Albert Einstein
Physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time, and light.
Tracking the tribe and celebrating the accomplishments and global impact of the Jewish people.
Tracking the tribe and celebrating the accomplishments and global impact of the Jewish people.
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Chaim Weizmann
Chemist who fermented acetone for the war — and became Israel’s first president.
Elie Wiesel
Writer and witness who insisted the world remember.
Irving Berlin
Songwriter who gave America some of its most durable popular music.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Physicist who led Los Alamos and then argued for a grown-up nuclear policy.
Jack Black
American actor, comedian, singer, and musician (born 1969)
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
The Cleveland teenagers who created Superman.
Jonas Salk
Salk Institute (Founder)
Karl Landsteiner
Physician who discovered the ABO blood groups and made transfusion safe.
Leo Szilard
Physicist who imagined the nuclear chain reaction — and then tried to govern it.
Lise Meitner
Physicist who explained nuclear fission and refused to build a bomb.
Louis Brandeis
The first Jewish justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a craftsman of privacy law.
Marc Chagall
Painter who floated violinists, lovers, and shtetl memory through modern color.
Raphael Lemkin
Lawyer who coined the word genocide and drafted a convention against it.
Rosalind Franklin
Physical chemist whose X-ray images made the double helix visible.
Ruth Handler
Mattel (Founder)
Stan Lee
Marvel Entertainment (Executive)
A. J. Dillon
American football player (born 1998)
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard (Founder)
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher who forged a uniquely American classical music…
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist renowned for pioneering crystallographic electron…
Aaron Krickstein
American tennis player (born 1967)
Aaron Sorkin
American filmmaker (born 1961)