Eisenstein is a surname which may refer to: *

Bruce Eisenstein Bruce Eisenstein is an engineering educator serving as the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was formerly Interim Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He has published nearly ...

, American electrical engineer and academic *

Charles Eisenstein Charles Eisenstein (born 1967) is an American public speaker and author. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, economics, spirituality, and the ecology movement. Key themes explored include anti-c ...

, American author, speaker and activist *

Daniel Eisenstein Daniel Eisenstein (born 1970) is an American cosmologist and academic. Eisenstein's Ph.D. (1996) is from Harvard University. He held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Chicago before moving to the Unive ...

(born 1970), American cosmologist and academic *

Elizabeth Eisenstein Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (October 11, 1923 – January 31, 2016) was an American historian of the French Revolution and early 19th-century France. She is well known for her work on the history of early printing, writing on the transition in ...

(1923-2016), American historian *

Gotthold Eisenstein Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein (16 April 1823 – 11 October 1852) was a German mathematician. He specialized in number theory and mathematical analysis, analysis, and proved several results that eluded even Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gauss. Like ...

(1823-1852), German mathematician *

Ira Eisenstein Rabbi Ira Eisenstein (November 26, 1906 – June 28, 2001) was an American rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism, along with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, his teacher and, later, father-in-law through his marriage to Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, Judith ...

(1906-2001), American rabbi who cofounded Reconstructionist Judaism *

James P. Eisenstein James (Jim) P. Eisenstein was the Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the physics department of California Institute of Technology. Academic career Eisenstein received a doctoral degree from the University of California, ...

(born 1952), American physicist *

Julius Eisenstein Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein (November 12, 1854 – May 17, 1956) ( he, יהודה דוד אייזנשטיין) was a Polish-Jewish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Hebraist, historian, philanthropist, and Orthodox polemicist bo ...

(1854-1956), Russian-American writer and contributor to the ''Jewish Encyclopedia'' * Laura Eisenstein (1942-1985), American physicist *

Linda Eisenstein Linda Eisenstein is an American playwright and composer. Career Linda Eisenstein is an author, composer, journalist and activist for the rights of women playwrights. Born in Chicago, raised in San Francisco and living now in Cleveland, Ohio, she ...

, American playwright and composer * Mayer Eisenstein (1946-2014), American physician and anti-vaccine activist *

Mikhail Eisenstein Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein (russian: Михаил Осипович Эйзенштейн, translit=Michail Osipovič Ejzenštein, lv, Mihails Eizenšteins; – 2 July 1920) was a civil engineer and architect working in Riga, the present-day cap ...

(1867–1921), Russian architect * Odile Eisenstein (born 1949), French theoretical chemist *

Phyllis Eisenstein Phyllis Eisenstein (February 26, 1946 – December 7, 2020) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as novels. Her work was nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. Early life Eisenstein was born Phy ...

(1946-2020), American science fiction and fantasy writer *

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenw ...

(1898–1948), Soviet film director *

Zillah Eisenstein Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politic ...

, ( fl. 2021) American political scientist and gender studies scholar

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