List of British Jewish Scientists - Chemists

Chemists

  • Herbert Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize (1979) (JYB 2005 p215) Born in London - see refs in article
  • Sir Arnold Burgen (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Sir Roy Calne (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Jack David Dunitz, chemist
  • Martin Fleischmann, chemist
  • Rosalind Franklin, physical chemist and crystalographer, helped to discover structure of DNA
  • Eugen Glueckauf (JYB 1980 p182)
  • Sir Ian Heilbron (Encyclopedia Judaica 8:262)
  • Walter Heitler
  • Sir Aaron Klug, physicist & chemist, Nobel Prize (1982) (JYB 2000 p211-2)
  • Harold Kroto, discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, Nobel Prize (1996) (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
  • Raphael Meldola (Encyclopaedia Judaica 11:1290)
  • Alfred Mond, chemist 1928 (Encyclopaedia Judaica 4:1298, 12:241)
  • Ludwig Mond, chemist & industrialist
  • Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist (Encyclopaedia Judaica, art. Mond)
  • Albert Neuberger, 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 (Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:54)
  • Sir Max Perutz, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
  • Michael Polanyi, chemist; naturalised British 1939 (Dictionary of National Biography)
  • Ralph Raphael (JYB 1995 p193)
  • Michael Rossmann
  • Jeremy Sanders
  • Anthony Segal, 1998 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry (Encyclopedia Judaica, 15:670)
  • Dr Nikita Poltavsky, and his wife Denise Mancheste.
  • Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist.
  • Chaim Weizmann, acetone production (First President of Israel)

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