List of British Jewish scientists

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List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent.

Physicists[]

Chemists[]

Biologists[]

Mathematicians and statisticians[]

Computer scientists[]

  • Samson Abramsky, computer scientist[117]
  • David Deutsch,[3] quantum computing pioneer
  • I.J. Good,[118] cryptographer, philosopher of statistics; computing pioneer
  • David Levy,[119] computer chess expert
  • Leo Marks,[120] cryptographer and screenwriter
  • Max Newman,[118] mathematician and computing pioneer (Jewish father)
  • Gordon Plotkin,[118] computer scientist
  • Leslie Valiant,[118] computer scientist; parallel computation

Economists[]

  • Lord Bauer,[121] economist
  • Samuel Brittan, economist
  • Charles Goodhart,[122] Bank of England economist
  • Noreena Hertz,[123] economist and activist
  • Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn,[124] economist: multiplier
  • Nicholas Kaldor,[124] economist
  • Michael Kidron, South African born Marxist economist, writer, cartographer and publisher
  • Israel Kirzner,[125] economist (UK-born)
  • Ludwig Lachmann, economist[126]
  • Harold Laski, economist[127]
  • Alexander Nove, economist[128]
  • Sigbert Prais, economist[34]
  • David Ricardo,[129] economist (converted to Quakerism)
  • Arthur Seldon,[130] economist
  • Sir Hans Singer, economist[131]
  • Piero Sraffa,[124] economist
  • Lord Nicholas Stern, economist[34][132]
  • Basil Yamey, economist[34][132]

Social scientists[]

  • Roy Clive Abraham,[133] linguist
  • Mark Abrams,[133] sociologist
  • Michael Balint,[134] psychoanalyst (converted to Unitarianism)
  • Zygmunt Bauman,[135] sociologist
  • Basil Bernstein,[136] linguist
  • Vernon Bogdanor, professor of politics[34][137]
  • Georgina Born, anthropologist; daughter of Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
  • Gerald Cohen, professor of social and political theory[34]
  • Arthur Lumley Davids, linguist and orientalist[138]
  • Norbert Elias,[139] sociologist
  • Herman Finer,[140] political scientist
  • Samuel Finer,[141] political scientist
  • Sir Moses I. Finley,[142] historian and sociologist
  • Meyer Fortes, anthropologist[143]
  • Eduard Fraenkel, philologist[144]
  • Anna Freud,[145] child psychoanalyst
  • Norman Geras,[146] professor of Government[147]
  • Morris Ginsberg[148]
  • Max Gluckman, anthropologist[149]
  • Theodor Goldstücker,[150] orientalist
  • Jean Gottmann,[151] professor of geography, Oxford University
  • Julius Gould, sociologist (JYB 2005 p249)
  • Paul Hirst,[152] social theorist (Jewish mother)
  • Marie Jahoda,[153] psychology of discrimination
  • Melanie Klein,[154] child psychoanalyst
  • Paul Klemperer, economist
  • Geoffrey Lewis Lewis, professor of Turkish[34]
  • Steven Lukes, political scientist[34]
  • Ashley Montagu,[155] anthropologist and humanist
  • Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology, LSE
  • Isaac Schapera, anthropologist[34]
  • Edward Ullendorff, linguist[34]

See also[]

References[]

Footnotes[]

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