Jewish Biomedical Scientists

JEWISH BIOMEDICAL & LIFE SCIENTISTS

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Sidney Altman Julius Axelrod David Baltimore Robert Bárány Baruj Benacerraf Seymour Benzer Paul Berg Bruce Beutler Konrad Bloch Baruch Blumberg Sydney Brenner Michael Brown Melvin Calvin Sir Ernst Chain Erwin Chargaff Stanley H. Cohen Stanley N. Cohen Gerty Cori Carl Djerassi Gerald Edelman Paul Ehrlich Gertrude Elion Boris Ephrussi Joseph Erlanger Edmond Fischer⁸ Rosalind Franklin Sigmund Freud Casimir Funk Robert Furchgott Walter Gilbert Alfred G. Gilman Joseph Goldstein Waldemar Haffkine Viktor Hamburger Felix Haurowitz Michael Heidelberger George de Hevesy H. Robert Horvitz Alick Issacs François Jacob Eric Kandel Sir Bernard Katz George Klein Sir Aaron Klug	Arthur Kornberg Sir Hans Krebs Karl Landsteiner Joshua Lederberg Phoebus Levene Rita Levi-Montalcini Arnold Levine Fritz Lipmann Jacques Loeb Otto Loewi Salvador Luria André Lwoff Élie Metchnikoff ¹⁸ Otto Meyerhof César Milstein Hermann Muller ²⁰ Daniel Nathans Marshall Nirenberg Sir Max Perutz Gregory Pincus Stanley Prusiner Tadeus Reichstein Alexander Rich Martin Rodbell Albert Sabin Jonas Salk Andrew Schally Solomon Snyder Sol Spiegelman Ralph Steinman Sir John Vane³⁰ Harold Varmus Bert Vogelstein Selman Waksman George Wald Otto Warburg ³² August von Wassermann Robert Weinberg Charles Weissmann Richard Willstätter Rosalyn Yalow Charles Yanofsky Ada Yonath
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Bruce Alberts Sidney Altman Amatus Lusitanus Bruce Ames Christian Anfinsen¹ Daniel Arnon Ruth Arnon Selmar Ascheim Charlotte Auerbach Leopold Auerbach Gerald Aurbach Richard Axel Julius Axelrod David Baltimore Robert Bárány Moses Barron² Jacqueline Barton³ Baruj Benacerraf Carl Benda Reinhold Benesch Ruth Benesch Seymour Benzer Isaac Berenblum Lev (Leo) Berg Paul Berg Max Bergmann Hippolyte Bernheim Alan Bernstein Julius Bernstein Solomon Berson Alexandre Besredka Bruce Beutler Ernest Beutler² Konrad Bloch Barry Bloom Floyd Bloom Jeffrey Bluestone Baruch Blumberg David Bodian Sir Walter Bodmer David Botstein Eugene Braunwald Sydney Brenner Josef Breuer Samuel Broder Bernard Brodie Michael Brown Gustav Bucky Leo Buerger Melvin Calvin Howard Cedar Sir Ernst Chain Martin Chalfie Erwin Chargaff⁴ Aaron Ciechanover Irun Cohen Sir Philip Cohen Stanley H. Cohen Stanley N. Cohen Edwin Cohn Ferdinand Cohn Mildred Cohn Julius Cohnheim Frank Colton Barry Commoner Jerome Conn Gerty Cori⁵ Burrill Crohn William Dameshek Samuel Danishefsky Louis Diamond Carl Djerassi Isaac Djerassi Julius Donath Deborah Doniach Brian Druker Harry Eagle Gerald Edelman Paul Ehrlich Arthur Eichengrun Alfred Einhorn Lawrence Einhorn Herman Eisen Thomas Eisner⁶ Gertrude Elion Walter Elsasser Gustav Embden Boris Ephrussi Sir Anthony Epstein Joseph Erlanger Lars Ernster⁷ Ronald Evans Stanley Falkow Isidor Fankuchen Sidney Farber Alvin Feinstein Marc Feldmann Gary Felsenfeld Alan Fersht Gerald Fink Richard Finkelstein Maxwell Finland Andrew Fire Edmond Fischer⁸ Bernard Fisher Robert D. Fleischmann Simon Flexner M. Judah Folkman Sidney Fox Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat James Franck Rosalind Franklin Samuel Freedman Sigmund Freud Jules Freund Leopold Freund Josef Fried Jeffrey Friedman Charlotte Friend Irving Fritz Joseph Fruton Casimir Funk⁹ Robert Furchgott Charles Gerhardt Richard Gershon Norman Geschwind Walter Gilbert Alfred Gilman Alfred G. Gilman Paul Glansdorff¹¹ Phil Gold Joseph Goldberger Maurice W. Goldblatt Patricia Goldman-Rakic Richard Goldschmidt Avram Goldstein Joseph Goldstein Kurt Goldstein Corey Goodman Louis Goodman Stephen Jay Gould Michael Greenberg Baroness Susan Greenfield Paul Greengard¹² Ludwik Gross