Curated playlist
Jewish American physicists
- Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein once spent his days examining patents for gravel sorters.
- J. Robert OppenheimerJ. Robert Oppenheimer gripped a post to steady himself as the first nuclear bomb went off.
- Nathan RosenNathan Rosen co-authored the first known wormhole paper in July 1935. He was Albert Einstein's assistant at the time.
- John von NeumannJohn von Neumann's father asked Theodore von Kármán to talk his son out of mathematics.
- Edward TellerEdward Teller stood and watched the Trinity test while nearly everyone else lay face-down.
- Eugene WignerPhysicist Eugene Wigner found that neutron radiation could make the graphite in a reactor swell.
- Bruria KaufmanBruria Kaufman spent five years working alongside Albert Einstein in Princeton. She co-wrote two articles with him.
- Avi LoebIn 2024, Avi Loeb stood before an audience and declared his view that the Messiah will be an alien arriving from outer space. Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist whose formal name is Abraham Loeb. He was born on the 26th of…
- Peter BergmannPeter Bergmann's mother wrote to Einstein in 1933 asking him to take her son as a student.
- Otto SternOtto Stern and Walther Gerlach fired silver atoms through a magnetic field in 1922. The atoms landed in two bands.