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Samson Abramsky RW5 Img British computer scientist, 2004 1953-
Saul Adler RWC HW Img Belarusian-born British Israeli parasitologist, microbiologist, 1957 1895-1966
David Aldous RW5 Img British American mathematician, statistician, 1994 1952-
Ephraim Anderson RWB Img British microbiologist, 1968 1911-2006
Edward Andrade RWC Img British physicist, writer, poet, radio personality, 1935 1887-1971
Sir Eric Ash RWF Img German-born British electric engineer, 1977 1928- ExLink
Charlotte Auerbach RWF Img German-born British geneticist, 1957 1899-1994
Alan Baker RWF Img British mathematician, 1973 1939-2018
George Basevi RWB Img British architect, 1843 1794-1845
Jeremy Baumberg RW5 Img British nanoscientist, 2011 ExLink
Polina Bayvel RWC Img Ukrainian-born British engineering scholar, 2016 1966-
Sir Otto Beit RW5 Img German-born South African diamond magnate, art collector, 1924 1930
Yoshua Bengio RWC Img French-born Canadian  computer scientist, 2020 1964-
Dame Valerie Beral RWC Img Australian-born  British epidemiologist, 2006 1946-
Sidney van den Bergh RWF Img Dutch-born Canadian astronomer, 1988 1929-
Samuel Berkovic RW5 Img Australian neurologist,  2007 1953-
John Bernal RWF HW Img Irish-born British physicist, historian of science, (Jewish father) 1937 1901-71
Sir Michael Berry RWF HW Img British physicist, 1982 1941-
Abram Besicovitch RWF Img Ukrainian-born British mathematician, (karaite) 1934 1891-1970
Moses Blackman RW5 Img South African-born British crystallographer, 1962 1983
Hugh Blaschko Img German-born British pharmacologist, 1962 1993
Helen Blau RWF Img British-born American cell biologist, 2024 1948-
Sir Stephen Bloom Img British medical scholar, ??? 2013 1942-
Martin Bobrow Img South African-born British geneticist, 2004 1938-
Sir Walter Bodmer RWF Img British geneticist, 1974 1936-
David Bohm RWF HW Img American British quantum physicist, philosopher of science, 1990 1917-92
Sir Hermann Bondi RWF HW Img Austrian-born British cosmologist, 1959 2005
Gustav Born RW5 Img German pharmacologist, 1972 1921-
Max Born RWF HW Img German-born British physicist, Nobel prize (1954) 1939 1882-1970
Sydney Brenner RWF HW Img South African-born British American biologist, Nobel Prize (2002), 1965 1927-
Baron John Browne RW5 Img German-born British politician, businessman, science writer, (Jewish mother) 2006 1948-
Edith Bulbring RWC Img German-born British pharmacologist (Jewish mother), 1958 1903-90
Sir Arnold Burgen RW5 Img British pharmacologist, President of Academia Europaea 1988-94 1964 1922-
Robert Cahn RWB Img German-born British physicist, materials science 1991 1924-2007
Sir Roy Calne RW5 Img German-born British surgeon, liver transplatation, 1974 1930-
Brian Cantor RWB HW Img British Vice-Cnancellor of the University of York 2002-13, 2024 1948-
Jacob de Castro Sarmento RWF Img Portuguese-born British physician,    1730 1692-1762
Sir Ernst Chain RWF HW Img German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize (1945) in medicine, 1949 1906-79
Enrico Coen RWF Img British plant biologist,  ??? 1998 1957- ExLink
Sir Philip Cohen RWF Img British biochemist, diabetes insulin 1984 1945-
Sydney Cohen RWC Img South African-born British pathologist, 1990 1921-
Paul Cohn RWF Img German-born British mathematician,    1980 1924-2006
Emanuel Mendes da Costa RWC Img British botanist, naturalist, philosopher, palntologist, 1747 1717-91
Moses da Costa RW5 British botanist, naturalist philosopher, banker, 1737 -1747
Sir David Cox RW5 Img British statistician, 1977 1924-
Richard Dalitz RW5 Img Australian-born American British physicist, 1960 1925-2006
Keith Dalziel Img British biochemist, 1975 1921-94 ExLink
Henry Daniels RW5 Img British statistician, 1980 1912-2000
Peter Dayan RW5 Img British neuroscientist, 2018
David Deutsch RWF Img Israeli-born British physicist, quantum computing 2008 1953-
Samuel Devons RW5 Img British physicist, science historian, 1955 1914-2006
Earl Benjamin Disraeli RWF HW Img British prime minister of United Kingdom 1868 1874-1880, 1876 1804-81
Cyril Domb RW5 HW Img British Israeli physicist, 1977 1912-2012
Daniel Drucker Img Canadian endocrinilogist, 2015 1956-
Jack Dunitz RWC Img British-born Swiss chemical crystallographer, 1974 1923- ExLink
Raymond Dwek RW5 Img British biochemist, 1998 1941-
Baron Sampson Eardley RW5 Img British politician, MP 1770-1802, (Jewish father) 1789 1824
Sir Anthony Epstein RWF Img British biologist, Epstein-Barr virus, 1979 1921-
David Epstein RW5 Img British mathematician, 2004 ExLink
Arthur Erdelyi RWF Img Hungarian-born Czech British mathematician, 1975 1908-77 ExLink
Bernie Fanaroff RW5 Img South African-born astronomer, trade unionist, 2019 1947-
Paul Fatt RW5 Img British neuroscientist, 1969 ExLink
Wilhelm Feldberg RW5 Img German-born British physiologist, biologist,  1947 1900-93
Sir Marc Feldmann RWF Img Polish/Ukrainian-born Australian British immunologist,rheumatologist, rheumatoid arthritis,  2006 1944-
Arthur Felix RW5 Img Polish bacteriologist, serologist, 1943 1887-1956
Sir Alan Fersht RW5 Img British chemist, protein folding, 1983 1943-
