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LIST OF JEWISH INVENTORS



★ See also List of Jewish Inductees of Hall of Fame
Name Year, invention
Charles Adler [1] horn-actuated traffic lights
Selig Percy Amoils [2] ophthalmologist; Cryoprobe
Herman Aron [4] invented the electric meter
Hertha Ayrton [3] Draughtsmen's tools
Itzhak Bentov[4] Remote controlled cardiac catheter
(US Patent 3605725 September 1971 Bentov)
Lodewyk van Berken[5] 1456: invented scaif, a diamond polishing wheel
Emile Berliner 1 inventor of gramophone
Ludwig Blattner 1 Blattnerphone sound recording machine
Carl Djerassi[6], Gregory Pincus[7], and Frank Colton[8] oral contraceptive, antihistamines
Gertrude Elion 1 anti-leukemia drugs Nobel Prize (1988) in medicine zovirax
Sam 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 [9] duplicator
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes Kodachrome[8] [9]
Sylvan Goldman 1 shopping cart
Peter Carl Goldmark 1 vinyl record
Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons [10] 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 father of supersonic flight
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]Winning Nobel Prizes seems to run in one family's chemistry - and biology by Joe Eskenazi, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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).[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.
Siegfried Marcus 1 1870: mobile gasoline combustion engine
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov[17] 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
Reinhold Rudenberg [18] scanning electron microscope
Jonas Salk 1 Developed polio (poliomyelitis) vaccine, wiping out polio in the civilized world.
David Schwartz [19] inventor of Dirigible Zeppelin
Leonid Shvarts, Moisei Komissarchik, Yakov ShorTales of ‘Tank city’. Soviet Jews who produced weapons for Allied victory by Rachel Bayvel. Jewish Quarterly. Summer 2005 - Number 198 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.[20]
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis[21] Blue jeans
Leo Szilard 1 co-invented nuclear fission reactor (1955), First nuclear reactor (1942),with Enrico Fermi, Patent Electron Microscope (1931)
Selman Waksman 1 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.
L. L. Zamenhof[22][23] Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Nobel Peace Prize, 1910[24]
Yakov Zel'dovich 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[25] "for prediction of characteristics of ultracold neutrons, their detection and investigation". Famous for discovery of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.[26]


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1. [1]
2. Jewish: American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p. 271; online at [2]; inventor: Web site of the President of South Africa: [3]
3. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
4. 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
5. The Diamond Invention. Chapter 11 by Edward Jay Epstein
6. [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."
7. [6] "Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America"
8. [7]
9. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "He was a devout Jew"
10. Tales of "Tank city". Rachel Bayvel celebrates the Soviet Jews who produced weapons for Allied victory (Jewish Quarterly) Summer 2005 - Number 198
11. Waldemar Haffkine: Pioneer of Cholera vaccine at American Society for Microbiology
12. [11]
13. [12] "German Jewish inventor of the first practical system to send photos over telephone wires."
14. together with Severo Ochoa
15. Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill (2005). Arthur Kornberg's Discovery of DNA Polymerase, I. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 46.
16. Roger Kornberg wins the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
17. Jewish mother: Ilya Mechnikov. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908
18. Academic Lineage
19. Encyclopaedia Judaica
20. Lina Stern: Science and fate by A.A. Vein. Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
21. Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America. Florida Atlantic University Libraries
22. "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
23. ZAMENHOF, LAZARUS LUDWIG Jewish Encyclopedia
24. The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize in Peace
25. together with Fyodor Shapiro
26. with Rashid Sunyaev


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