Alexander Gutman Waldemar Haffkine Viktor Hamburger Philip Handler Sir Henry Harris¹³ Stephen Harrison William Zev Hassid Herbert Hauptman Felix Haurowitz Georges Hayem Leonard Hayflick Selig Hecht Michael Heidelberger Rudolf Heidenhain Henry Heimlich Richard Held Jacob Henle Avram Hershko Leonard Herzenberg Alfred Hess George de Hevesy Basil Hirschowitz Jack Hirsh Bernard Horecker H. Robert Horvitz Jerome Horwitz Isaac Israeli (Isaac Judaeus) Alick Issacs¹⁴ François Jacob Abraham Jacobi Walter Jacobs Elvin Kabat Herman Kalckar¹⁵ Martin Kamen Eric Kandel Adrian Kantrowitz Henry Kaplan Moritz Kaposi Michael Karin Jerome Karle Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir Aharon Katchalsky-Katzir Sir Bernard Katz Stuart Kauffman David Keilin¹⁶ Seymour Kety Marc Kirschner Richard Klausner Edmund Klein George Klein Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel Nathan Kline Sir Aaron Klug Carl Koller Richard Kolodner Henry Koplik Arthur Kornberg Sir Hans Kornberg	Roger Kornberg Daniel Koshland, Jr. Hans Kosterlitz Sir Hans Krebs Hugo Kronecker Saul Krugman Moses Kunitz Eric Lander Karl Landsteiner Robert Langer Phillip Leder Esther Lederberg Joshua Lederberg Robert Lefkowitz Richard Lerner Jerome Lettvin Phoebus Levene Giuseppe Levi Rita Levi-Montalcini Arnold Levine Michael Levine Philip Levine Rachmiel Levine Cyrus Levinthal Michael Levitt Richard Lewontin David Lipman Fritz Lipmann Harvey Lodish Jacques Loeb Otto Loewi Cesare Lombroso Irving London Alfred Lotka ¹⁷ Alexander Luria Salvador Luria André Lwoff Boris Magasanik Adolf Magnus-Levy Moses Maimonides Lynn Margulis Paul Marks Alton Meister Matthew Meselson Élie Metchnikoff ¹⁸ Karl Meyer Otto Meyerhof Elliot Meyerowitz Leonor Michaelis Felix Milgrom Stanley L. Miller César Milstein Oskar Minkowski Beatrice Mintz Alfred Mirsky Salvador Moncada¹⁹ Julius Morgenroth Harold Morowitz Hermann Muller ²⁰ Hermann Munk David Nachmansohn Daniel Nathans Philip Needleman Albert Neisser Carl Neuberg Albert Neuberger Elizabeth Neufeld Hans Neurath Marshall Nirenberg Sir Gustav Nossal ²¹ Leslie Orgel Garcia da Orta Alwin Pappenheimer Jacob Parnas²² Ira Pastan Sheldon Penman Sir Max Perutz Arnold Pick Ernst Pick Gregory Pincus Stanley Plotkin Adam Politzer Carl Prausnitz²³ Karl Pribram Ilya Prigogine²⁴ Nathaniel Pringsheim Stanley Prusiner Mark Ptashne Theodore Puck Juda Quastel Efraim Racker Henry Rappaport Sarah Ratner Aharon Razin Tadeus Reichstein Robert Remak Alexander Rich Arnold Rich David Rittenberg Martin Rodbell Ivan Roitt Moritz Romberg Michael Rosbash Harry Rose Irwin Rose Saul Roseman Robert Rosen Milton Rosenau Barnett Rosenberg Saul Rosenberg Steven Rosenberg Michael Rosenfeld Michael Rossmann²⁵ Jesse Roth James Rothman ²⁶ Aser Rothstein Samuel Ruben Harry Rubin Gary Ruvkun Albert Sabin Bernard Sachs Leo Sachs Ruth Sager Jonas Salk Stanley Sarnoff Lewis Sarett ²⁸ Andrew Schally ²⁹ Randy Schekman²⁶ Bela Schick Joseph Schlessinger Rudolph Schoenheimer Stuart Schlossman Edward Scolnick Michael Sela Shepard Shapiro Aaron Shatkin Alan Sher Philip Siekevitz Irving Sigal Paul Sigler Louis Siminovitch Maxine Singer Robert Sinsheimer Solomon Snyder Franz Sondheimer Nahum Sonenberg Sol Spiegelman Michael Sporn Meir Stampfer William Stein Ralph Steinman Gunther Stent Curt Stern Leo Sternbach Benedict Stilling Gilbert Stork³⁰ Jack Strominger Lubert Stryer Leo Szilard Howard Temin Max Tishler Isidor Traube Ludwig Traube Sidney Udenfriend Gabriel Valentin Sir John Vane³² Harold Varmus Alexander Varshavsky Bert Vogelstein Vito Volterra Salome Waelsch Selman Waksman George Wald Otto Warburg ³³ August von Wassermann Carl Weigert Robert Weinberg Georges Weiss Paul Weiss Irving Weissman Charles Weissmann Georges Fernand Widal Alexander Wiener Michael Wigler Meir Wilchek Richard Willstätter Maxwell Wintrobe Ernest Witebsky Elie Wollman Lewis Wolpert Michael Woolfson Richard Wurtman Ernst Wynder³⁴ Rosalyn Yalow Charles Yanofsky Ada Yonath Zacutus Lusitanus Amotz Zahavi Anatol Zhabotinsky³⁵ Norton Zinder Bernhard Zondek Lord Solly Zuckerman Emile Zuckerkandl Nathan Zuntz
