List of British Jewish Scientists - Physicists

Physicists

  • Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish-born astronomer and doctor
  • Edward Neville da Costa Andrade (JYB 1977 p207)
  • Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicist (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Moses Blackman (JYB 1977 p207)
  • David Bohm, physicist, philosopher
  • Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist
  • Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism) (JYB 2000 p212 - list of Jewish Nobel Prizewinners)
  • Samuel Devons, physicist (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Cyril Domb, physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
  • Paul Eisler, inventor of printed circuit board
  • Michael Fisher
  • Otto Robert Frisch (JYB 1980 p182)
  • Herbert Frohlich (JYB 1990 p201)
  • Dennis Gabor Nobel Prize for Physics 1971; British.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "In 1946 Dennis Gabor became a naturalized British citizen."
  • Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, scientist and inventor
  • Jeffrey Goldstone (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Ian Grant (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist (JYB 2005 p213, 214)
  • Herbert Huppert, 1987 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Brian David Josephson, physicist, Nobel Prize (1973)
  • George Kalmus, 1988 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Andrew Keller
  • Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Rudolf Kompfner, invented traveling wave tube
  • Hans Kronberger (physicist), nuclear physicist
  • Nicholas Kurti, physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
"study at the university was open to him, despite being a Jew ... Kurti became a naturalized British citizen just before the outbreak of the Second World War"
  • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist and politician
  • Henry Lipson (JYB 1990 p201)
  • Sir Ben Lockspeiser (JYB 1990 p201)
  • Stanley Mandelstam (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Kurt Mendelssohn (Encyclopaedia Judaica 13:492)
  • Leon Mestel, astronomer (Who's Who entry & JYB 2000 p211)
  • F.R. Nunes Nabarro (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Rudolf Peierls (JYB 1995 p193)
  • Michael Pepper (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Sir Joseph Rotblat, physicist, Nobel Peace Prize (1995)
  • Arthur Schuster (Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1012)
  • Dennis Sciama, FRS, cosmologist
  • David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
  • Sir Francis Simon, 1941 (Encyclopedia Judaica, 14:1578)
  • David Tabor (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist
Concise Dictionary of National Biography: "son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants"
  • Felix Weinberg (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984 (JYB 2005 p214)
  • Alec David Young, aero-engineer (JYB 2005 p214)
  • John Ziman

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