List of British Jewish scientists

List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

Physicists

 * Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor
 * Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
 * Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicist
 * Moses Blackman
 * David Bohm, physicist, philosopher
 * Sir Hermann Bondi, Austrian-born British cosmologist
 * Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize 1954 (converted to Lutheranism)
 * Samuel Devons, physicist
 * Cyril Domb, physicist, President of Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists
 * Paul Eisler, inventor of the printed circuit board
 * Michael Fisher
 * Otto Robert Frisch
 * Herbert Frohlich
 * Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize for Physics 1971
 * Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, scientist and inventor
 * Jeffrey Goldstone
 * Ian Grant
 * Sir Peter Hirsch, physicist
 * Herbert Huppert, 1987
 * Brian David Josephson, physicist, 1973 Nobel Prize
 * George Kalmus, 1988
 * Andrew Keller
 * Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987
 * Rudolf Kompfner, invented the traveling wave tube
 * Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist
 * Nicholas Kurti, physicist, Vice-President of the Royal Society 1965-67
 * Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, physicist and politician
 * Henry Lipson
 * Sir Ben Lockspeiser
 * Stanley Mandelstam
 * Kurt Mendelssohn
 * Leon Mestel, astronomer
 * F.R. Nunes Nabarro
 * Rudolf Peierls
 * Michael Pepper
 * Sir Joseph Rotblat, physicist, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize
 * Adolf Schallamach, physics of friction and wear of rubber
 * Sir Arthur Schuster
 * Dennis Sciama, FRS, cosmologist
 * David Shoenberg, physics of low temperatures (JYB 1995 p193)
 * Sir Francis Simon
 * David Tabor
 * Samuel Tolansky, spectroscopist
 * Felix Weinberg
 * Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984
 * Alec David Young, aero-engineer
 * John Ziman

Chemists

 * Herbert Brown, chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize
 * Sir Arnold Burgen
 * Sir Roy Calne
 * Jack David Dunitz, chemist
 * Martin Fleischmann, chemist
 * Rosalind Franklin, physical chemist and crystallographer, helped discover the structure of DNA
 * Eugen Glueckauf
 * Sir Ian Heilbron
 * Walter Heitler
 * Sir Aaron Klug, physicist and chemist, 1982 Nobel Prize
 * Harold Kroto, discoverer of buckminsterfullerene, 1996 Nobel Prize (Jewish father; raised Jewish)
 * Raphael Meldola
 * Alfred Mond, chemist
 * Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist
 * Sir Robert Mond, chemist and archaeologist
 * Albert Neuberger, chemical pathologist; father of Prof. James Neuberger, Lord Justice Sir David Neuberger and Prof. Michael Neuberger, and father-in-law of Julia Neuberger
 * Friedrich Paneth
 * Max Perutz, molecular biologist, 1962 Nobel Prize
 * Michael Polanyi, chemist; naturalised British 1939
 * Ralph Raphael
 * Michael Rossmann
 * Jeremy Sanders
 * Anthony Segal
 * Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist
 * Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry
 * Carl Warburg, doctor of medicine and clinical pharmacologist
 * Chaim Weizmann, acetone production; first president of Israel

Biologists

 * Saul Adler
 * Ephraim Anderson, microbiologist
 * Charlotte Auerbach
 * Dame Val Beral, breast cancer researcher
 * Walter Bodmer, geneticist
 * Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, professor of pharmacology
 * Sydney Brenner, molecular biologist, 2002Nobel Prize
 * Leslie Brent
 * Edith Bülbring, pharmacologist (Jewish mother)
 * Sir Ernst Chain, co-developer of penicillin, 1945 Nobel Prize
 * Sir Philip Cohen, biologist
 * Sydney Cohen, pathologist
 * Emanuel Mendes da Costa, 18th-century botanist
 * Raymond Dwek, 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, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow and world authority on porphyria
 * Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, neuroscientist and writer (Jewish father)
 * Hans Gruneberg, biologist
 * Sir Ludwig Guttmann, neurologist
 * Sir Henry Harris
 * Philip D'Arcy Hart, medical researcher
 * Sir Gabriel Horn
 * Alick Isaacs, virologist, interferon
 * David Ish-Horowicz
 * Sir Bernard Katz, biophysicist, 1970 Nobel Prize
 * David Keilin, enzymologist
 * Sir Hans Kornberg
 * Hans Kosterlitz, pharmacologist
 * Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, 1953 Nobel Prize
 * Sir John Krebs, zoologist
 * Roland Levinsky, biologist
 * Michael Levitt
 * Hans Lissmann
 * Joel Mandelstam
 * Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist
 * César Milstein, immunologist, 1984 Nobel Prize
 * Leslie Orgel, evolutionary biologist
 * Guido Pontecorvo
 * Juda Quastel
 * Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983
 * Steven Rose, biologist
 * Sir Martin Roth, psychiatrist (JYB 2005 p214)
 * Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild, entomologist
 * Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
 * Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author
 * Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, first Jewish FRS, elected 1727
 * Hannah Steinberg, psychopharmacologist
 * John Vane, pharmacologist, 1982 Nobel Prize (Jewish father)
 * Lawrence Weiskrantz, psychologist
 * Robert Winston, Baron Winston, fertility expert and broadcaster
 * Lewis Wolpert, developmental biologist and broadcaster
 * John Yudkin, physiologist and nutritionist
 * Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist

Mathematicians and statisticians

 * Abraham Manie Adelstein, statistician
 * Hertha Ayrton, mathematician and engineer
 * Laurence Baxter, statistician
 * Abram Besicovitch, Russian-born British mathematician (karaite)
 * Selig Brodetsky, mathematician, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 * Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and broadcaster
 * Paul Cohn, algebraist
 * H.E. Daniels, statistician
 * Philip Dawid, statistician
 * Arthur Erdelyi, mathematician
 * John Fox, statistician
 * Albrecht Frohlich
 * David Glass, demographer
 * Sir Samuel Goldman, British government statistician
 * Sydney Goldstein, expert on fluid mechanics
 * Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician
 * Eugene Grebenik, demographer
 * Steven Haberman, professor of actuarial science
 * John Hajnal, demographer
 * Hans Heilbronn
 * Thomas Körner, mathematician
 * Ruth Lawrence, mathematician and child prodigy
 * Leone Levi, statistician
 * Kurt Mahler, mathematician
 * Sir Claus Moser, statistician
 * Louis Mordell, number theorist
 * Bernhard Neumann
 * Richard Rado, mathematician
 * Klaus Roth, mathematician, 1958 Fields Medal
 * Bernard Silverman, statistician
 * David Spiegelhalter, statistician
 * James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician

Computer scientists

 * Samson Abramsky, computer scientist
 * David Deutsch, quantum computing pioneer
 * I.J. Good, cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer
 * David Levy, computer chess expert
 * Leo Marks, cryptographer and screenwriter
 * Max Newman, mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)
 * Gordon Plotkin, computer scientist
 * Leslie Valiant, computer scientist; parallel computation

Economists

 * Lord Bauer, economist
 * Samuel Brittan, economist
 * Charles Goodhart, Bank of England economist
 * Noreena Hertz, economist and activist
 * Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, economist: multiplier
 * Nicholas Kaldor, economist
 * Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher
 * Israel Kirzner, economist (UK-born)
 * Ludwig Lachmann, economist
 * Harold Laski, economist
 * Alexander Nove, economist
 * Sigbert Prais, economist
 * David Ricardo, economist (converted to Quakerism)
 * Arthur Seldon, economist
 * Sir Hans Singer, economist
 * Piero Sraffa, economist
 * Lord Nicholas Stern, economist
 * Basil Yamey, economist

Social scientists

 * Roy Clive Abraham, linguist
 * Mark Abrams, sociologist
 * Michael Balint, psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
 * Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
 * Basil Bernstein, linguist
 * Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics
 * Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
 * Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory
 * Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist
 * Norbert Elias, sociologist
 * Herman Finer, political scientist
 * Samuel Finer, political scientist
 * Sir Moses I. Finley, historian and sociologist
 * Meyer Fortes, anthropologist
 * Eduard Fraenkel, philologist
 * Anna Freud, child psychoanalyst
 * Norman Geras, professor of Government
 * Morris Ginsberg
 * Max Gluckman, anthropologist
 * Frieda Goldman-Eisler, psycholinguist
 * Theodor Goldstücker, orientalist
 * Jean Gottmann, professor of geography, Oxford University
 * Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
 * Paul Hirst, social theorist (Jewish mother)
 * Marie Jahoda, psychology of discrimination
 * Melanie Klein, child psychoanalyst
 * Paul Klemperer, economist
 * Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish
 * Steven Lukes, political scientist
 * Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and humanist
 * Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE
 * Isaac Schapera, anthropologist
 * Edward Ullendorff, linguist