List of British Jewish scientists
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List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor[1]

Edward Neville da Costa Andrade[2]

Sir Michael Berry,[3] mathematical physicist[4]

Moses Blackman[5]

David Bohm,[6] physicist, philosopher

Sir Hermann Bondi,[7] Austrian-born British cosmologist

Max Born,[8][9] physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism)[10]

Samuel Devons, physicist[4]

Cyril Domb,[3] physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists

Paul Eisler,[11][12] inventor of the printed circuit board

Michael Fisher[3]

Otto Robert Frisch[13][14]

Herbert Frohlich[15]

Dennis Gabor,[16][17][18] Nobel Prize for Physics 1971

Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons,[19] scientist and inventor

Jeffrey Goldstone[4]

Ian Grant[4]

Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist[20]

Herbert Huppert, 1987[4]

Brian David Josephson,[17] physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize

George Kalmus, 1988[4]

Andrew Keller[21]

Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987[4]

Rudolf Kompfner,[22] invented the traveling wave tube

Hans Kronberger,[23] nuclear physicist

Nicholas Kurti,[24] physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67[25]

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell,[26] physicist and politician

Henry Lipson[15]

Sir Ben Lockspeiser[15]

Stanley Mandelstam[4]

Kurt Mendelssohn[27]

Leon Mestel, astronomer[28]

F.R. Nunes Nabarro[4]

Rudolf Peierls[29]

Michael Pepper[4]

Sir Joseph Rotblat,[30] physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize

Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber

Sir Arthur Schuster[31]

Dennis Sciama, FRS,[3] cosmologist

David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)

Sir Francis Simon[32]

David Tabor[4]

Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist[33]

Felix Weinberg[4]

Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984[4]

Alec David Young, aero-engineer[4]

John Ziman[3]

Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize[34]

Sir Arnold Burgen[4]

Sir Roy Calne[4]

Jack David Dunitz,[35] chemist

Martin Fleischmann,[36] chemist

Rosalind Franklin,[37] physical chemist and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA

Eugen Glueckauf[14]

Sir Ian Heilbron[38]

Walter Heitler[35]

Sir Aaron Klug,[39] physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel Prize[40]

Harold Kroto,[41] discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish)

Raphael Meldola[42]

Alfred Mond, chemist[43]

Ludwig Mond,[44] chemist and industrialist

Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist[45]

Albert Neuberger,[46] chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger

Friedrich Paneth[47]

Max Perutz,[48] molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize

Michael Polanyi,[49] chemist; naturalised British 1939[50]

Ralph Raphael[29]

Michael Rossmann[35]

Jeremy Sanders

Anthony Segal[4]

Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist[4]

Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry[51]

Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist[52]

Chaim Weizmann,[53] acetone production; first president of Israel

Saul Adler[54]

Ephraim Anderson,[55] microbiologist

Charlotte Auerbach[5]

Dame Val Beral,[56] breast cancer researcher

Walter Bodmer,[57] geneticist

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born,[58] professor of pharmacology

Sydney Brenner,[59] molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize

Leslie Brent[60]

Edith Bülbring,[61] pharmacologist (Jewish mother)

Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize[62]

Sir Philip Cohen,[46] biologist

Sydney Cohen, pathologist[63]

Emanuel Mendes da Costa,[64] 18th-century botanist

Raymond Dwek, biologist[4]

Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus[4]

Wilhelm Feldberg,[5] pharmacologist

Sir Alan Fersht,[35] protein folding

Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist[65]

Ian Glynn[4]

Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria[66]

Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield,[67] neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)

Hans Gruneberg,[68] biologist

Sir Ludwig Guttmann,[69] neurologist

Sir Henry Harris[70]

Philip D'Arcy Hart,[71] medical researcher

Sir Gabriel Horn[4]

Alick Isaacs,[72][73] virologist, interferon

David Ish-Horowicz[4]

Sir Bernard Katz,[74] biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize

David Keilin,[46] enzymologist

Sir Hans Kornberg[4]

Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist[75]

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs,[76] biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize

Sir John Krebs,[77] zoologist

Roland Levinsky,[78] biologist

Michael Levitt[46]

Hans Lissmann[29]

Joel Mandelstam[4]

Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist[79]

César Milstein,[80] immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize

Leslie Orgel,[35] evolutionary biologist

Guido Pontecorvo[29]

