List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the
United Kingdom
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and its
predecessor states
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who are or were
Jew
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...
ish or of Jewish descent.
Physicists
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Petrus Alphonsi
Petrus Alphonsi (died after 1116) was a Jewish Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist who converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso, and was born Moses Sephardi. B ...
, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor
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Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
* Sir
Michael Berry,
mathematical physicist
[JYB 2005 p214]
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Moses Blackman
Moses Blackman FRS (6 December 1908 – 3 June 1983) was a South African-born British crystallographer.
Biography
Moses Blackman (known as Morris) was born in Cape Town on 6 December 1908, the son of Esther (née Oshry) and Rabbi Joseph Bla ...
[JYB 1977 p207]
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David Bohm
David Joseph Bohm (; 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992) was an American-Brazilian-British scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th centuryPeat 1997, pp. 316-317 and who contributed ...
, physicist, philosopher
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Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist
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Max Born
Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a ...
, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...
)
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Samuel Devons, physicist
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* ]Cyril Domb
Cyril Domb FRS (9 December 1920 – 15 February 2012) was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist, best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox J ...
,[ physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
* ]Paul Eisler
Paul Eisler (1907 – 26 October 1992, London) was an Austrian inventor born in Vienna. Among his innovations were the printed circuit board. In 2012, ''Printed Circuit Design & Fab'' magazine named its Hall of Fame after Eisler.
Early life and e ...
, inventor of the printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB; also printed wiring board or PWB) is a medium used in electrical and electronic engineering to connect electronic components to one another in a controlled manner. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich str ...
* Michael Fisher
Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931 – 26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions
to statistical physics, including but not restricted to the theory of phase t ...
[
* ]Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first ...
[JYB 1980 p182]
* Herbert Frohlich[JYB 1990 p201]
* Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor ( ; hu, Gábor Dénes, ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained ...
, Nobel Prize for Physics 1971
* Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, 2nd Baronet (28 January 1851 – 19 April 1925) was a British scientific author, barrister and pioneer of road transport.
Early life
The son of Philip Salomons of Brighton, and Emma, daughter of Jaco ...
, scientist and inventor
* Jeffrey Goldstone
Jeffrey Goldstone (born 3 September 1933) is a British theoretical physicist and an ''emeritus'' physics faculty member at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.
He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977. He is famous for the disco ...
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* Ian Grant][
* Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist
* ]Herbert Huppert
Herbert Eric Huppert (born 26 November 1943) is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, at the University of Cambridge, ...
, 1987[
* ]Brian David Josephson
Brian David Josephson (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nob ...
,[ physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize
* George Kalmus, 1988][
* Andrew Keller
* ]Olga Kennard
Olga Kennard, Lady Burgen ( Weisz; born 23 March 1924) is a British scientist specialising in crystallography, and founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre.
Her research focused on determining the structures of organic molecule ...
, crystallographer 1987[
* ]Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner (May 16, 1909 – December 3, 1977) was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT).
Life
Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents. He was origina ...
, invented the traveling wave tube
A traveling-wave tube (TWT, pronounced "twit") or traveling-wave tube amplifier (TWTA, pronounced "tweeta") is a specialized vacuum tube that is used in electronics to amplify radio frequency (RF) signals in the microwave range. The TWT belongs t ...
* Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist
* Nicholas Kurti
Nicholas Kurti, ( hu, Kürti Miklós) (14 May 1908 – 24 November 1998) was a Hungarian-born British physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life.
Career
Born in Budapest, Kurti went to high school at the Minta Gymnasium, but due ...
, physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67
* Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( ; 5 April 18863 July 1957) was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II.
Lindemann was a brilliant intellectual, who cut through bureau ...
, physicist and politician
* Henry Lipson[
* Sir ]Ben Lockspeiser
Sir Ben Lockspeiser, KCB, FRS, MIMechE, FRAeS (9 March 1891 – 18 October 1990) was a British scientific administrator and the first President of CERN.
Early life and education
Lockspeiser was born at 7 President Street in the City of Lon ...
[
* ]Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam (; 12 December 1928 – 23 June 2016) was a South African theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating ...
