Ed note: The recently released, blockbuster motion picture Oppenheimer — starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan — has been called a cinematic “masterpiece” and is considered a top Academy Award contender. We urge you to see it. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was a theoretical physicist and…
Economist Douglas Diamond, 69, is the Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 1979. Diamond specializes in the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. He is a former president of the American Finance Association (2003) and the Western…
Dr. David Julius is known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat…
Robert S. Langer, Jr. is a chemical engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and…
Gould’s most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.
In 2004, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society…
Professor Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and…
If complex alien lifeforms do exist on other planets, what might they look like? How much would they resemble us? How would they function, communicate, and reproduce? Those and other intriguing questions about possible extraterrestrial life have long interested Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, an Israeli-educated zoologist who lives in the U.K. and teaches at Cambridge University.…
He has been a trailblazer in the development of immunotherapy, which has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies and the development of gene therapy.
Lander will also serve as Biden’s science adviser and — a first — will be in the president’s Cabinet.
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed