List of Jewish American physicists
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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[1][2][3])
- Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist[4]
- Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light, and disproved the existence of the luminous ether.[5][circular reference]
- 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[6]
- 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[7]