This is a list of famous Jewish American chemists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)
- Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
- Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)
- Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
- Erwin Chargaff, DNA pioneer
- Morris Cohen, metallurgist
- Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)
- Henry Gilman, organometallic chemist
- Moses Gomberg, free radicals
- Norman Hackerman, chemist,
- Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
- Roald Hoffmann (1937–) chemist & writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)
- Martin Kamen, Carbon 14
- Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist
- Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
- Bruce H. Lipshutz, organometallic chemist
- Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium
- Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
- Gabor A. Somorjai, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1998)
- William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)
- Richard Zare, chemist
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, jewish and/or american:
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we’ve got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that’s why you ought to be glad you’re an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they’re doing.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)