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This is a list of Jews who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society of London.
Fellows
- Samson Abramsky, computer scientist 2004
- Ephraim Anderson, microbiologist 1968
- J. D. Bernal, physicist (Jewish father) 1937
- Sir Michael Berry, mathematical physicist 1982
- Abram Besicovitch, mathematician 1934
- David Bohm, physicist, philosopher 1990
- Sir Hermann Bondi, cosmologist 1959
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, pharmacist and embryologist 1972
- Max Born, physicist, Nobel Prize (1954)
- Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize (2002), 1965
- Edith Bulbring
- Sir Arnold Burgen, 1964
- Sir Ernst Chain, Nobel Prize (1965), 1949
- Sir Philip Cohen, 1978
- Sydney Cohen, 1990
- Emanuel Mendes da Costa
- Moses da Costa
- Samuel Devons, 1955
- Benjamin Disraeli, politician 1876
- Cyril Domb, 1977
- Jack David Dunitz, 1974
- Raymond Dwek, 1998
- Sir Michael Epstein, pathologist virologist 1979 (Vice-President, 1986-91)
- Arthur Erdelyi, 1975
- Sir Alan Fersht, protein folding 1983
- Michael Fisher, 1971
- Albrecht Frohlich
- Herbert Frohlich, 1951
- Dennis Gabor, physicist Nobel Prize (1971) 1952
- Ian Glynn, 1970
- Thomas Gold, physicist astronomer 1964 (Jewish father)
- Sir Isaak Goldsmid, first Jewish baronet 1828
- Jeffrey Goldstone, 1977
- Benjamin Gompertz, actuary mathematician 1828
- Ian Grant
- Michael Green, string theorist 1989
- Jack Halpern, 1974
- Sir Henry Harris, medicine 1968
- Sir Ian Heilbron, chemist 1931
- Hans Heilbronn, mathematician 1951
- Walter Heitler, physicist quantum chemistry 1948
- Sir John Herschel, astronomer 1813 (son of Sir [[William Herschel; some Jewish ancestry)
- Sir William Herschel, astronomer 1781 (some Jewish ancestry)
- Sir Peter Hirsch, material science 1963
- Sir Gabriel Horn, 1986
- Herbert Huppert, 1987
- Alick Isaacs, virologist,inteferon 1966
- David Ish-Horowicz, 2002
- Sir George Jessel solicitor general 1871-73 1880
- Brian Josephson, physicist Nobel Prize (1943) 1970
- George Kalmus, 1988
- Sir Bernard Katz, medicine Nobel Prize (1970) 1952
- David Keilin, 1928
- Andrew Keller
- Olga Kennard, crystallographer 1987
- Sir Aaron Klug, chemist Nobel Prize (1982) 1969 (President of RS 1995-2000)
- Sir Hans Kornberg, 1965
- Hans Kosterlitz, medicine, endorphins 1978
- Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
- Sir John Krebs, biologist 1984 (Jewish father Sir Hans Krebs)
- Harold Kroto, chemist Nobel Prize (1996) (Jewish father) 1990
- Nicholas Kurti, physicist Vice-President of RS 1965-67 1956
- Michael Levitt, biophysicist, computational biology 2001
- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, 1920
- George Lusztig, 1983
- Kurt Mahler, mathematician 1948
- Joel Mandelstam
- Stanley Mandelstam, theoretical physicist 1962
- Raphael Meldola, chemist 1886
- Kurt Mendelssohn, German-born British medical physicist cryogenic engineering 19
- Leon Mestel, astronomer 1977
- Samuel Milner, 1922
- César Milstein, medicine, Nobel Prize (1984) 1975
- Alfred Mond, chemist 1928
- Ludwig Mond, chemist 1891
- Sir Moses Montefiore, 1836
- Louis Mordell, 1924
- Walter Munk, geophysicist 1976
- F.R. Nunes Nabarro, British-South African physicist 1971
- Bernard Neumann, 1959
- Maxwell Newman, 1939 (Jewish father)
- Sir Gustav Nossal, biologist 1982 (Jewish father)
- Leslie Orgel, 1962
- Egon Orowan, Hungarian-born British U.S. physicist 1947
- Friedrich Paneth, chemist 1947
- Rudolf Peierls, physicist 1945
- Michael Pepper, physicist 1983
- Max Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize (1962) 1954
- Gordon Plotkin, 1992
- John Polonyi, chemist, Nobel Prize (1986) 1971 (Jewish father)
- Michael Polanyi, chemist and philosopher 1944
- Guido Pontecorvo, 1955
- Sir Karl Popper, philosopher of science 1976
- Juda Quastel, biochemist 1940
- Richard Rado, combinatorics, graph theory 1978
- Ralph Raphael, 1962
- Ivan Roitt, immunologist 1983
- Michael Rossmann, 1986 (Jewish mother)