Sir Montague Finniston RW5 Img British indusrialist, chairman of British Steel 1969 1912-91 British Steel
Michael Fisher RWF Img British American physicist, chemist, mathematician, 1971 1931- ExlLink
Martin Fleischmann RWC Img Czech-born British chemist, 1986 1927-2012
Carlos Frenk Img Mexican British cosmologist, (Jewish father) 2004 1951-
Sir Otto Frankel RWF Img Austrian-born Australian geneticist, 1953 1900-98
Sir Richard Friend RWF Img British physicist, (Jewish father) 1993 1953-
Otto Frisch RWF Img Austrian British physicist, 1948 1904-79
Chris Frith RW5 Img British neuroscientist, psychologist, 1942-
Albrecht Frohlich RW5 Img German-born British mathematician,  1976 1916-2001
Herbert Frohlich RWF Img German-born British physicist, superconductivity, 1951 1905-91 ExLink
Steve Furber RWF Img British computer scientist, ??? 2002 1953-
Dennis Gabor RWF HW Img Hungarian-born German British physicist, Nobel Prize (1971), hollogram 1956 1900-79 ExLink
Sir Andre Geim RWF HW Img Russian-born British physicist, graphene, Nobel Prize (2010) (Jewish maternal great grandmother) 2007 1958-
David Glass RW5 Img British sociologist, demographer, 1971 1911-78
Sir Peter Gluckman RWF Img New Zealand medical doctor, biologist, 2001 1949-
Eugen Glueckauf RW5 Img German-born British expert of atomic energy, 1969 1906-81
Ian Glynn RW5 Img British biologist,  1970 1928-
Thomas Gold RWF Img Austrian-born British physicist, astronomer, (Jewish father) 1964 1920-2004
Victor Gold RW5 Austrian-born British chemist,    1972 1922-85 ExLink
Peter Goldreich RWF Img American astrophysicist, 2004 1939-
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid RW5 Img British banker, first Jewish baronet, 1828 1778-1859
Raymond Goldstein RW5 Img American biophysicist, ??? 1961-
Sydney Goldstein RWF Img British American mathematician, 1937 1903-89
Jeffrey Goldstone RWF Img British-born American theoretical physicist, 1977 1933-
Benjamin Gompertz RWF Img British mathematician, astronom, 1819 1779-1865
Andrew Goodwin Img British chemist, ??? 2023
Viscount George Goschen RWF Img British Chancellor of Exchecquer 1887-92, 1872 1831-1907
Ian Grant RW5 Img British physicist, 1992 1930-
Michael Green RWF Img British physicist, string theory, 1989 1946-
Hans Gruneberg RW5 Img German-born British geneticist, 1956 1907-82
Herbert Gutfreund RWB Img Austrian-born British biochemist, 1981 1921-
Sir Ludwig Guttmann RWF HW Img German-born British neurologist,  1976 1899-1980
Jack Halpern RW5 Img Polish-born Canadian American chemist, 1974 1925-
Sir Henry Harris RW5 Img Russian-born Australian British biologist, 1968 1925-2014
Michael Hassell RW5 Img Israeli-born British biologist, entomologist, 1987 1942-
Walter Hayman RW5 British mathematician, (Jewish great grandmother) 1956 1926-2020
Sir Ian Heilbron RWF Img British chemist, 1931 1886-1959
Hans Heilbronn RW5 Img German-born British Canadian mathematician, 1951 1908-75
Walter Heitler RWF Img German-born Irish Swiss physicist, quantum chemistry 1948 1904-81
Sir John Herschel RWF HW Img British mathematician, astronomer, chemist, (Jewish paternal grandfather) 1813 1792-1871
Sir William Herschel RWF HW Img German-born British astronomer, composer, (Jewish father) 1781 1738-1822
Baron Farrer Herschell RWC Img British Lord Chancellor 1886 1992-95 1892 1837-99
Sir Peter Hirsch RWF Img German-born British physicist,material science, 1963 1925-
Sir Gabriel Horn RW5 Img British biologist,  1986 1927-2012
Ehud Hrushovski RWC HW Img Israeli mathematical logician, 2020 1959-
Herbert Huppert RW5 Img Australian-born British geophysicist, 1987 1943-
Anthony Hyman RWC Img Israeli-born British biologist, 2007 1962-
Walter Hyman RW5 Img German-born British mathematician, (Jewish anchesty) 1956 1926-
Vernon Ingram RWB Img German-born American biologist, 1924-2006
Alick Isaacs RW5 Img British virologist, inteferon, 1966 1921-67
Peter Isaacson Img British pathologist, ??? 2009
David Ish-Horowicz RW5 Img British developmental geneticist, 2002 1948-
Werner Israel RW5 HW Img German-born South-African Canadian physicist, cosmologist, 1986 1931-
Jacob Israelachvili RWC Img Israeli-born American British chemical engineering scientist, 1988 1944-
William Jacob RWB Img British merchant, scientist, politician, MP 1806-11,  ??? 1807 1761-1851
Patricia Jacobs RWC Img British geneticist, 1993 1934- ExLink
Lisa Jardine RWC Img British historian, 2015 1944-
Sir George Jessel RWC Img Liberal MP 1868- Solicitor General, Master of the Rolls 1880 1824-83
Thomas Jessell RWF Img British-born American biochemist, (one not Jewish paternal grandparent) 1996 1951-
Philip Johnson-Laird RWF Img American British psychologist, 1991 1936-
Sir Brian Josephson RWF HW Img British physicist, Nobel Prize (1973), 1970 1940-
Franz Daniel Kahn RW5 Img German-born British mathematician, astrophysicist, 1993 1926-98
George Kalmus RWB Img Yugoslavian-born British particle physicist, 1988 1935-
Sir Bernard Katz RWF HW Img German-born British biophysicist, Nobel Prize (1970) in medicine, 1952 1911-2003
Lewis Kay Img Canadian cell biologist, biochemist, 2010 1967-
David Keilin RWC Img Russian-born British entomologist, parasitologist, 1928 1887-1963 ExLink
Andrew Keller RW5 Img Hungarian-born British polymer scientist, 1972 1925-99
Olga Kennard RWF HW Img British crystallographer, 1987 1924-
Sir David King RW5 Img South African-born British chemist, 1991 1939-
Mark Kisin RW5 Img Lithuanian-born American mathematician, ??? 2008
Emanuel Klein Img Croatian-born British bacteriologist, 1875 1844-1925
Michael Klein Img British-born American computetional chemist, 2003 1940-
Sir David Klenerman RW5 Img British  biochemist, 2012
Sir Aaron Klug RWF HW Img Lithuanian-born, South African British scientist, Nobel Prize (1982) in chemistry, 1969 1926-
Sir Ralph Kohn RW5 Img German-born British businessman, singer,  2006 1927- ExLink
Sir Hans Kornberg RWF Img German-born British biochemist, 1965 1928- ExLink
Hans Kosterlitz RW5 Img German-born British biologist, endorphins, 1978 1903-96 ExLink
Michael Kosterlitz RWF Img British-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (2016), 1942-
Sir Hans Krebs RWF HW Img German-born British biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953) in Medicine, 1947 1900-81
Baron John Krebs RWF Img British zoologist, 1984 1945-
Georg Kreisel RW5 Img Austrian-born British American mathematitical logician, 1966 1923-2015
Hans Kronberger Img Austrian-born British nuclear physicist, 1965 1920-70
Peter Kronheimer RW5 Img British mathematician, 1997 1963-
Sir Harold Kroto RWF HW Img British chemist, Nobel Prize (1996), (Jewish father) 1990 1939-
Nicholas Kurti RWF Img Hungarian-born British physicist, low-temperature, 1956 1908-98
Sir Peter Lachmann Img German-born British immunologist, 1982 1931-
Alan Lehmann Img British molecular geneticist, (Jewish father) 2010
Rudi Lemberg Img German-born Australian biochemist,    1952 1896-1975
Michael Levitt RWF HW Img South Africa-born British American biophysicist, Nobel Prize (2013) in chemistry, 2001 1947- ExLink
Malcolm Levitt RWB Img British physical chemist, 2007 ExLink
Ottoline Leyser RWF Img British plant biologist, (Jewish father) 2007 1965-
Stafford Lightman RW5 Img British medical scholar, neurologist, endocrinologist, 2017 1948-
Henry Lipson RW5 HW Img British physicist, 1957 1910-91
Peter Liss RW5 Img British enviromental chemist, 2008 ExLink
Hans Lissmann RW5 Img Ukrainian-born British zoologist, ??? 1954 1909-95
Sir Ben Lockspeiser RW5 Img British physicist, first president of CERN, 1949 1891-1990 CERN
Heinz London RW5 Img German physicist, inventor, 1961 1907-70
Alvaro Lopes Suasso Dutch fellow of Royal Society, 1735 1752
Otto Lowenstein Img German-born American psychiatrist, ophthamologist, 1955 1889-1965 ExLink
Kurt Mahler RWF Img German-born, British Australian mathematician, 1948 1903-88
Peter Maitlis RWB Img Britisn chemist, 1984 1933- ExLink
Joel Mandelstam RW5 Img South African-born British microbiologist, 1971 1919-2008
Stanley Mandelstam RWF Img South African-born British American theoretical physicist, 1962 1928-
David May HW Img British chip designer, computer scientist, ??? 1991 1951-
Raphael Meldola RWC HW Img British chemist, entomologist, 1886 1849-1915
Kurt Mendelssohn RWF Img German-born British medical physicist cryogenic engineering  1951 1906-80
Leon Mestel RWF Img Australian-born British astronomer, 1977 1927-
Samuel Milner Img British physicist, 1922 1958-
Cesar Milstein RWF HW Img Argentine-born British biochemist, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1984) in medicine, 1975 1927-2002
Valerie Mizrahi RWC Img South African molecular biologist, microbiologist, 2023 1958-
Baron Alfred Mond RWC HW Img British industrialist, financier, politician, 1928 1868-1930
Ludwig Mond RWF Img German-born chemist, industrialist, 1891 1939-09
Sir Robert Mond RW5 Img British chemist, archaeologist, 1938 1867-1938
Sir Moses Montefiore RWF HW Img Italian-born British financier, philantropist, 1836 1784-1885
Louis Mordell RWF HW Img American-born British mathematician,  1824 1888-1972
Charles Myers RWC Img British psychologist, 1915 1873-1946
Frank Nabarro RWF Img British-born South African physicist, 1971 1916-2006
Albert Neuberger RW5 Img German-born British biochemist, 1951 1908-96
Baron David Neuberger RW5 Img Brirish President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom 2012-17 , 2017 1948-
Michael Neuberger RW5 Img British biochemist, immunologist, 1993 1953-2013
Bernhard Neumann RW5 Img German-born British mathematician, 1959 1909-2002
Max Newman RWF Img British mathematician, codebreaker, (Jewish father) 1939 1897-1984
Sir Gustav Nossal RWF Img Austrian-born Australian biologist,  (Jewish father) 1982 1931-
Leslie Orgel RWF Img British chemist, 1962 1927-2007
Egon Orowan RWF Img Hungarian-born British American physicist, 1947 1902-89
Bernard Pagel RW5 Img German-born British astrophysicist, 1992 1930-2007
Sir Francis Palgrave RWF Img British historian, critic, poet, 1821 1788-1861
Sir Inglis Palgrave RWF Img Brirish economist, (Jewish father) 1882 1827-1919
Friedrich Paneth RWF Img Austrian British chemist, 1947 1887-1958
Laurence Pearl Img British biochemist, structual biologist, 2008 1956-
Sir Rudolf Peierls RWF Img German-born American British physicist, 1945 1907-95
