Dirac Medal (ICTP)
Jewish recipients of the Dirac Medal (ICTP) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 34% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
31 documented recipients
Edward Witten1951
Mathematical physics and string theory; only physicist to win the Fields Medal
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Yakov Zeldovich1914
Physicist; astrophysics, cosmology and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alexander Polyakov1945
Theoretical physicist; major contributions to quantum field theory and string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Bryce DeWitt1923
Physicist; canonical quantum gravity and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Efim Fradkin1924
Theoretical physicist; quantum field theory and quantum gravity
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
David Gross1941
Physicist; discovered asymptotic freedom in QCD, Nobel Prize 2004
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Michael Green1946
Physicist; anomaly cancellation founding the superstring revolution
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
John Schwarz1941
Physicist; co-founder of superstring theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Sidney Coleman1937
Theoretical physicist; quantum field theory and the Coleman-Mandula theorem
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jeffrey Goldstone1933
Physicist; Goldstone's theorem and spontaneous symmetry breaking
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Stanley Mandelstam1928
Physicist; Mandelstam variables and string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Yakov Sinai1935
Dynamical systems and statistical mechanics (Abel Prize)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Daniel Freedman1993
Co-inventor of supergravity; Dirac Medal (1993), Breakthrough Prize (2019)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dirac Medal (ICTP)
Michael Berry1941
Physicist; discovered the geometric (Berry) phase in quantum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Stephen Adler1939
Theoretical physicist; the Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in quantum field theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Paul Steinhardt1952
Physicist; cosmological inflation and quasicrystals
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alan Guth1947
Physicist; proposed cosmic inflation
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Édouard Brézin2011
French theorist of critical phenomena; Dirac Medal (2011)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dirac Medal (ICTP)
Andrew Strominger1955
Physicist; string theory and black hole entropy counting
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Gabriele Veneziano1942
Physicist; the Veneziano amplitude that launched string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Nathan Seiberg1956
Physicist; Seiberg-Witten theory in supersymmetric gauge theories
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Mikhail Shifman1949
Physicist; quantum chromodynamics and QCD sum rules
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Arkady Vainshtein1942
Physicist; quantum chromodynamics and instanton effects
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
David Deutsch1953
Physicist; pioneer of quantum computation and the universal quantum computer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alexei Starobinsky1948
Physicist; pioneer of cosmic inflation theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Saul Teukolsky1947
Physicist; the Teukolsky equation for black hole perturbations
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Igor Klebanov1962
Physicist; gauge/gravity duality in string theory
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Stephen Shenker1953
Physicist; string theory and matrix models
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leonard Susskind1940
Physicist; string theory and the holographic principle
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Gary Horowitz1955
Physicist; general relativity and string theory of black holes
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Wald1947
Physicist; general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics