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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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Magic is akin to science in that it always has a definite aim intimately associated with human instincts, needs, and pursuits. The magic art is directed towards the attainment of practical aims. Like other arts and crafts, it is also governed by a theory, by a system of principles which dictate the manner in which the act has to be performed in order to be effective.”
—Bronislaw Malinowski (1984–1942)
“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)
“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)