[
* ]Kurt Mendelssohn
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS (7 January 1906, Berlin-Schoeneberg – 18 September 1980) was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.
Family life
He was the only child of Ernst Moritz Mendelsso ...
* Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel (5 August 1927 – 15 September 2017) was a British-Australian astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests were in the areas of star formation and structure, especially st ...
, astronomer
* F.R. Nunes Nabarro[
* ]Rudolf Peierls
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (; ; 5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied ...
[JYB 1995 p193]
* Michael Pepper
Sir Michael Pepper (born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.
Early life
Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby Pepper. He was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School, a g ...
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* Sir Joseph Rotblat, physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
* Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber
* Sir ]Arthur Schuster
Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. ...
* Dennis Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the Ph ...
, FRS,[ cosmologist
* ]David Shoenberg
David Shoenberg, MBE FRS, (4 January 1911 – 10 March 2004) was a British physicist who worked in condensed matter physics. Shoenberg is known for having developed experimental and theoretical principles to study the De Haas–Van Alphen effec ...
, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
* Sir Francis Simon
* David Tabor
David Tabor (né Tabrisky), FRS (23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005) was a British physicist who was an early pioneer of tribology, the study of frictional interaction between surfaces, and well known for his influential undergraduate textboo ...
[
* ]Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky, FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS (17 November 1907 – 4 March 1973), is a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a princ ...
, spectroscopist
* Felix Weinberg[
* ]Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (9 January 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a British physicist and planetary scientist. His research interests were in the fields of x-ray crystallography, biophysics, colour vision and the formation of stars and planets.
A ...
, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984[
* ]Alec David Young
Alec David Young (15 August 1913 – 27 January 2005) was a British aeronautical engineer.
Alec Young was the son of refugees from Russia who raised him in Stepney, London. He attended Central Foundation Boys' School for his secondary edu ...
, aero-engineer[
* ]John Ziman
John Michael Ziman (16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005) was a British-born New Zealand physicist and humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was a spokesman for science, as well as a teacher and author.
Ziman was born in Camb ...
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Chemists
* Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize[JYB 2005 p215]
* Sir Arnold Burgen
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS (20 March 1922 – 26 May 2022) was a British physician, pharmacologist, academic and university administrator. He was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge, from 1982–89, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of The U ...
[
* Sir ]Roy Calne
Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRCP, FRCS, FRS (born 30 December 1930) is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation.
Career
His most notable achievements are the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant together with John Wallwor ...
[
* Jack David Dunitz,] chemist
* Martin Fleischmann
Martin Fleischmann FRS (29 March 1927 – 3 August 2012) was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry.
By Associated Press.
Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy w ...
, chemist
* Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 192016 April 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, c ...
, physical chemist
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mech ...
and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA
* Eugen Glueckauf
Eugen Glueckauf FRS (9 April 1906 – 12 September 1981) was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.
Biography
Eugen Glückauf (later anglicised to Glueckauf) was born on 9 April 1906 in Eisenach, Germany, the son of Bruno Glückauf, ...
[
* Sir ]Ian Heilbron
Sir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS (6 November 1886 – 14 September 1959) was a Scottish chemist, who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use.
Early life and education
Heilbron was born in Glasgow on 6 November ...
* Walter Heitler[
* ]Sir Aaron Klug
Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of bio ...
, physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel Prize
* Harold Kroto
Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born Harold Walter Krotoschiner; 7 October 1939 – 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discover ...
, discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60. It has a cage-like fused-ring structure (truncated icosahedron) made of twenty hexagons and twelve pentagons, and resembles a soccer ball. Each of its 60 carbon atoms is bonded ...
, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
* Raphael Meldola
Raphael Meldola FRS (19 July 1849 – 16 November 1915) was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–15.
Life
Born in Islington, London, he was descended from Raphael M ...
* Alfred Mond
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, FRS, DL (23 October 1868 – 27 December 1930), known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician. In his later life he became an active Zio ...
, chemist
* Ludwig Mond
Ludwig Mond FRS (7 March 1839 – 11 December 1909) was a German-born, British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.
