List of Jewish American biologists and physicians

This is a list of notable Jewish American biologists and physicians. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• David Baltimore, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)^[1]
• Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1980)^[2]
• Baruch Blumberg, hepatitis B virus, Nobel Prize (1976)^[3]
• Gerty Cori, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1947)^[4]
• Gertrude Elion, drug development, Nobel Prize (1988)^[5]
• Alfred G. Gilman, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)^[6]
• H. Robert Horvitz, biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)^[7]
• Eric Kandel, biologist, Nobel Prize (2000)^[8]
• Arthur Kornberg, DNA replication, Nobel Prize (1959)^[9]
• Alisha Kramer, physician and health activist^[10]
• Esther Lederberg, geneticist^[11]
• Fritz Lipmann, coenzyme A, Nobel Prize (1953)^[12]
• Hermann Muller, geneticist, Nobel Prize (1946) (Jewish mother)^[13]
• Daniel Nathans, microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1978)^[14]
• Jonas Salk, polio vaccine^[15]
• Howard Temin, reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize (1975)^[16]
• George Wald, retina pigmentation, Nobel Prize (1967).^[17]
• Bret Weinstein, evolutionary biologist^[18]
• David Julius, nociception, Nobel Prize (2021)^[19]
• Stanley Falkow, "father of molecular microbial pathogenesis", National Medal of Science (2016)^[20]

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