Friday, March 1, 2013

The Top 10 Jewish Physicists

  1. Albert Einstein: Everyone knows the most famous formula he discovered, E=mc2. 
  2. Niels Bohr: Won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to quantum theory and the structure of the atom. 
  3. Murray Gell-Mann: Won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the understanding of the quark. 
  4. Edward Teller: Nuclear scientist known as “The Father of the Hydrogen Bomb.” 
  5. Albert Michelson: Known for determining, with relative accuracy, the speed of light. 
  6. Richard Feynman: Won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum physics. 
  7. Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg: 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the field electroweak interactions. 
  8. Otto Stern: Demonstrated the wave nature of atoms. 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics. 
  9. Hans Bethe: 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis. 
  10. Isadore Isaac Rabi: Discoverer of nuclear magnetic resonance. 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics winner. 
*Honorable Mention: Julian Schwinger, Rudolf Peierls, Hans Bethe, James Franck, Edward Teller, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Witten, Lise Meitner, Lev Landau, Walter Kohn, Fritz London

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