Oliver Penrose Img British theoretical physicist, (Jewish maternal grandmother) 1929-
Sir Roger Penrose RWF Img British mathematician, physicist, cosmologist, Nobel Prize (Jewish maternal grandmother) 1931-
Sir Michael Pepper RW5 Img British physicist, 1983 1942-
Sir Mark Pepys Img British immunologist, 1998
Jacob Pereira RW5 Img Portuguese-born French deaf-mute language inventor, (converso descent) 1760 1715-80
Jonathan Pereira RW5 Img British pharmacologist, 1838 1804-53
Sir Max Perutz RWF HW Img Austrian-born British chemist, Nobel Prize (1962), 1954 1914-2002
Robin Perutz RWB Img British chemist, 2010 1949-
Gordon Plotkin RW5 Img British computer scientist, 1992 1946-
John Polanyi RWF HW Img German-born British Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize (1986) (Jewish father) 1971 1929-
Michael Polanyi RWF HW Img Hungarian-born German British chemist, philosopher, polymath, 1944 1891-1976
Sir Martyn Poliakoff RWF HW Img British chemist, 2002 1947-
Guido Pontecorvo RWF Img Italian-born British  geneticist, 1955 1907-99 ExLink
Sir Karl Popper RWF HW Img Austrian-born British philosopher of science 1976 1902-94
David Preiss RW5 Img British mathematician, ??? 2004 1947-
Joseph Proudman RW5 Img British oceanographer, mathematician, ??? 1925 1888-1975
Judah Quastel RW5 Img British-born Canadian biochemist, 1940 1899-1987
Seymour Rabinovitch RWF Img Canadian chemist, 1987 1919-2014
Richard Rado RWF Img German-born British mathematician, combinatorics, graph theory , 1978 1906-89
Geoffrey Raisman RW5 Img British neuroscientist, 1939-
William Rankine RWF Img British engineer, physicist, mathematician, ??? 1853 1820-72
Ralph Raphael RW5 Img British organic chemist, 1962 1921-98
Joseph Raphson RW5 British mathematician, 1689 1648-1715
Sir Harry Ricardo RW5 Img British engineer, engine designer, (Jewish paternal grandfather) 1929 1885-1974
Maurice Rice Img Irish-born British physicist, ??? 2002
Loren Rieseberg RW5 Img Canadian American botanist, ??? 1961-
Ivan Roitt RW5 Img British biologist, biochemist, 1983 1927-
David Ron Img Israeli-born British biochemist, 2014
Louis Rosenhead RW5 Img British applied mathematician, 1946 1906-84
Baron Max Rosenheim Img British physician, administrator, 1972 1908-72 ExLink
Otto Rosenheim German-born British chemist, biochemist, 1927 1955
Douglas Ross RW5 Img British physicist, 2005 1948- ExLink
Sir Joseph Rotblat RWF HW Img Polish-born British physicist, Nobel Prize (1995) for Peace, 1995 1908-2005
Klaus Roth RWF Img German-born British mathematician, 1960 1925-2015
Sir Martin Roth RW5 Img Hungarian-born British psychiatrist, 1996 1917-2006
Dame Miriam Rothschild RWF Img British entomologist, zoologist, 1985 1908-2005
Baron Victor Rothschild RWF Img British biologist, 1953 1910-90
Baron Walter Rothschild RWF HW Img Brirtish banker, zoologist,    1911 1868-1937
David Rubinsztein Img British neuroscientist, 2017 1963-
Leo Sachs RWC HW Img German-born Israeli molecular biologist, cancer researcher, 1997 1924-2013
Philip Saffman RW5 Img British-born  American applied mathematician, 1988 1931-2008 ExLink
Baron David Sainsbury RW5 Img chairman of J Sainsbury plc 2008 1940-
Redcliffe Salaman RW5 Img British biologist, physician, 1935 1955 ExLink
Joseph Salvador RWF British businessman, British East India Company, 1759 1716-86
Isaac de Sequeira Samuda RW5 Img British physician, the first Jewish FRS; 1723 1681-1729 ExLink
Sir Bernhard Samuelson Img German-born British politician, MP 1865-95 1881 1820-1905
Jeremy Sanders RWC Img British chemist, 1995 1948-
Peter Sarnak RWF HW Img South African-born American mathematician, 2002 1953-
David Schindler RWB Img American Canadian limnologist, ??? 2001 1940-
Meyer Schomberg RWC German British physician,  1726 1690-1761
Samuel Schryver Img British biochemist, 1928 1869-1929
Sir Arthur Schuster RWF Img German-born British physicist, 1879 1851-1934
Dennis Sciama RWF HW Img British physicist, 1983 1926-99
Anthony Segal RWF Img South African British biochemist, 1998 1944-
Graeme Segal RW5 Img British mathematician, 1982 1941- ExLink
Charles Seligman RW5 Img British ethnologist, 1919 1873-1940
David Shoenberg RWF Img British physicist, 1953 1911-2004
Molly Shoichet RWF Img Canadian biochemical engineer, tissue engineering, 2019
Joseph Silk RWF Img Brirish-born American astrophysicist, 1999 1942-
Bernard Silverman RW5 Img Brirish statistician, 1997 1952-
James Sylvester RWF HW Img British mathematician, poet, translator, 1839 1814-97
Louis Siminovitch RWF Img Canadian molecular biologist, 1980 1920-
Sir Francis Simon RWF Img German-born British physical chemist, physicist, 1941 1893-1956
Leon Simon RW5 Img Australian-born American mathematician, 2003 1945-
Allan Snyder RW5 Img American-born Australian neuroscientist, 1990
Franz Sondheimer RWC Img German-born British Israeli organic chemist , 1967 1926-81 ExLink
Nahum Sonenberg RWF HW Img German-born Israeli Canadian microbiologist, biochemist, 2006 1946-
Walter Spear RW5 Img German-born British physicist, (Jewish father) 1980 1921-2008
David Spiegelhalter RW5 Img British statistician, 2005 1953-
