List of Jewish American physicists

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

  • 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]
  • 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[5]
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References
  1. Don't You have Time to Think?, Richard P. Feynman (Edited by Michelle Feynman), Penguin Book, 2006, pages 234-236, in letters answering Tina Levitan, and considering her book Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize an "adventure in prejudice"
  2. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/12/bofey12.xml
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2008-03-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2013-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
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