Pensadores del siglo XX
Galardonados judíos del Pensadores del siglo XX documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 30 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
142 galardonados documentados
Alfred Adler1870
Fundador de individual psychology and the concept of the inferiority complex
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Theodor Adorno1903
Frankfurt School philosopher and social theorist, a founder of critical theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Samuel Alexander1859
Filósofo británico of emergent evolution, autor de 'Space, Time, and Deity'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Hannah Arendt1951
Political Philosophy
Fuente: The Origins of Totalitarianism
Rudolf Arnheim1904
Pionero de the psychology of art and visual perception
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Raymond Aron1905
French political philosopher and sociologist
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Kenneth Arrow1972
Economista who proved the impossibility theorem of social choice and, with Gérard Debreu, the existence of a general equilibrium in a competitive economy; Premio Nobel de Economía 1972
Fuente: Wikipedia — Kenneth Arrow / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1972
Erich Auerbach1892
Autor de Mimesis, the foundational work of comparative literature
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Daniel Bell1919
Sociólogo conocido por 'The Coming of Post-Industrial Society' and 'The End of Ideology'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Julien Benda1867
Filósofo francés, autor de 'La Trahison des clercs'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Walter Benjamin1892
Filósofo and critic whose essays on language and translation remain influential.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Emile Benveniste1966
Structural linguist conocido por major work on Indo-European languages and theory of enunciation
Fuente: Britannica
Bernard Berenson
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Peter Berger1929
Sociólogo of knowledge and religion; co-author of 'The Social Construction of Reality'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Henri Bergson1927
Filósofo francés of duration and creative evolution, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1927 for his rich and vitalizing ideas; refused Vichy's exemption from the anti-Jewish laws and registered as a Jew in…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Henri Bergson / NobelPrize.org Literature 1927
Isaiah Berlin1909
British political philosopher and historian of ideas, conocido por 'Two Concepts of Liberty' and value pluralism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Basil Bernstein1924
Sociolinguist conocido por the theory of elaborated and restricted linguistic codes.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Bruno Bettelheim1903
Child psychologist conocido por work on autism and emotional development
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Max Black1909
Analytic philosopher of language and science
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Ernst Bloch1885
German Marxist philosopher, autor de 'The Principle of Hope'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Marc Bloch
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Leonard Bloomfield1887
Lingüista estadounidense, fundador de structural linguistics and author of the landmark 1933 book 'Language'.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Franz Boas1858
Father of American anthropology; fue pionero de descriptive linguistics of Native American languages.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Niels Bohr1913
Físico who gave the quantum model of the atom in 1913 and led Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics; Premio Nobel de Física 1922
Fuente: Wikipedia — Niels Bohr
Max Born1954
Cofundador de quantum mechanics who gave the statistical interpretation of the wave function; Premio Nobel de Física 1954
Fuente: Wikipedia — Max Born
Jacob Bronowski
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Jerome Bruner1915
Psicólogo cognitivo whose work shaped theories of language acquisition and cognitive development.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Leon Brunschvicg1869
French idealist philosopher
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Martin Buber1878
Jewish philosopher of dialogue, autor de 'I and Thou'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Benjamin Cardozo1870
US Supreme Court Justice and influential common-law jurist; autor de 'The Nature of the Judicial Process'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence
Ernst Cassirer1874
Neo-Kantian philosopher of symbolic forms
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Noam Chomsky1957
Linguistics Theory
Fuente: Transformational grammar
Morris Raphael Cohen1880
Filósofo estadounidense of law and science
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Jacques Derrida1930
Filósofo, fundador de deconstruction and influential theorist of language and meaning.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Emile Durkheim1895
Sociólogo, a founding figure of modern sociology as an academic discipline
Fuente: Britannica
Ronald Dworkin1931
Legal philosopher; desarrolló 'law as integrity' and the principal critique of legal positivism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence
Albert Einstein1905
Físico que fundó special and general relativity and explained the photoelectric effect; Premio Nobel de Física 1921
Fuente: Wikipedia — Albert Einstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Erik Erikson1902
Psicólogo del desarrollo who formulated psychosocial stages and the identity crisis
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Hans Eysenck1916
Personality psychologist conocido por dimensional models of temperament
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Herbert Feigl1902
Vienna Circle philosopher of science, philosophy of mind
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Richard Feynman1948
Físico who helped rebuild quantum electrodynamics and introduced Feynman diagrams; Premio Nobel de Física 1965
Fuente: Wikipedia — Richard Feynman
Stanley Fish1938
Teórico literario of reader-response criticism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Meyer Fortes1906
Social anthropologist conocido por kinship studies of the Tallensi of West Africa
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
Jerome Frank1909
Psiquiatra conocido por comparative research on psychotherapy and persuasion
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Felix Frankfurter1882
US Supreme Court Justice and constitutional scholar; leading advocate of judicial restraint
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence
Anna Freud1895
Fundador de child psychoanalysis and theorist of ego defense mechanisms
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Sigmund Freud1896
Psicoanálisis
Fuente: Founded modern psychology
Milton Friedman1962
Free Market Economics
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1976
Erich Fromm1900
Humanistic psychoanalyst and social philosopher
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Clifford Geertz1926