Baron Nicholas Stern RWF Img British economist, Chief Economist of the World Bank 2000-03, 2014 1946-
Ilya Sutskever RW5 Img Russian-born American computer scientist, 2022 1985-
Michael Szwarc RWF HW Img Polish-born British American polymer chemist, 1966 1909-2000
David Tabor RWF Img British physicist, 1963 1913-2005
Phillip Tobias RWF Img South African-born American paleoanthropologist, 1996 1925-2012
Samuel Tolansky RWC Img British spectroscopist, 1952 1908-73
Fritz Ursell RW5 Img German-born British mathematician, 1972 1923-2012
Leslie Valiant RWF HW Img British American computer scientist, parallel computation 1991 1949-
Sir John Vane RWF Img British pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1982) in medicine (Jewish father) 1974 1927-2004
Philip Wadler Img American computer scientist, 2023 1956-
Gabriel Waksman Img British biochemist, 2012 1949-
Sir Nicholas Wald Img British epidemiologist, educator, 2004 1944-
Herman Waldmann RWB Img British immunologist, biologist, 1990 1945-
Nathaniel Wallich RWF Img Danish-born Indian botanist, surgeon, 1829 1786-1854
Sir Mark Walport RWF Img British immunologist, rheumatologist, administrator, 2011 1953-
Felix Weinberg RWF Img Czech-born British physicist, 1983 1928-2012
Lawrence Weiskrantz RW5 Img British psychologist, 1980 1926-
Gerald Westheimer RW5 Img German-born Australian physicist, optometrist, 1984 1924-
Daniel Wise RW5 Img American mathematician, 2018 1971-
Nathaniel Wolf Img Polish British physician, astronomer, 1777 1724-84
Eric Wolff Img British atmospheric chemist, climatologist, 2010 1957
Sir Isaac Wolfson RW5 HW Img British businesman, philantropist, 1963 1897-1991
Baron Leonard Wolfson RW5 Img British businesman, philantropist, 2005 1927-2010 honorary member
Daniel Wolpert RW5 Img British neuroscientist, physiologist, engineer, 2012 1963-
Lewis Wolpert RWF Img South African-born British developmental biologist, broadcaster, author, 1980 1929-
Michael Woolfson RW5 Img British physicist, planetary scientist, 1984 1927-
Baron Henry de Worms RWC Img British politician, 1889 1840-1903 ExLink
Sir Alfred Yarrow RWF Img British shipbilder, (Jewish mother) 1922 1842-1932 ExLink1
Alec Young RWC Img British aerocraft engineer, 1973 1913-2005
Oliver Zangwill RW5 Img British neuropsychologist, (Jewish father) 1977 1913-1987
John Ziman RWF Img British-born New Zealand physicist, humanist,  1967 1925-2005
Andrew Zisserman RW5 Img British computer scientist, ??? 2007 1957-
Baron Solly Zuckerman RWF Img South African-born British anatomist, zoologist, operational research pioneer, 1943 1904-93
Foreign Members elected bo-de
Anatole Abragam RWF HW Img Latvian-born French physicist, NMR, 1983 1914-2011
Alexei Abrikosov RWF HW Img Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003), (Jewish mother) 2001 1928-
Yakir Aharonov RWF HW Img Israeli American physicist, 2024 1932-
Amnon Aharony RWC HW Img Israeli physicist, 1943-
Bruce Alberts RWF Img American biochemist, molecular biology, president of NAS 1993-2005 1993 1938- FM
Vladimir Arnold RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Russian American mathematician, (Jewish mother) 1988 1937-2010
Kenneth Arrow RWF HW Img American economist, Nobel Prize (1972), 2006 1921-
Richard Axel RWF HW Img American biochemist, Nobel Prize (2004), 2014 1946-
Julius Axelrod RWF HW Img American biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1970) in physiology/medicine, 1979 1912-2004
Adolf von Baeyer RWF HW Img German chemist, Nobel Prize (1905) (Jewish mother) 1835-1917
David Baltimore RWF Img American biologist, retroviruses, Nobel Prize (1975), 1987 1938-
Grigory Barenblatt RWF Img Russian mathematician, 2000 1927-
Barry Barish RWF HW Img American experimental physicist, Nobel Prize (2017) 2019 1936-
Allan Basbaum RW5 Img American neuroscientist,  2006 1947- ExLink
Bonnie Bassler RW5 Img American molecular biologist, (Jewish father) 2012 1962-
Seymour Benzer RWF Img American  physicist, biologist, geneticist, 1976 1921-2007
Paul Berg RWF HW Img American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980) in chemistry,  1992 1926-
Hans Bethe RWF HW Img German-American physicist, Nobel Prize (1967), (Jewish mother) 1957 1906-2005
Konrad Bloch RWF HW Img German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1964) in medicine, 1985 1912-2000
Niels Bohr RWF HW Img Danish-born British American physicist, Nobel Prize (1922 ), (Jewish mother) 1926 1885-1962
Raoul Bott RWF Img Hungarian-born American mathematician, (Jewish mother) 2005 1923-2005
Ronald Breslow RWF Img American chemist, 2000 1931- ExLink
Edouard Brezin RW5 Img French physicist, 2006 1938-
Michael Brown RWF HW Img American geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985), 1991 1941-
Melvin Calvin RWF HW Img American biochemist, photosynthesis, Nobel Prize (1961) , 1959 1911-97
Vint Cerf RWF HW Img American internet pioneer, (3/4 Jewish father) 2016 1943-
Catherine Cesarsky RWC Img French-born astronomer, 2005 1943-
Martin Chalfie RWF HW Img American neurobiologist, Nobel Prize (2008) in chemistry , 2018 1947-
David Chandler RW5 Img American chemist, 2011 1944-