Juda Quastel[46]

Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983[4][81]

Steven Rose,[82] biologist

Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild,[83] entomologist

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild[84]

Oliver Sacks,[85] neurologist and author

Isaac de Sequeira Samuda,[86] first Jewish FRS, elected 1727

Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist

John Vane,[35] pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)

Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist[4]

Robert Winston, Baron Winston,[87] fertility expert and broadcaster

Lewis Wolpert,[88] developmental biologist and broadcaster

John Yudkin, physiologist and nutritionist

Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist[89]

Abraham Manie Adelstein,[90] statistician

Hertha Ayrton,[90] mathematician and engineer

Laurence Baxter, statistician[91]

Abram Besicovitch,[92] Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)

Selig Brodetsky,[93] mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jacob Bronowski,[94] mathematician and broadcaster

Paul Cohn, algebraist[95]

H.E. Daniels,[90] statistician

Philip Dawid,[96] statistician

Arthur Erdelyi,[97] mathematician

John Fox, statistician

Albrecht Frohlich[98]

David Glass,[99] demographer

Sir Samuel Goldman,[100] British government statistician

Sydney Goldstein,[101] expert on fluid mechanics

Benjamin Gompertz,[102] mathematician

Eugene Grebenik,[103] demographer

Steven Haberman,[104] professor of actuarial science

John Hajnal, demographer[34]

Hans Heilbronn[105]

Thomas Körner, mathematician[106]

Ruth Lawrence,[107] mathematician and child prodigy

Leone Levi,[108] statistician

Kurt Mahler, mathematician[4]

Sir Claus Moser,[109] statistician

Louis Mordell,[110] number theorist

Bernhard Neumann[4]

Richard Rado,[111] mathematician

Klaus Roth,[112] mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal

Bernard Silverman, statistician[113]

David Spiegelhalter, statistician[114]

James Joseph Sylvester,[115] mathematician

Samson Abramsky, computer scientist[116]

David Deutsch,[3] quantum computing pioneer

I.J. Good,[117] cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer

David Levy,[118] computer chess expert

Leo Marks,[119] cryptographer and screenwriter

Max Newman,[117] mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)

Gordon Plotkin,[117] computer scientist

Leslie Valiant,[117] computer scientist; parallel computation

Lord Bauer,[120] economist

Samuel Brittan, economist

Charles Goodhart,[121] Bank of England economist

Noreena Hertz,[122] economist and activist

Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn,[123] economist: multiplier

Nicholas Kaldor,[123] economist

Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher

Israel Kirzner,[124] economist (UK-born)

Ludwig Lachmann, economist[125]

Harold Laski, economist[126]

Alexander Nove, economist[127]

Sigbert Prais, economist[34]

David Ricardo,[128] economist (converted to Quakerism)

Arthur Seldon,[129] economist

Sir Hans Singer, economist[130]

Piero Sraffa,[123] economist

Lord Nicholas Stern, economist[34][131]

Basil Yamey, economist[34][131]

Roy Clive Abraham,[132] linguist

Mark Abrams,[132] sociologist

Michael Balint,[133] psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)

Zygmunt Bauman,[134] sociologist

Basil Bernstein,[135] linguist

Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics[34][136]

Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born

Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory[34]

Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist[137]

Norbert Elias,[138] sociologist

Herman Finer,[139] political scientist

Samuel Finer,[140] political scientist

Sir Moses I. Finley,[141] historian and sociologist

Meyer Fortes, anthropologist[142]

Eduard Fraenkel, philologist[143]

Anna Freud,[144] child psychoanalyst

Norman Geras,[145] professor of Government[146]

Morris Ginsberg[147]

Max Gluckman, anthropologist[148]

Frieda Goldman-Eisler, psycholinguist[149]

Theodor Goldstücker,[150] orientalist

Jean Gottmann,[151] professor of geography, Oxford University

Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)

Paul Hirst,[152] social theorist (Jewish mother)

Marie Jahoda,[153] psychology of discrimination

Melanie Klein,[154] child psychoanalyst

Paul Klemperer, economist

Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish[34]

Steven Lukes, political scientist[34]

Ashley Montagu,[155] anthropologist and humanist

Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE

Isaac Schapera, anthropologist[34]

Edward Ullendorff, linguist[34]

Lists of Jews

List of British Jews

JYB = Jewish Year Book