NOTES 1. Convert to Judaism. See http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/KK. 2. *See Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 11 (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, p. 1200).* 3. See interview in Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists, by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2003, p. 159). 4. *See interview in Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists, by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2000, p. 19).* 5. Gerty Cori appears on some Jewish lists, but not on others, and has been described as being only half-Jewish. The most comprehensive biographical portrait of her is contained in Sharon McGrayne's Nobel Prize Women in Science (Birch Lane, New York, NY, 1993). McGrayne's account is based on interviews with more than a dozen of Cori's close friends and associates, with the details of her religious background obtained from interviews with Professor Viktor Hamburger and Ann Cori. According to McGrayne, Cori was Jewish, but converted to Roman Catholicism prior to her marriage to Carl Cori in order to lessen the objections of his family, which felt that marriage to a Jewish woman would doom his prospects for an academic career in Europe. This is in close agreement with the note on Gerty Cori published by Joseph Larner in Biographical Memoirs, Volume 61 (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1992, p. 112). Further confirmation can be found in the interview with Arthur Kornberg (1959) that appears in Candid Science II by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 58). 6. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 7. See interview in Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists, by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 378). 8. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother, according to a follow-up dipatch issued by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) several days after publication of its October 14, 1992 story on that year's Nobel Prizes, written by Tom Tugend. Fischer is a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute. 9. Information elsewhere on the Web contains the claim that Casimir Funk was not Jewish. Among the many references which describe Funk as having been Jewish is Who's Who in World Jewry 1965: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews, edited by Harry Schneiderman and I.J. Carmin Karpman (McKay, New York, 1965, p. 417). This reference is particularly significant in this case since all of the biographical profiles that it contains were based on data supplied by the profiled individuals themselves, and later approved by them. 11. See http://www.amyisrael.co.il/europe/belgium/#Jews in Belgium. 12. Although born to Jewish parents, Greengard's mother died in childbirth and he was raised as a Christian by a non-Jewish stepmother; see http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/2000/greengard-autobio.html and interview in Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists, by Balazs Hargittai and István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2005, pp. 650-653). 13. See Racing to the Beginning of the Road, by Robert Weinberg (Random House, New York, 1996, p. 230). 14. See The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists: Biologists, edited by David Abbott (Bedrick, New York, 1984, p. 72). See also A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System, by Stephen Hall (Henry Holt, New York, 1997, pp. 136-137). 