Ernst Cohen RWF Img Dutch physical chemist, nitrogen fixation, geologist, 1926 1869-1944
Ferdinand Cohn RWF Img German/Polish-born  botanist, microbiologist, 1893 1828-98
Luigi Cremona RWF Img Italian mathematician, politician, Minister of Education, 1879 1830-1903
Stanley Deser RWF Img Polish/Ukrainian-born American particle physicist, 1994 1931-
Carl Djerassi RWF Img Austrian-born American organic chemist, oral contraceptive, novelist, playwright, 2010 1923-2015
Odile Eisenstein RW5 Img French theoretical chemist, 2023 1949-
Paul Ehrlich RWF Img American entomologist, 2012 1932-
Paul Ehrlich RWF HW Img German-born physician, immunologist, hematologist, Nobel Prize (1908) in medicine, 1910 1854-1915
Albert Einstein RWF HW Img German-born Swiss American physicist, Nobel Prize (1921), 1921 1879-1955
Willem Einthoven RWF Img Dutch doctor, physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1924) (Jewish paternal grandfather) 1860-1927
Thomas Eisner RWF Img German-born American ecologist, entomologist, evolutionary biologist, (Jewish father) 1997 1929-2011
Gertrude Elion RWF HW Img American biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel Price (1988), zovirax, 1995 1918-99
Paul Erdos RWF HW Img Hungarian-born Israeli American mathematician, 1989 1913-96
Georg Adolf Erman RWF Img German-born physicist, traveler, (Jewish mother) 1874 1806-77
Stanley Falkow RWF Img American microbiologist, immunologist, 2007 1934-
Ugo Fano RWF Img Italian-born American physicist, 1995 1912-2001
Tom Fenchel RW5 Img Danish marine biologist, 1976 1940-
Richard Feynman RWF HW Img American physicist, 1965 1918-88
Edmond Fischer RWF Img Chinese-born Swiss American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992), (Jewish father) 2010 1920-
Simon Flexner RWC Img American pathologist, bacteriologist, administrator,  1919 1863-1946
James Franck RWF HW Img German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1925) 1964 1882-1964
Wendy Freedman Img Canadian-born American astronomer, 2023 1957-
Daan Frenkel RWF Img Dutch computational physicist, 2006 1948-
Sigmund Freud RWF HW Img Czech-born Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, 1936 1856-1939
Herbert Freundlich RWC Img German chemist, (Jewish paternal grandfather) 1939 1880-1941
Jeffrey Friedman RWF Img American molecular geneticist, leptin, 2018 1954-
Karl von Frisch RWF HW Img Austrian ethologist, (1973), Nobel Prize (1973) (Jewish maternal grandmother) 1973 1886-1982
Elaine Fuchs RWF Img American cell biologist, 2019 1950-
Israel Gelfand RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Russian-American mathematician, 1977 1913-2009
Murray Gell-Mann RWF HW Img American physicist, Nobel Prize (1969), quarks 1978 1929-
Walter Gilbert RWF HW Img American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980) in chemistry, 1987 1932-
Henry Gilman RWF Img American organic chemist, 1975 1893-1986
Vitaly Ginzburg RWF HW Img Russian physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize (2003),  1987 1916-2009
Roy Glauber RWF HW Img American physicist, quantum theory of optical conhearance, Nobel Prize (2005), 1997 1932-
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch RWC Img German-born American geneticist, co-founder of developmental genetics, 1995 1907-2007
Victor Goldschmidt RWF Img Swiss-born Norwegian mineralogist, geochemist, art collector, 1943 1888-1947
Joseph Goldstein RWF HW Img American biologist, geneticist, Nobel Prize (1985) in Medicine, 1991 1940-
Shafrira Goldwasser RWF HW Img American-born Israeli computer scientist, cryptographist, 2023 1958-
Michael Goodchild RWB Img British American  geographer, ??? 2010 1944-
Mikhael Gromov RWF Img Russian-born French American mathematician, differential geometry, (Jewish mother) 2011 1943-
Jacques Hadamard RWF HW Img French mathematician, functional analysis, 1932 1865-1963
Erwin Hahn RWF Img American physicist, nuclear spin echoes NMR 2000 1921- ExLink
David Harel RWC HW Img British-born Israeli computer scientist, 2020 1950-
Stephen Harrison RWF Img American biophysicist, 2014 1943-
Rudolf Heidenhain RWF Img German physiologist, histologist, 1834-97
Michael Heidelberger RWC Img American scientist, immunochemistry 1975 1888-1991
Ludimar Hermann RWF Img German physiologist, speach scientist, 1838-1914
Jakob Henle RWF Img German anatomist, pathologist, 1873 1809-85
Ludimar Hermann RWF Img German physiologist, speach scientist, 1905 1838-1914
George de Hevesy RWF HW Img Hungarian-born Swedish chemist Nobel Prize (1943), 1939 1885-1966
Roald Hoffmann RWF HW Img Polish-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1981) electronic structures, 1984 1937-
Robert Horvitz RWF HW Img American biologist, Nobel Prize (2002), 2009 1947-
Francois Jacob RWF HW Img French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965), 1973 1920-2013
Carl Jacobi RWF HW Img German mathematician, elliptic functons, 1833 1804-51
Eric Kandel RWF HW Img Austrian-born American psyhiatrist, neuroscientist, biophysicist, Nobel Prize (2000), 2013 1929-
Theodore von Karman RWF HW Img Hungarian-born German American physicist, engineer, 1946 1881-1963
