List of Refugees - Science

Science

  • Gustav Victor Rudolf Born - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
  • Max Born - Nobel Prize for physics - German-Jewish refugee
  • Edith Bulbring - pharmacologist - German-Jewish refugee
  • Carl Djerassi - the inventor of the first contraceptive pill. He is an Austrian refugee
  • John Dollond - inventor of the achromatic lens. He founded Dollond and Aitchison; descended from Huguenot refugees
  • Albert Einstein - one of the world's most famous scientists - German-Jewish refugee
  • Alexander Grothendieck - mathematician - German-Jewish refugee
  • Robert Fano - physicist - Italian-Jewish refugee
  • Ugo Fano - physicist - Italian-Jewish refugee
  • Bernard Katz - Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist - German-Jewish refugee
  • Sir Hans Krebs - Nobel Prize-winning scientist - German-Jewish refugee
  • Sir John Krebs - zoologist - son of Sir Hans Krebs
  • Liviu Librescu, physicist; fled from Romania to Israel
  • Lord (Claus) Moser - British professor of statistics and head of the Government Statistical Service - Austrian-Jewish refugee

Walter Kohn - Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize (1998) in Chemistry for Density-Functional Theory; left Austria for England via Kindertransport

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