Education and career
Ludwig Mond was born ...
, chemist and industrialist
* Sir Robert Mond
Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, FRS, FRSE (9 September 1867 – 22 October 1938) was a British chemist and archaeologist.
Early life and education
Mond was born at Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, the elder son of Ludwig Mond, a chemist and industrialis ...
, chemist and archaeologist
* Albert Neuberger
Albert Neuberger (15 April 1908 – 14 August 1996) was a British Professor of Chemical Pathology, St Mary's Hospital, 1955–1973, and later Emeritus Professor.
Education in Germany
Born in Hassfurt, northern Bavaria, the first of the three ...
, chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger
James Max Neuberger (born 4 November 1949) is a consultant physician, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham. He is one of the ...
, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger
Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS FMedSci (2 November 1953 – 26 October 2013) was a British biochemist and immunologist.
Biography
Born in Kensington, Michael Samuel Neuberger was the fourth of five children of Albert Neuberger and Lilian Ida ...
, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger
Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) was the second woman to be ordained as a Rabbi in the UK, and is a British member of the House of Lords. She previously took the Liberal Democrat whip, but r ...
* Friedrich Paneth
Friedrich Adolf Paneth (31 August 1887 – 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain. He became a naturalized British citizen in 1939. After the war, Paneth returned to Germany to b ...
* Max Perutz
Max Ferdinand Perutz (19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin. He ...
, molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize
* Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplie ...
, chemist; naturalised British 1939
* Ralph Raphael
Ralph Alexander Raphael (1 January 1921 – 27 April 1998) was a British organic chemist, well known for his use of acteylene derivatives in the synthesis of natural products with biological activity.
Early life and education
Ralph Raphael w ...
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* ]Michael Rossmann
Michael G. Rossmann (30 July 1930 – 14 May 2019) was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure ...
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*]Jeremy Sanders
Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders (born 3 May 1948) is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Royal Society Open Science. He is known for his contribution ...
* Anthony Segal[
* ]Franz Sondheimer
Franz Sondheimer FRS (17 May 1926 – 11 February 1981) was a German-born British professor of chemistry. In 1960, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his contributions to science.
Biography
Franz Sondheimer was born in Stuttgart on 17 May 1926, ...
, organic chemist[
* ]Michael Szwarc Michael Szwarc (9 June 1909, Będzin, Poland – 4 August 2000, San Diego, California) was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization.
Biography
Michael Mojżesz Szwarc was born into a Polis ...
, polymer chemistry
* Carl Warburg
Carl Warburg (c. 1805–1892), also known as Charles Warburg, was a physician and scientist. He was the inventor of 'Warburg's Tincture', a medicine well known in the 19th century for treating fevers, including malaria.Sparkes, Roland. Article ...
, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist
* Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( he, חיים עזריאל ויצמן ', russian: Хаим Евзорович Вейцман, ''Khaim Evzorovich Veytsman''; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionism, Zionist leader a ...
, acetone production; first president of Israel
Biologists
* Saul Adler
Saul Adler FRS ( he, שאול אדלר; May 17, 1895 – January 25, 1966) was an Israeli expert on parasitology.
Early life
Adler was born in 1895 in Kerelits (Karelichy), then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus. In 1900, he and his family ...
* Ephraim Anderson
Ephraim Saul "Andy" Anderson, CBE, FRS (28 October 1911 – 14 March 2006) was a British bacteriologist, best known for his work highlighting the human health dangers of drug-resistant bacteria created by antibiotics, in particular by low-dose an ...
, microbiologist
* Charlotte Auerbach
Charlotte "Lotte" Auerbach FRS FRSE (14 May 1899 – 17 March 1994) was a German geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis. She became well known after 1942 when she discovered with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson that mus ...
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* Dame Val Beral, breast cancer researcher
* ]Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936) is a German-born British human geneticist.
Early life
Bodmer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and went on to study the Mathematical Tripos at the Unive ...
, geneticist
* Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born FRCP, HonFRCS, FRS (29 July 1921 – 16 April 2018) was a German-British professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London Sch ...
, professor of pharmacology
* Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work ...
, molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize
* Leslie Brent
Leslie Baruch Brent (5 July 1925 – 21 December 2019) was a British immunologist and zoologist. He was Professor Emeritus, University of London, from 1990. An immunologist, he was the co-discoverer, with Peter Medawar and Rupert Billingham, o ...
* Edith Bülbring, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
* Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin
Penicillins (P, PCN or PEN) are a group of β-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from ''Penicillium'' moulds, principally '' P. chrysogenum'' and '' P. rubens''. Most penicillins in clinical use are synthesised by P. chrysogenum using ...
, 1945 Nobel Prize
* Sir Philip Cohen,[ biologist
* ]Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen (18 September 1921 – 25 July 2017) was Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, and an authority on malaria.
Biography
Sydney Cohen was born on 18 September 1921 in Johannesburg to Pauline (née Soloveychi ...
, pathologist
* Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Emanuel Mendes da Costa (5 June 1717 – 31 May 1791) was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati. Da Costa became infamous for embezzling funds while wor ...
, 18th-century botanist
* Raymond Dwek
Raymond Allen Dwek CBE FRS FRSC (born 10 November 1941) is a scientist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the biotechnology company Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd.,
Biography
Dwek was educated at Carmel College, and the University of M ...
, biologist[
* Sir Michael Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein-Barr virus][
* Wilhelm Feldberg,][ pharmacologist
* Sir Alan Fersht,][ protein folding
* Sir Otto Frankel, geneticist
* Ian Glynn][
* ]Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg
Sir Abraham Goldberg (7 December 1923 – 1 September 2007) was a British physician who was a Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and the University ...
, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria
* Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, (born 1 October 1950) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords (since 2001). Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dis ...
, neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)
* Hans Gruneberg
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* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
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** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...
, biologist
* Sir Ludwig Guttmann
Sir Ludwig Guttmann (3 July 1899 – 18 March 1980) was a German-British neurologist who established the Stoke Mandeville Games, the sporting event for people with disabilities (PWD) that evolved in England into the Paralympic Games. A Jewis ...
, neurologist
* Sir Henry Harris
* Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher
* Sir Gabriel Horn
Sir Gabriel Horn, MD, ScD, FRS, FRCP (9 December 1927 – 2 August 2012) was a British neuroscientist and Professor in Natural Sciences (Zoology) at the University of Cambridge. His research was into the neural mechanisms of learning and m ...
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* ]Alick Isaacs
Alick Isaacs FRS (17 July 1921 – 26 January 1967) was a Scottish virologist.
Background and early life
Isaacs's Jewish paternal grandparents came from Lithuania to escape oppression, and took the surname Isaacs. Alick's father Louis was born ...
, virologist, interferon
Interferons (IFNs, ) are a group of signaling proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of several viruses. In a typical scenario, a virus-infected cell will release interferons causing nearby cells to heighten t ...
* David Ish-Horowicz
David Ish-Horowicz FRS (born 1948) is a British scientist. He is currently a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London (since 2013). Between 1987 and 2013, he was a Principal Scientist and Head of the Developmental ...
[
* ]Sir Bernard Katz
Sir Bernard Katz, FRS (; 26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003) was a German-born British physician and biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve physiology. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf ...
, biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize
* David Keilin
David Keilin FRS (21 March 1887 – 27 February 1963) was a Jewish scientist focusing mainly on entomology.
Background and education
He was born in Moscow in 1887 and his family returned to Warsaw early in his youth. He did not attend scho ...
,[ enzymologist
* Sir ]Hans Kornberg
Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (14 January 1928 – 16 December 2019) was a British-American biochemist. He was Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Cambridge from 1975 to 1995, and Master (college), Master of Christ's ...
[
* ]Hans Kosterlitz
Hans Walter Kosterlitz FRS (27 April 1903 – 26 October 1996) was a German-born British biochemist.
Biography
Hans Walter Kosterlitz was born on 27 April 1903 in Berlin. He was the elder son of Bernhard Kosterlitz, a physician, and Selm ...