Martin Karplus RWF HW Img Austrian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (2013) 2000 1930- ExLink
Ephraim Katzir RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Israeli biophysicist, fourth President of Israel, 1977 1916-2009
Joseph Keller RWF Img American mathematician, 1986 1923-2016
Isaak Khalatnikov RWF Img Ukrainian-born Russian physicist, 1994 1919-
Marc Kirschner RW5 Img American cell biologist, 1999 1945-
Walter Kohn RWF HW Img Austrian-born Canadian American physicist, Nobel Prize (1998) in chemistry 1998 1923-
Arthur Kornberg RWF HW Img American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1959) in medicine, 1970 1918-2007
Roger Kornberg RWF HW Img American biochemist, Nobel Prize (2006), 2009 1947-
Hugo Kronecker RWF Img German physiologist, 1909 1839-1914
Leopold Kronecker RWF HW Img German mathematician, 1884 1823-91
Martin Kruskal RWF Img American mathematician, physicist, 1997 1925-2006
Stephen Kuffler RWF Img Hungarian-born American neuroscientist, 1971 1913-80
Edwin Land RWF Img American inventor, polaroid camera, 1986 1909-91
Lev Landau RWF HW Img Azerbaijani-born Ukrainian Russian theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1962), 1960 1908-68
Karl Landsteiner RWF HW Img Austrian-born American bacteriologist, immunologist, Nobel Prize (1930) in medicine, 1941 1868-1943
Joshua Lederberg RWF HW Img American molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1958), 1979 1925-2008
Solomon Lefschetz RWF Img Russian-born American mathematician topology, 1961 1884-1972
Inge Lehmann RWF Img Danish seismologist, (Jewish father) 1969 1888-1993
Tullio Levi-Civita RWF Img Italian physicist, mathematician,    1930 1873-1941
Rita Levi-Montalcini RWF HW Img Italian-born American scientist, Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine, 1995 1909-2012
Elliott Lieb RWF Img American mathematical physicist, 2013 1932-
Evgeny Lifshitz RWF Img Ukrainian-born Russian physicist, astronomer, 1982 1915-85
Fritz Lipmann RWF HW Img German-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1962),  1962 1899-1986
Gabriel Lippmann RWF HW Img Luxembourgian-born French physicist, Nobel Ptize (1908) 1896 1845-1921
Otto Loewi RWF HW Img German-born Austrian American biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936), 1954 1873-1961
George Lusztig RWF HW Img Romanian-born American mathematician, 1983 1946-
Andre Lwoff RWF HW Img French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965), 1958 1902-94
Heinrich Magnus RWF Img German chemist, physicist,    1802-70
Michael Mann RWF Img American climatologist, geophysicist, Nobel Prize (2007) 2024 1965-
Rudolph Marcus RWF HW Img Canadian-born American chemist, Nobel Prize (1992), 1987 1923-
Gail Martin RW5 Img American developmental biologist, 2015 1944-
Ilya Mechnikov RWF HW Img Ukrainian-born Russian French microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1908), (Jewish mother) 1895 1845-1916
Lise Meitner RWF HW Img Austrian German Swedish physicist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission, 1955 1878-1968
Matthew Meselson RWF Img American geneticist, molecular biologist, 1984 1930-
Otto Meyerhof RWF HW Img German-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize (1922) in medicine, 1937 1884-1951
Elliot Meyerowitz RWF Img American plant biologist, 2004 1951-
Albert Michelson RWF HW Img Polish-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1907), optical precision instruments 1902 1852-1931
David Milstein RWC HW Img German-born Israeli chemist, 2019 1947-
Henri Moissan RWF HW Img French chemist, Nobel Prize (1906), artificle diamond, (Jewish mother), 1905 1852-1907
Anthony Movshon Img American neuroscientist, (Jewish father) 2024 1950-
Hermann Muller RWF HW Img American geneticist, Nobel Prize (1946), (Jewish mother) 1953 1890-1967
Walter Munk RWF Img Austrian-born American geophysicist, 1976 1917-
George Olah RWF HW Img Hungarian-born American chemist Nobel Prize (1994), 1997 1927-
Robert Oppenheimer RWF HW Img American physicist, administrator, atomic bomb, 1962 1904-67
Jeremiah Ostriker RWF Img American astrophysicist, 2007 1937-
Wolfgang Pauli RWF Img Austrian-born American Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize (1945), (not Jewish maternal grandmother) 1953 1953 1900-58
Alexander Pines RW5 HW Img Israeli-born American chemist, MRI NMR 2002 1945-
Frank Press RWF Img American geophysicist,  1985 1924-
Stanley Prusiner RWF HW Img American neurologist, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1997), 1997 1942-
Jeremy Quastel RW5 Img Canadian mathematician, 2021 1963-
Michael Rabin RWF HW Img German/Polish-born Israeli American mathematician, nondermenistic algorithm, 1931-
Benton Rabinovitch RWF Img American chemist, 1987 1919-2014
Tadeus Reichstein RWF HW Img Polish-born Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize (1950) in medicine, 1952 1897-1996
Aviv Regev RW5 Img Israeli-born American computational biologist, 2024 1971-
Werner Rogosinski RWC Img German-born British mathematician, 1954 1894-1964
Walter Rosenhain RW5 Img German-born Australian metallurgist, 1913 1875-1934
Matthew Rosseinsky RWB Img British chemist, ???