- Joseph Rotblat, founder of Pugwash conference, Nobel Prize for Peace (1995)
- Martin Roth, 1911
- Lionel Rothschild, 1911
- Miriam Rothschild, entomologist, zoologist 1985
- Nataniel Rothschild 1953
- Leo Sachs, 1997
- Peter Sarnak, 2002
- Anthony Segal, 1998
- Isaac de Sequeira Samuda (believed to be the first Jewish FRS; elected 1727)
- Arthur Schuster, 1879
- Louis Siminovich, 1991
- Sir Francis Simon, 1941
- Franz Sondheimer, organic chemist 1967
- David Spiegelhalter, statistician, 2005
- James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician 1839
- Michael Szwarc, polymer chemistry 1966
- David Tabor, 1963
- Leslie Valiant, computer scientist, parallel computation 1991
- Sir John Vane, medicine, Nobel Prize (1982) 1974
- Felix Weinberg, 1983
- Lawrence Weiskrantz, 1980
- Nathaniel Wolf, 1777
- Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1963
- Lord Leonard Wolfson (honorary FRS 2005)
- Lewis Wolpert, embryologist 1980
- Michael Woolfson, crystallographer, computer simulation 1984
- Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright
- Alec David Young, aero-engineer 1973
- John Ziman, 1967
- Lord Solly Zuckerman, anatomist, evolutionist 1943
Foreign Members
- Anatole Abragam, French physicist, father of NMR 1983
- Alexei Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) 2001 (Jewish mother)
- Vladimir Arnold, Ukrainian-U.S. mathematician 1988 (Jewish mother)
- Julius Axelrod, biochemist, pharmocologist Nobel Prize (1970) 1979
- David Baltimore, U.S. biologist, retroviruses, Nobel Prize (1975) 1987
- Grigory Barenblatt, Russian-U.S. mathematician 2000
- Seymour Benzer, U.S. biophysicist, genetics 1976
- Paul Berg, chemist, Head of Human Genome Project, Nobel Prize (1980) 1992
- Hans Bethe, German-U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) 1957 (Jewish mother)
- Raoul Bott, Hungarian-born U.S. 2005 (Jewish mother)
- Konrad Bloch, German biochemist, Nobel Prize (1964) 1985
- Ronald Breslow, U.S. 2000
- Michael Brown, U.S. medicine Nobel Prize (1985) 1991
- Melvin Calvin, U.S. photosynthesis, Nobel Prize (1961) 1959
- Ernst Cohen, Netherlands chemist, 1926
- Ferdinand Cohn, German botanist, founder of the science of bacteriology, 1897
- Albert Einstein, German-U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) 1921
- William Einthoven, Netherlands scientist, Nobel Prize (1924) 1926 (Jewish paternal grandfather)
- Thomas Eisner, evolutionary biology, 1997
- Paul Ehrlich, immunology, haematology Nobel Prize (1908} 1910
- Gertrude Elion, medicine, Nobel Prize (1988) 1995
- Paul Erdos, Hungarian-born Israeli U.S. mathematician 1989
- Ugo Fano, Hungarian-born U.S. physicist, 1995
- William Feller, Croatian-born U.S. mathematician probability theory
- James Franck, German-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1925) 1964
- Sigmund Freud, Psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis 1936
- Otto Frisch, Austrian-born British physicist 1948
- Herbert Gasser, medicine Nobel Prize (1944) 1946 (Jewish father)
- Israil Gelfand, Ukrainian-born Russian-American mathematician 1977
- Murray Gell-Mann, U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1969) 1978
- Walter Gilbert, U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1980) 1987
- Henry Gilman, U.S. organometallic chemist 1975
- Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) 1987
- Roy Glauber, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005) 1997
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, German-born U.S. geneticist, co-founder of developmental genetics 1995
- Peter Goldreich, U.S. astrophysicist 1904
- Victor Goldschmidt, Swedian-born U.S. chemist, founder of modern geochemistry 1943
- Joseph Goldstein, U.S. biologist Nobel Prize (1985) 1991
- Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician, functional analysis 1932
- George de Hevesy, Hungarian-born Swedish chemist Nobel Prize (1943) 1939
- Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1981) electronic structures 1984