15. See http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/hkalckar.html. 16. See http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/guidei-k.htm#DKeilin. 17. Alfred Lotka was born in 1880 in Lemberg, Austria-Poland to parents who were missionaries associated with the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews. Many of these missionaries, including Lotka's father, were converted Jews themselves. In his History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews (London, 1908), W. T. Gidney describes Jacob Lotka (the father of Alfred Lotka) as a "Polish Israelite" (p. 354) and as a "Hebrew Christian" (p. 614). Jacob (also known as Jacques) Lotka headed the Society's station in Lemberg in the years 1873-1881 and later undertook missions to Jewish communities in Persia, Russia, and Hungary. No information in this respect is available to us at present concerning the mother of Alfred Lotka. 18. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father. 19. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father; identifies as a Jew, according to interview in Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists, by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 567). 20. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father. 21. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother; see http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/1998/2/wtmar12.htm. 22. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_p.htm. 23. Jewish maternal grandparents and paternal grandfather, non-Jewish paternal grandmother. 24. See the December 1980 issue of Quest, p. 86, in which Mary Lukas describes the Prigogine family's emigration from revolutionary Russia to Berlin, and finally to Brussels, where Prigogine found himself "an oddity, a little Jewish boy from somewhere in the East." See also The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners 1901-1995, 3rd Ed. by Bernard S. and June H. Schlessinger (Oryx Press, Phoenix, AZ, 1996, p. 33), http://www.amyisrael.co.il/europe/belgium/#Jews in Belgium, and http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_p.htm. 25. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father according to interview in Bitter Prerequisites: A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror, by William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, IN, 2001, p. 48). See also http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/010216.Nat.Ahlbrandt.book.html. 26. See last paragraph of http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/2002_b_presentation.htm. 28. Jewish father (poet and naturalist Lew Sarett, born Lewis Saretsky), non-Jewish mother. 29. See The Timetables of Jewish History by Judah Gribetz (Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1993, p.634 ); Jews and Medicine, by Frank Heynick (KTAV, Hoboken, NJ, 2002, p. 574); and http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1977/schally-autobio.html. 30. *See interview in Candid Science III: More Conversations with Famous Chemists, by Istvan Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2003, p. 117).* 32. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother, according to an interview published in Candid Science II, by István Hargittai (Imperial College Press, London, 2002, p. 562). 33. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother. 34. See Racing to the Beginning of the Road, by Robert Weinberg (Random House, New York, 1996, p. 19). 35. See http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/rje_z.htm.

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