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.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Physicist who led Los Alamos and then argued for a grown-up nuclear policy.
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.
Rosalind Franklin
Physical chemist whose X-ray images made the double helix visible.
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist renowned for pioneering crystallographic electron…
Abel Wolman
Sanitary engineer who helped make municipal water chlorination standard.
Abraham Ribicoff
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut who rose from humble immigrant roots to…
Ada Yonath
Crystallographer who mapped the ribosome — the cell’s protein factory.
Adam Schefter
Adam Schefter (born December 21, 1966) is an American sports journalist best known as the Senior NFL Insider at ESPN, a role he has held since August 2009,…
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist (1903–1995)
Adolf von Baeyer
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) was a German organic chemist whose groundbreaking research advanced synthetic dye production and the…
Ahmed Zayat
Egyptian-born American entrepreneur and racehorse owner
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J.
Albert Bourla
Pfizer (Executive)
Albert Lasker
American businessman (1880–1952)
Albert Sabin
Virologist who made the oral polio vaccine the world could swallow.
Alex Sobel
Alexander David Sobel (born 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central and…