, pharmacologist
* Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize
* Sir John Krebs
John Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs, Kt FRS (born 11 April 1945) is an English zoologist researching in the field of behavioural ecology of birds. He was the principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 2005 until 2015."Elliott Coues Award, 1999: ...
, zoologist
* Roland Levinsky
Professor Roland Levinsky (16 October 1943 – 1 January 2007) was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as vice-chancellor of the University of Ply ...
, biologist
* Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt, ( he, מיכאל לויט; born 9 May 1947) is a South African-born biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987. Levitt received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistr ...
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* Hans Lissmann][
* Joel Mandelstam][
* Sir ]Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Gideon Marmot (born 26 February 1945) is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity. Marmot has led research groups on health inequa ...
, epidemiologist
* César Milstein
César Milstein, CH, FRS (8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002) was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for d ...
, immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize
* Leslie Orgel
Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS (12 January 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a British chemist. He is known for his theories on the origin of life.
Biography
Leslie Orgel was born in London, England, on . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in chemi ...
,[ evolutionary biologist
* Guido Pontecorvo][
* Juda Quastel][
* ]Ivan Roitt
Ivan Maurice Roitt (born 30 September 1927) is a British scientist. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford University. He was Head of the Department of Immunology at University College London from 1967 to 1 ...
, immunologist 1983[
* ]Steven Rose
Steven Peter Russell Rose (born 4 July 1938) is an English neuroscientist, author, and social commentator. He is emeritus professor of biology and neurobiology at the Open University and Gresham College, London.
Early life
Born in London, Unit ...
, biologist
* Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)
* Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild
Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild (5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005) was a British natural scientist and author with contributions to zoology, entomology, and botany.
Early life
Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle i ...
, entomologist
* Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990) was a British banker, scientist, intelligence officer during World War II, and later a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Son ...
* Oliver Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the Uni ...
, neurologist and author
* Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, first Jewish FRS, elected 1727
* Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist
* John Vane
Sir John Robert Vane (29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004) was a British people, British pharmacologist who was instrumental in the understanding of how aspirin produces pain-relief and anti-inflammatory effects and his work led to new treatments ...
,[ pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)
* ]Lawrence Weiskrantz
Lawrence Weiskrantz (28 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a British neuropsychologist. Weiskrantz is credited with discovering the phenomenon of blindsight, and with establishing the role of the amygdala in emotional learning and emotional ...
, psychologist[
* Robert Winston, Baron Winston, fertility expert and broadcaster
* ]Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert was best known for his French flag model of embryonic development, where he used the French flag as ...
, developmental biologist and broadcaster
* John Yudkin
John Yudkin FRSC (8 August 1910 – 12 July 1995) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, and the founding Professor of the Department of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London.
Yudkin wrote several books recommending low-carbohydr ...
, physiologist and nutritionist
* Lord Solly Zuckerman
Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer. He is best remembered as a scientific advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in the Second Wo ...
, anatomist, evolutionist
Mathematicians and statisticians
* Abraham Manie Adelstein
Abraham Manie Adelstein (28 March 1916 – 18 October 1992) was a South African born medical doctor who became the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician.
Career
Adelstein was the fourth of five children (four boys and one girl) of Nathan Ade ...
,[article in Oxford ]Dictionary of National Biography
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statistician
* Hertha Ayrton
Phoebe Sarah Hertha Ayrton (28 April 1854 – 26 August 1923) was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, and suffragette. Known in adult life as Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was awarded the Hughes Medal by the ...
,[ mathematician and engineer
* Laurence Baxter, statistician
* ]Abram Besicovitch
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (or Besikovitch) (russian: link=no, Абра́м Само́йлович Безико́вич; 23 January 1891 – 2 November 1970) was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk ...
, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
* Selig Brodetsky
Selig Brodetsky, זליג ברודצק (10 February 1888 – 18 May 1954) was a Russian-born English mathematician, a member of the World Zionist Executive, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and the second president of the ...
, mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-British mathematician and philosopher. He was known to friends and professional colleagues alike by the nickname Bruno. He is best known for developing a humanistic approach to sc ...
, mathematician and broadcaster
* Paul Cohn
Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commuta ...