- Erwin Hahn, U.S. physicist, nuclear spin echoes NMR 2000
- Werner Israel, German-born Canadian physicist and cosmologist 1986
- Francois Jacob, French biologist Nobel Prize (1965) 1973
- Karl Jacobi, German mathematician 1833
- Theodore von Karman, Hungarian-born U.S. aeronautical engineer 1946
- Martin Karplus, Austrian-born U.S. chemist 2000
- Ephraim Katzir, Ukrainian-born Israeli chemist, fourth President of Israel 1977
- Joseph Keller, U.S. mathematician 1986
- Isaac Khalatnikov, Russian physicist 1994
- Marc Kirschner, U.S. cell biologist 1999
- Walter Kohn, Austrian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1998) 1998
- Arthur Kornberg, U.S. chemist Nobel Prize for Medicine (1959) 1970
- Hugo Kronecker, German-born U.S. psyciologist 1909
- Leopold Kronecker, Polian-born German mathematician 1884
- Martin Kruskal, U.S. physicist 1997
- Edwin Land, U.S. inventor 1986
- Lev Landau, Azebarjan-born Russian physicist Nobel Prize (1962) 1960
- Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born U.S. biologist Nobel Prize (1930) 1941
- Joshua Lederberg, U.S. scientist medicine Nobel Prize (1958) 1979
- Solomon Lefschetz, Russian-born U.S. mathematician topology 1961
- Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician 1930
- Rita Levi-Montalchini, Italian-born U.S. scienist Nobel Prize (1986) in medicine 1995
- Evgeny Lifshitz, Russian physicist astronomer 1982
- Fritz Lipmann, German-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1962) 1962 RS62
- Gabriel Lippmann, Luxemburg-born French phusicist Nobel Prize (1908) 1896
- Otto Loewi, German-born U.S. biochemist and farmacologist Nobel Prize (1936) 1954
- Andre Lwoff, French scientist Nobel Prize (1965) 1958
- Rudolph Marcus, Canadian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1992) 1987
- Lise Meitner, Austrian-born Swedish physicist nuclear fission 1955
- Matthew Meselson, U.S. molecular biologist 1984
- Elie Mechnikov, Ukrainian-born Russian French scientist Nobel Prize (1908) in medicine 1895 (Jewish mother)
- Otto Meyerhof, German-born U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1922) 1937
- Elliot Meyerowitz, U.S. biologist plants 2004
- Albert Michelson, Polish-born U.S. physicist Nobel Prize (1907) 1902
- Henri Moissan, French chemist artifical diamond Nobel Prize (1906) 1905 (Jewish mother)
- Walter Munk, Austrian-born U.S. geophysicist 1976
- George Olah, Hungarian-born U.S. chemist Nobel Prize (1994) 1997
- Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born U.S. Swedish physicist Nobel Prize (1945) 1953 (not Jewish maternal grandparent)
- Alexander Pines, chemist MRI NMR 2002
- Vladimir Prelog, Yugoslavian-born switzerland chemist 1962
- Frank Press, U.S. geophysicist President of NAS 1985
- Stanley Prusiner, U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1997) medicine 1997
- Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born Switzerland chemist Nobel Prize (1950) in medicine 1952
- Julius von Sachs, German founder of experemental plant physiology 1888
- Edwin Salpeter, Austrian-born Australian U.S. astronomer 1993
- Martin Schwarzschild, German-born U.S. astronomer 1996
- Gilbert Stork, Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist 1999
- Valentine Telegdi, Hungarian-born Switzerland U.S. physicist 2003
- Howard Temin, U.S. scientist retroviruses Nobel Prize (1975) 1988
- Harod Varmus, U.S. scientist Nobel Prize (1989) in medicine 2005
- Otto Warburg, German chemist Nobel Prize (1931) in medicine 1934
- Andre Weil, French U.S. mathematician group theory Algebric geometry 1966
- Steven Weinberg, U.S. physicist electroweak force Nobel Prize (1979) 1981
- Charles Weissmann, Hungarian-born Switzerland British molecular biologist 1983
- Frank Westheimer, U.S. chemist 1983
- Edward Witten, U.S. mathematician and physicist Fields Medal (1990) 1999
- Charles Yanofsky, U.S. scientist medicine 1985
- Richard Zare, U.S. physicist Lazer chemistry 1999
- Yakov Zeldovich, Belarussian-born Russian physicist astronomer 1979