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Did Cuba, Morocco, Libya, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Somali, Egypt.... and the list goes on.
What have the Jews given the world?
well again Wikipedia comes to the rescue.
Name Year Area Invention
Leonard Adleman Computer Science Molecular Biology RSA; DNA computing
Charles Adler [1] horn-actuated traffic lights
Robert Adler Physicist wireless remote control for televisions
Selig Percy Amoils [2] ophthalmologist; Cryoprobe
Herman Aron invented the electric meter[3]
Hertha Ayrton [4] Draughtsmen's tools
Itzhak Bentov[5] Remote controlled cardiac catheter
(US Patent 3605725 September 1971 Bentov)
Emile Berliner[1] inventor of gramophone
Ludwig Blattner[1] Blattnerphone sound recording machine
Frank Colton[6] oral contraceptive, antihistamines
Carl Djerassi[7] oral contraceptive, antihistamines
Gertrude Elion [1] anti-leukemia drugs Nobel Prize (1988) in medicine zovirax
Samuel Fedida[1] 1971 inventor of Viewdata
Uziel Gal[1] "Uzi" sub-machine gun
Joseph Gerber[1] photoplotter, photocutter, Gerber variable scale, 650 US and foreign patents awarded
David Gestetner[8] duplicator
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes Kodachrome[9] [10]
Sylvan Goldman[1] shopping cart
Peter Carl Goldmark[1] vinyl record
Emanuel Goldberg[9] 1910
1921/1923
1925
1931
Sensitometry
Movie camera
Microphotography
Computer science
Goldberg wedge
Kinamo
Microdot
Statistical machine
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [11] railway signals
Mikhail Gurevich[10] For his winning designs in the Russian military aircraft design bureau MiG, won State Stalin Prize (1941, 1947, 1948, 1949,
1953), Lenin award (1962), and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor (1957).
Waldemar Haffkine developed vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague and tested them on himself.[11]
Philippe Kahn camera phone[12]
Theodore von Karman[1] aeronautics
astronautics father of supersonic flight
Charles Kelman 1969 Ophthalmologist Phacoemulsification introduced the technique that uses ultrasonic waves to emulsify the nucleus of the eye's lens
to remove cataracts.
Arthur Korn[13] forerunner of the fax machine
Arthur Kornberg 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:[14] discovered "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA)".[15][16]
Roger D. Kornberg 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: discovered "the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" (the process by which genetic
information from DNA is copied to RNA).[17][16]
Hedy Lamarr[1] spread-spectrum radio technology
Edwin Land[1] Polaroid camera
Lev Landau[1] 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for theory of superfluidity. Also co-discovered the density matrix method in quantum mechanics, the quantum
mechanical theory of diamagnetism, the theory of second order phase transitions, the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, the explanation of
Landau damping in plasma physics, the Landau pole in quantum electrodynamics, and the two-component theory of neutrinos.
Bonet de Lattes 15th-16th century Astronomical ring-dial by means of which solar and stellar altitudes can be measured and the time determined with
great precision by night as well as by day.
Siegfried Marcus[1] 1870 Mobile gasoline combustion engine
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov[18] 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on phagocytosis.
Albert Abraham Michelson [1] Inventor of Interferometer, Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
Hinda Miller[1] co-inventor of the first sports bra Jogbra
Gregory Goodwin Pincus[19] oral contraceptive, antihistamines
Egon Orowan physicist
metallurgist
Stanford R. Ovshinsky energy
information
Reinhold Rudenberg[20] scanning electron microscope
Jonas Salk[1] Developed polio (poliomyelitis) vaccine, wiping out polio in the civilized world.
David Schwartz [21] inventor of Dirigible Zeppelin
Leonid Shvarts, Moisei Komissarchik, Yakov Shor[22] 1942 the Stalin prize for the "development of a new type of weapon" (Katyusha).
Lina Stern 1921 pioneering research on the blood-brain barrier. The results of her work saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War
II.[23]
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis[24] Blue jeans
Leo Szilard[1] 1955
1942
1931 co-invented nuclear fission reactor (1955)
First nuclear reactor (1942), with Enrico Fermi
Patent Electron Microscope (1931)
Alexander Tetelbaum Electronic Design Automation
Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner sound-on-film technology
Stanislaw Ulam mathematics
Selman Waksman[1] medicine streptomycin Nobel Prize (1952) in medicine
Chaim Weizmann[1] Industrial fermentation: used Clostridium acetobutylicum to produce acetone, used in the manufacture of cordite, critical to the
Allies of World War I.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow medical physicist radioimmunoassay
