List of Jewish American physicists

This is a list of notable Jewish American physicists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

• Stephen Brunauer, Hungarian physicist who came to United States to study sciences. Inventor of BET theory and porous Portland cement.
• Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race^[1][2][3])
• Cornelius Lanczos, mathematical physicist^[4]
• Albert A. Michelson, who measured the speed of light,and disproved the existence of the luminous ether.^{[5][circular reference]}
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atomic bomb"
• Carl Sagan, one of the most prominent astrophysicists
• Eric Weinstein (born 1965), mathematical physicist^[6]
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons^[7]

• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences
• List of National Medal of Science winners

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