, algebraist
* H.E. Daniels,[ statistician
* Philip Dawid, statistician
* Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician
* John Fox, statistician
* Albrecht Frohlich
* ]David Glass David Glass may refer to:
*David Glass (businessman) (1935–2020), American executive
* David Glass (Canadian politician) (1829–1906), Canadian lawyer and political figure
*David Glass (Israeli politician)
David Glass ( he, דוד גלס, 16 O ...
, demographer
* Sir Samuel Goldman, British government statistician
* Sydney Goldstein
Sydney Goldstein FRS (3 December 1903, Kingston upon Hull – 22 January 1989, Cambridge, MA) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as: "... one of those who most influenced progress in fluid ...
, expert on fluid mechanics
* Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz (5 March 1779 – 14 July 1865) was a British self-educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Gompertz is now best known for his Gompertz law of mortality, a demographic model published in 18 ...
, mathematician
* Eugene Grebenik, demographer
* Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial science
* John Hajnal, demographer[
* ]Hans Heilbronn
Hans Arnold Heilbronn (8 October 1908 – 28 April 1975) was a mathematician.
Education
He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised ...
* Thomas Körner
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas th ...
, mathematician
* Ruth Lawrence, mathematician and child prodigy
* Leone Levi
Leone Levi (6 June 1821 – 7 May 1888) was an English jurist and statistician.
Born to a Jewish family in Ancona, Italy, he worked in commerce there before emigrating to Liverpool in 1844. There he obtained British citizenship and joined the Pr ...
, statistician
* Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler FRS (26 July 1903, Krefeld, Germany – 25 February 1988, Canberra, Australia) was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of transcendental number theory, diophantine approximation, ''p''-adic analysis, and the geometry o ...
, mathematician[
* Sir ]Claus Moser
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, (24 November 1922 – 4 September 2015) was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said t ...
, statistician
* Louis Mordell
Louis Joel Mordell (28 January 1888 – 12 March 1972) was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction.
Educati ...
, number theorist
* Bernhard Neumann
Bernhard Hermann Neumann (15 October 1909 – 21 October 2002) was a German-born British-Australian mathematician, who was a leader in the study of group theory.
Early life and education
After gaining a D.Phil. from Friedrich-Wilhelms Universi ...
[
* ]Richard Rado
Richard Rado FRS (28 April 1906 – 23 December 1989) was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution. He earned two PhDs: in 1933 from th ...
, mathematician
* Klaus Roth
Klaus Friedrich Roth (29 October 1925 – 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician who won the Fields Medal for proving Roth's theorem on the Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers. He was also a winner of the De ...
, mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal
* Bernard Silverman
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former Anglican clergyman. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department ...
, statistician
* David Spiegelhalter
Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the Un ...
, statistician
* James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership ...
, mathematician
Computer scientists
* Samson Abramsky
Samson Abramsky (born 12 March 1953) is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford, from 2000 to 2021.
He has made contributions to t ...
, computer scientist
* David Deutsch
David Elieser Deutsch ( ; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory o ...
,[ quantum computing pioneer
* ]I.J. Good
Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009)The Times of 16-apr-09, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6100314.ece
was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. Afte ...
, cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer
* David Levy, computer chess expert
* Leo Marks
Leopold Samuel Marks, (24 September 1920 – 15 January 2001) was an English writer, screenwriter, and cryptographer. During the Second World War he headed the codes office supporting resistance agents in occupied Europe for the secret Special ...
, cryptographer and screenwriter
* Max Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, FRS, (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984), generally known as Max Newman, was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operatio ...
,[ mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)
* ]Gordon Plotkin
Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and hi ...
,[ computer scientist
* ]Leslie Valiant
Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Compu ...
,[ computer scientist; parallel computation
]
Economists
* Lord Bauer, economist
* Samuel Brittan
Sir Samuel Brittan (29 December 1933 – 12 October 2020) was an English journalist and author. He was the first economics correspondent for the ''Financial Times'', and later a long-time columnist. He was a member of the Academic Advisory Council ...
, economist
* Charles Goodhart
Charles Albert Eric Goodhart, (born 23 October 1936) is a British economist. His career can be divided into two sections: his term with the Bank of England and its associated public policy; and his academic work with the London School of Econom ...
