Chaim Weizmann
Chemist who fermented acetone for the war — and became Israel’s first president.
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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Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
The Cleveland teenagers who created Superman.
Ruth Handler
Mattel (Founder)
Stan Lee
Marvel Entertainment (Executive)
Adam Mosseri
Instagram (Executive)
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist who amassed a fortune through the…
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Ali Bacher
Aron "Ali" Bacher (born 24 May 1942) is a South African former Test cricketer, physician, and cricket administrator of Lithuanian-Jewish descent who captained…
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)
Andrew Viterbi
Italian-American engineer and businessman
Anne Wojcicki
23andMe (Founder)
Arkady Volozh
Arkady Yuryevich Volozh (born 11 February 1964) is a Kazakhstan-born Israeli technology entrepreneur and computer scientist, renowned for co-founding Yandex…
Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was a German-born American physicist renowned for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…
Arthur Kornberg
Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on DNA synthesis, particularly the discovery…
Artur Schnabel
Austrian pianist (1882–1951)
Avi Wigderson
Avi Wigderson is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in theoretical computer science, particularly in…
Barry Silbert
Digital Currency Group (Founder)
Ben Horowitz
American technology entrepreneur (born 1966)
Ben Mezrich
American author (born 1969)
Benjamin Rubin
Microbiologist who invented the bifurcated needle that sped smallpox vaccination.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Benoît Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician renowned as the founder of fractal geometry, a…
Bob Kane and Bill Finger
The writer and artist who created Batman — one long credited, one late.
Brian Acton
WhatsApp (Founder)
Calvin Klein
American fashion designer (born 1942)