L. L. Zamenhof[25][26] Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.
Yakov Zel'dovich[22] 1939 Zel'dovich Mechanism (oxidation of nitrogen). Also, predicted the beta decay of a p-meson, the muon catalysis. In 1977
was awarded the Kurchatov Medal[27] "for prediction of characteristics of ultracold neutrons, their detection and investigation". Famous for
discovery of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.[28]
Zhores Alferov
Zachariah Allen
Ori Allon
Selig Percy Amoils
Ruth Arnon
Chaim Aronson
Hertha Marks Ayrton
Ralph H. Baer
Paul Baran
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine
Bernhard Baron
Richard E. Bellman
Itzhak Bentov
Felix Berezin
Emile Berliner
Eli Biham
László Bíró
Simcha Blass
Charles K. Bliss
Manuel Blum
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Dan Boneh
Ernst Boris Chain
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Fred Cohen
Stanley Norman Cohen
Paul Ehrlich
Arthur Eichengrün
Alfred Einhorn
Albert Einstein
Paul Eisler
Gertrude B. Elion
Joseph Erlanger
Edward Feigenbaum
Lee Felsenstein
Richard Feynman
Max Fleischer
Joseph Friedman
Julius Fromm
Alexander Frumkin
Dennis Gabor
Yisrael Galili
Samuel Genensky
Hugo Gernsback
David Gestetner
Charles Ginsburg
Donald A. Glaser
Leopold Godowsky, Jr.
Ken Goldberg
Peter Carl Goldmark
Richard Goldner
David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons
Bernard Marshall Gordon
Dahlia Gredinger
Mikhail Gurevich
Fritz Haber
Waldemar Haffkine
Ruth Handler
David Harel
Herbert A. Hauptman
Martin Hellman
Gabriel Iddan
Gavriel Iddan
Gavril Ilizarov
Abram Ioffe
Hanon Izakson
Albert Kahn
Philippe Kahn
Dean Kamen
Viktor Kaplan
Ronald A. Katz
Charles Kelman
Leonard Kleinrock
Hedwig Kohn
Rudolf Kompfner
Arthur Korn
Roger D. Kornberg
Alexander Kronrod
Hedy Lamarr
Edwin H. Land
Robert S. Langer
Esther Lederberg
Leon M. Lederman
Gregory Lekhtman
Abraham Lempel
Sol Leshinsky
David Levy
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Otto Lilienthal
Gabriel Lippmann
Lenny Lipton
Otto Loewi
Siegfried Marcus
Louis Marx
Mary the Jewess
Viktor Meyer
Mordecai Meirowitz
Erich Mendelsohn
Morris Michtom
César Milstein
Marvin Minsky
Michel Mirowski
Georges Montefiore-Levi
Dov Moran
Frank Nabarro
Abraham Nemeth
John von Neumann
Pedro Nunes
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Michael O. Rabin
Jef Raskin
Johann Philipp Reis
Samuel Ruben
Jon Rubinstein
William Salcer
Jonas Salk
David Sarnoff
Morris Schwartz
David Schwarz
Adi Shamir
Isaac Shoenberg
Hayyim Selig Slonimski
Sass Somekh
Lina Stern
Joseph Szydlowski
Theodore von Kármán
Selman Waksman
Gil Weinberg
Chaim Weizmann
Richard Willstätter
Ricardo Wolf
Abraham Zacuto
Moshe Zakai
Alexander Zalmanov
L. L. Zamenhof
Abraham Zelmanov
Jacob Ziv
[edit]References
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t [1]
^ Jewish: American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p. 271; online at [2]; inventor: Web site of the President of South Africa: [3]
^
www.jewishhistory.org.il...
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Review of his book, "The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation" Biblio.com booksellers calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was
born in Prague". Accessed 20 Oct 2006
^ [4]
^ [5] "I literally came as a refugee. I came during the Hitler days. Both my parents and I were Jewish so we had to leave."
^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
^ Buckland, Michael. Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine. Libraries Unlimited, 2006. ISBN 0-313-31332-6.
^ Tales of "Tank city". Rachel Bayvel celebrates the Soviet Jews who produced weapons for Allied victory (Jewish Quarterly) Summer 2005 - Number
198
^ Waldemar Haffkine: Pioneer of Cholera vaccine at American Society for Microbiology
^ [6]
^ [7] "German Jewish inventor of the first practical system to send photos over telephone wires."
^ together with Severo Ochoa
^ Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill (2005). Arthur Kornberg's Discovery of DNA Polymerase, I. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 46.
^ a b Winning Nobel Prizes seems to run in one family's chemistry - and biology by Joe Eskenazi, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
^ Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
^ Jewish mother: Ilya Mechnikov. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908
^ [8] "Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America"
^ Academic Lineage
^ Encyclopaedia Judaica
^ a b Tales of ‘Tank city’. Soviet Jews who produced weapons for Allied victory by Rachel Bayvel. Jewish Quarterly. Summer 2005 - Number 198
^ Lina Stern: Science and fate by A.A. Vein. Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
^ Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America. Florida Atlantic University Libraries
^ "Because of Zamenhof's Jewish origin..." Artificial Language Projects by Lawrence A. Sharpe. South Atlantic Bulletin, Vol. 27, No. 1 (May, 1961),
pp. 1-6
^ ZAMENHOF, LAZARUS LUDWIG Jewish Encyclopedia
^ together with Fyodor Shapiro
^ with Rashid Sunyaev