, Bank of England economist
* Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and author, and has hosted her show, "MegaHertz: London Calling," on Sirius XM's Insight channel since 28 August 2017. She has been Honorary Professor at the Institute for ...
, economist and activist
* Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn
Richard Ferdinand Kahn, Baron Kahn, CBE, FBA (10 August 1905 – 6 June 1989) was a British economist.
Kahn was born in Hampstead into the orthodox Jewish family of Augustus Kahn, inspector of schools and former German schoolmaster, and Regi ...
, economist: multiplier
* Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (12 May 1908 – 30 September 1986), born Káldor Miklós, was a Cambridge economist in the post-war period. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), ...
,[ economist
* ]Michael Kidron
Michael Kidron (20 September 1930 – 25 March 2003) was a British cartographer. He was one of the early founders of the International Socialists (forerunners of the Socialist Workers Party; SWP) through the 1960s and 1970s, and the first edit ...
, South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...
n born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher
* Israel Kirzner
Israel Meir Kirzner (also Yisroel Mayer Kirzner ; born February 13, 1930) is a British-born American economist closely identified with the Austrian School.
Early life and education
The son of a well-known rabbi and Talmudist, Kirzner was born ...
, economist (UK-born)
* Ludwig Lachmann, economist
* Harold Laski
Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of ...
, economist
* Alexander Nove
Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA (born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky; russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский; also published under Alec Nove; 24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994) was a Professor of Economics at the ...
, economist
* Sigbert Prais
Sigbert Jon Prais, FBA (19 December 1928 – 22 February 2014) was an economist and had been the senior research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) since 1970.
Life
On 19 December 1928, Sigbert Jon Prais ...
, economist[
* ]David Ricardo
David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. Ricardo was also a politician, an ...
, economist (converted to Quakerism)
* Arthur Seldon
Arthur Seldon, (29 May 1916 – 11 October 2005) was joint founder president, with Ralph Harris, of the Institute of Economic Affairs, where he directed editorial affairs and publishing for more than thirty years. He is the father of po ...
, economist
* Sir Hans Singer
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (1910–2006) was a German-born British development economist best known for the Singer–Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figure ...
, economist
* Piero Sraffa
Piero Sraffa (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book ''Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities'' is taken as founding the neo ...
,[ economist
* Lord ]Nicholas Stern
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Cli ...
, economist[
* Basil Yamey, economist][JYB 2005 p315]
Social scientists
* Roy Clive Abraham
Roy Clive Abraham (16 December 1890, Melbourne, Australia - 22 June 1963, Hendon, London) was a key figure in African language scholarship during the twentieth century. He worked for over thirty years on a wide range of disparate languages.
Ed ...
,[Oxford ]Dictionary of National Biography
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linguist
* Mark Abrams
Mark Abrams (27 April 1906 – 25 September 1994) was a British social scientist and market research expert who pioneered new techniques in statistical surveying and opinion polling.
Background and education
Mark Abrams was born Max Alexander ...
,[ sociologist
* ]Michael Balint ,
, image = Monte Verità Gedenktafel Michael Balint 1K4A4638-b.jpg
, caption =
, birth_name = Mihály Maurice Bergsmann
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Budapest
, death_date =
, death_place = London
, occupation = psychoan ...
, psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
* Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigra ...
, sociologist
* Basil Bernstein
Basil Bernard Bernstein (1 November 1924 – 24 September 2000) was a British sociologist known for his work in the sociology of education. He worked on socio-linguistics and the connection between the manner of speaking and social organizatio ...
, linguist
* Vernon Bogdanor
Vernon Bernard Bogdanor (; born 16 July 1943) is a British political scientist and historian, research professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London and professor of politics at the New College of the ...
, professor of politics[
* ]Georgina Born
Georgina Emma Mary Born, is a British academic, anthropologist, musicologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born and for her work in Henry Cow and with Lindsay Cooper.
Background
Born was born in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, ...
, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born FRCP, HonFRCS, FRS (29 July 1921 – 16 April 2018) was a German-British professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London Sch ...