Michael Rossmann RWF Img German-born British American microbiologist, crystallographer, (Jewish mother) 1996 1930-
James Rothman RWF HW Img American biochemist, biophysicist, research administrator, Nobel Prize (2013) in medicine, 2019 1950-
Gerald Rubin RW5 Img American geneticist, 2007 1950-
Julius von Sachs RWF Img German botanist, founder of experemental plant physiology,    1888 1832-97
Edwin Salpeter RWF Img Austrian-born Australian American astronomer 1993 1924-2008
Antonio Sanchez RWC Img Portuguese-born Dutch Russian, physician , 1699-1782
Allan Sandage RWF Img American astronomer, (convert to Christianity) 2001 1926-2010
Sara Seager RWF Img Canadian-born American astronomer,   1971-
Carla Shatz RWF Img American neuroscientist, 2011 1947-
Randy Schekman RWF HW Img American cell biologist, geneticist, biochemist, Nobel Prize (2013) in medicine, 2013 1948-
Karl Schwarzschild RWF HW Img German physicist, astronomer,  1909 1873-1916
Martin Schwarzschild RWF Img German-born American astronomer, (Jewish father) 1996 1912-97
Adi Shamir RWF HW Img Israeli cryptographer, 2018 1952-
Yakov Sinai RWF HW Img Russian-born American mathematician, 2009 1935-
Susan Solomon RWF HW Img American geophysicist,  2008 1956-
Tracy Sonneborn RWF Img American biologist, microbiologist, protistologist, 1964 1905-81
Jonathan Sprent RWB Img Australian immunologist, ??? 1998
Joseph Stiglitz RWF HW Img American economist, Nobel Prize (2001) 2009 1943-
Howard Stone Img Americabn mechanical aerospace engineer, 2022 1960-
Edward Stolper RWF Img American geologist, 2011 1952-
Gilbert Stork RWF Img Belgian-born American organic chemist, 1999 1921- ExLink
Eduard Suess RWF Img British-born Austrian geologist, paleontologist, (Jewish mother) 1831-1914
Clifford Tabin RW5 Img American geneticist, 2014 1954-
Valentine Telegdi RWF Img Hungarian-born Swiss American physicist, 2003 1922-2006
Howard Temin RWF HW Img American geneticist, Nobel Prize (1975) in medicine, retroviruses 1988 1934-94
Ronald Vale RW5 Img American biochemist, 2023 1959-
Moshe Vardi RWF HW Img Israeli American computer scientist, 2023 1954-
Harold Varmus RWF Img American microbiologist, virologist, Nobel Prize (1989) in Medicine, 2005 1939-
Sir Vito Volterra RWF HW Img Italian-born mathematician, physicist, mathematical biology, 1910 1860-1940
Otto Heinrich Warburg RWF HW Img German physiologist, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1931) in medicine, (Jewish father) 1934 1883-1970
Arieh Warshel RWF HW Img Israeli-born American biochemist, biophysicist, Nobel Prize (2013) in chemistry, 1940-
Andre Weil RWF HW Img French American mathematician group theory, algebraic geometry, 1966 1906-98
Steven Weinberg RWF HW Img American physicist, Nobel prize (1979), electroweak force, 1981 1933-
Charles Weissmann RWC Img Hungarian-born Swiss British molecular biologist, 1983 1931- ExLink
Wendelin Werner RWF Img German-born French mathematician, Fields Medal (2006), 2020 1968-
Gerald Wertheimer Img German-born Australian neuroscientist, optometrist, 1984 1924-
Susan Wessler RWC Img American plant molecular biologist, geneticist, 2017 1953-
Frank Westheimer RWF Img American chemist, photosynthesis, 1983 1912-2007 ExLink
Eugene Wigner RWF HW Img Hungarian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize (1963), Founder of Nuclear Engineering 1970 1902-95
Richard Willstatter RWF HW Img German-born Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize (1915), 1928 1872-1942
Edward Witten RWF HW Img American mathematician, physicist, Fields Medal (1990), 1999 1951-
Carl Wunsch RWB Img American oceonographist, 2002 1941-
Eli Yablonovitch RWF Img American physicist, 2013 1946-
Charles Yanofsky RWF Img American geneticist,  1985 1925-
Ada Yonath RWF HW Img Israeli cristallographer, structural biologist, Nobel Prize (2009) in chemistry, 2020 1939-
Richard Zare RWF Img American physicist, lazer chemistry, 1999 1939- ExLink
Yakov Zeldovich RWF HW Img Belarusian-born Russian physicist, astronomer, 1979 1914-87
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