thumbnail
Edwin Ernest Salpeter
Austrian–Australian–American astrophysicist (1924–2008)
Sofya Yanovskaya
Russian mathematician (1896–1966)
Rózsa Péter thumbnail
Rózsa Péter
Hungarian mathematician (1905-1977)
Noga Alon
Israeli mathematician
Paul Bernays
Swiss mathematician (1888–1977)
Walter Mischel
Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist
Abraham Lempel
Israeli computer scientist (1936–2023)
Beppo Levi thumbnail
Beppo Levi
Italian mathematician (1875-1961)
Aaron Aaronsohn
Jewish agronomist, botanist, and Zionist activist (1876-1919)
Max Gluckman
South African anthropologist (1911–1975)
Szolem Mandelbrojt
French mathematician (1899-1983)
Otto Fenichel
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and scientist
Francis Simon
German-British chemist
Friedrich Adolf Paneth
Austrian-born British chemist
Mário Schenberg
Brazilian physicist (1914–1990)
Doron Zeilberger
Israeli mathematician
Daniel Hershkowitz
Israeli politician, mathematician and rabbi
Leo Sachs
Israeli molecular biologist (1924-2013)
Abraham Skorka
Argentine biophysicist, rabbi and author
Jakub Karol Parnas
Polish biochemist and politician (1884–1949)
Karl Koller
Austrian ophthalmologist (1857–1944)
Adolf Yushkevich thumbnail
Adolf Yushkevich
Soviet historian of mathematics and leading expert in medieval Eastern mathematics (1906-1993)
Aharon Dolgopolsky
Russian-Israeli linguist (1930-2012)
Richard Gans
German physicist (1880–1954)
Felix Philipp Kanitz
Austro-Hungarian archaeologist (1829-1904)
Raphaël Salem
French mathematician of Greek origin (1898-1963)
Amédée Mannheim
French mathematician and artillerist (1831–1906)
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
Russian mathematician (1919–1984)
Paul Cohn
German mathematician (1924-2006)
Alexander Kronrod
Soviet mathematician (1921–1986)
Israel Gohberg
Russian mathematician (1928-2009)
George Rosenkranz
Jewish Hungarian Mexican chemist and executive, bridge player and writer
Alexander Lubotzky thumbnail
Alexander Lubotzky
Israeli mathematician and former politician
Hayyim Selig Słonimski thumbnail
Hayyim Selig Słonimski
Polish-Jewish mathematician and inventor
Robert von Lieben
Austrian physicist (1878-1913)
Selig Brodetsky
Russian-born English mathematician
Jerusha Jhirad
Indian physician (1891–1984)
Hugo Salus
Czech physician (1866–1929)