* Gerald Cohen
Gerald Allan Cohen, ( ; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All ...
, professor of social and political theory[
* Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist
* ]Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias (; 22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
Biography
Elias was born on 22 June 1897 in Bresla ...
, sociologist
* Herman Finer
Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 in Hertsa, Kingdom of Romania – March 4, 1969 in Chicago, United States) was a Jewish Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist.
His parents were Max Finer (1866/67–1945) and his wife, Fann ...
, political scientist
* Samuel Finer
Samuel Edward Finer FBA (22 September 1915 – 9 June 1993) was a British political scientist and historian specializing in comparative politics, who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom ...
, political scientist
* Sir Moses I. Finley
Sir Moses Israel Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s, resulted ...
, historian and sociologist
* Meyer Fortes
Meyer Fortes FBA FRAI (25 April 1906 – 27 January 1983) was a South African-born anthropologist, best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana.
Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" ...
, anthropologist
* Eduard Fraenkel
Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel FBA () was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Cl ...
, philologist
* Anna Freud
Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contribu ...
, child psychoanalyst
* Norman Geras
Norman Geras (; 25 August 1943 – 18 October 2013) was a political theorist and Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Manchester. He contributed to an analysis of the works of Karl Marx in his book ''Marx and Human Nature'' and the ...
, professor of Government
* Morris Ginsberg
Morris Ginsberg FBA (14 May 1889 – 31 August 1970) was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of '' The Sociological Review'' in the 1930s and later became the founding chairm ...
* Max Gluckman
Herman Max Gluckman (; 26 January 1911 – 13 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist. He is best known as the founder of the Manchester School of anthropology.
Biography and major works
Gluckman was born in Joha ...
, anthropologist
* Theodor Goldstücker, orientalist
* Jean Gottmann (Ivan) Jean Gottmann (10 October 1915, in Kharkov – 28 February 1994, in Oxford) was a French geographer who was best known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast megalopolis. His main contributions to human geography were ...
, professor of geography, Oxford University
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
* Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
* Paul Hirst
Paul Quentin Hirst (1946–2003) was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College, London, in 1985 and held the post until his death from a stroke and brain haemorrhage.
Biography
On 20 ...
, social theorist (Jewish mother)
* Marie Jahoda
Marie Jahoda (26 January 1907 – 28 April 2001) was an Austrian-British social psychologist.
Biography
Jahoda was born in Vienna to a Jewish merchant's family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where political o ...
, psychology of discrimination
* Melanie Klein
Melanie Klein (née Reizes; 30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British author and psychoanalyst known for her work in child analysis. She was the primary figure in the development of object relations theory. Klein suggested th ...
, child psychoanalyst
* Paul Klemperer
Paul David Klemperer FBA (born 15 August 1956) is an economist and the Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Oxford University. He is a member of the Klemperer family. He works on industrial economics, competition po ...
, economist
* Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish[
* ]Steven Lukes
Steven Michael Lukes (born 1941) is a British political and social theorist. Currently he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University. He was formerly a professor at the University of Siena, the European University Institut ...
, political scientist[
* ]Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905November 26, 1999) — born Israel Ehrenberg — was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He w ...
, anthropologist and humanist
* Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose is a British sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Honorary Profes ...
, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE
* Isaac Schapera
Isaac Schapera FBA FRAI (23 June 1905 Garies, Cape Colony – 26 June 2003 London, England), was a social anthropologist at the London School of Economics specialising in South Africa. He was notable for his contributions of ethnographic a ...
, anthropologist[
* ]Edward Ullendorff
Edward Ullendorff (1920–2011) was a British scholar and historian. He was a prominent figure in Ethiopian Studies and also contributed work on the Semitic languages.
Biography
Born on 25 January 1920 in Zurich, Switzerland, Ullendorff was e ...
, linguist[
]
See also
*Lists of Jews
This list of lists may include both lists that distinguish between ethnic origin and religious practice, and lists that make no such distinction. Some of the constituent lists also may have experienced additions and/or deletions that reflect inco ...
* List of British Jews
References
* JYB = Jewish Year Book
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Footnotes
External links
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