List of Jewish American physicists

This is a list of notable Jewish American physicists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.


 * Stephen Brunauer, Hungarian physicist who came to United States to study sciences. Inventor of BET theory and porous Portland cement.
 * Albert Einstein, German-born, later naturalized American theoretical physicist who is known for developing the theory of relativity. Nobel Prize (1921).
 * Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race  )
 * Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist
 * Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light,and disproved the existence of the luminous ether.
 * J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb"
 * Carl Sagan, one of the most prominent astrophysicists who is known for his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
 * Eric Weinstein (born 1965), mathematical physicist
 * Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons