Physics and Chemistry
- Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
- Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics; Wolf Prize in Physics (2012)
- David Deutsch – quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
- Joshua Jortner and Rafi Levine – molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
- Josef Imry – physicist
- Aaron Katzir – physical chemistry,
- Ephraim Katzir – immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985) The fourth President of Israel List of Presidents of Israel
- Zvi Lipkin – physicist
- Mordehai Milgrom – Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
- Yuval Ne'eman – the "Eightfold way"
- Asher Peres – quantum theory
- Giulio Racah – spectroscopy
- Nathan Rosen – EPR paradox
- Nathan Seiberg – string theory
- Dan Shechtman – quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
- Igal Talmi – nuclear physics
- Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
- Chaim Weizmann – acetone production
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