Fundador de interpretive anthropology and 'thick description', autor de 'The Interpretation of Cultures'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
Murray Gell-Mann1969
Classification of elementary particles and their interactions (quark theory)
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1969
Ernest Gellner1925
Filósofo and social anthropologist, theorist of nationalism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Erving Goffman1922
Sociólogo who studied the interactional organization of talk and everyday conversation.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Kurt Goldstein1878
Neurólogo and founder of the holistic and organismic approach to brain function.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ernst Gombrich1909
Autor de The Story of Art, the world's most-read art history book
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Nelson Goodman1906
Filósofo estadounidense, the 'new riddle of induction' and nominalism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Paul Goodman
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Stephen Jay Gould1941
Paleontólogo and evolutionary biologist who co-developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Oscar Handlin
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
H.L.A. Hart1907
Leading legal philosopher; autor de 'The Concept of Law', foundational to modern legal positivism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Political Philosophy & Science
Abraham Joshua Heschel1907
Jewish theologian and philosopher of religion
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
E. D. Hirsch Jr.1928
Teórico literario; autor de Cultural Literacy
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Richard Hofstadter1916
Two-time Pulitzer-winning historian of American political culture
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Sidney Hook1902
American pragmatist philosopher
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Max Horkheimer1895
Director of the Frankfurt School and co-founder of critical theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Edmund Husserl1900
Filósofo que fundó phenomenology; born into a Jewish family (later converted to Lutheranism)
Fuente: Britannica
Ivan Illich
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
François Jacob1920
Recibió el 1965 Premio Nobel for discovering the operon model of gene regulation.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Roman Jakobson1896
Fundador de structural linguistics and modern phonology; desarrolló distinctive-feature theory.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Hans Kelsen1881
Legal philosopher; desarrolló the 'Pure Theory of Law' and modern legal positivism
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Law & Jurisprudence
Lawrence Klein1980
Economista who built the first large econometric models of national economies, the Wharton models and Project LINK; Premio Nobel de Economía 1980
Fuente: Wikipedia — Lawrence Klein / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1980
Melanie Klein1882
Fundador de object relations theory and child psychoanalysis
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Arthur Koestler1905
Novelista and essayist ('Darkness at Noon')
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
Kurt Koffka1886
Cofundador de Gestalt psychology
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Karl Kraus
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Hans Krebs1953
Discovery of the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle) in cellular metabolism
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1953
Saul Kripke1940
Filósofo and logician conocido por the causal theory of reference and modal logic.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Thomas Kuhn1922
Filósofo of science, autor de 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' and the concept of paradigm shifts
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Simon Kuznets1971
Empirical research on economic growth and the measurement of national income
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Economics 1971
Imre Lakatos1922
Philosophy of mathematics; Proofs and Refutations
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Harold Laski
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Wassily Leontief1905
Economista que creó input-output analysis and compiled the first input-output tables of the American economy; Premio Nobel de Economía 1973
Fuente: Wikipedia — Wassily Leontief / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1973
Claude Lévi-Strauss1955
Fundador de structural anthropology; autor de Tristes Tropiques and The Elementary Structures of Kinship.
Fuente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl1857
Filósofo francés and anthropologist
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Kurt Lewin1890
Fundador de modern social psychology and field theory
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Oscar Lewis1914
Antropólogo que desarrolló the concept of the 'culture of poverty'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Walter Lippmann
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Seymour Martin Lipset1922
Leading political sociologist; autor de 'Political Man'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Gyorgy Lukács1885
Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary theorist
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Alexander Luria1902
Fundador de modern neuropsychology and the study of the brain's functional organization.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Salvador Luria1912
Showed with Max Delbrück that bacteria mutate spontaneously (fluctuation test); cofundó the phage group; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1969 for discoveries on the replication and genetics of…
Fuente: Wikipedia — Salvador Luria
Rosa Luxemburg
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Karl Mannheim1893
Fundador de the sociology of knowledge
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Gabriel Marcel1889
French existentialist philosopher (of Jewish descent)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Herbert Marcuse1898
Frankfurt School philosopher, autor de 'One-Dimensional Man'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Abraham Maslow1908
Fundador de humanistic psychology and the hierarchy of needs
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Robert K. Merton1994
Fundador de the sociology of science; coined 'self-fulfilling prophecy' and 'role model'; Medalla Nacional de Ciencia (1994)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
Hermann Muller1890
Showed in 1927 that X-rays produce gene mutations, founding radiation genetics; Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 1946
Fuente: Wikipedia — Hermann Muller
Lewis Mumford
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Ernest Nagel1901
Filósofo of science, autor de 'The Structure of Science'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Sir Lewis Namier
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
John von Neumann1945
Arquitectura de computadores y teoría de juegos
Fuente: Manhattan Project / Princeton
Otto Neurath1882
Vienna Circle philosopher, advocate of physicalism and unified science
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Emmy Noether1882
Fundadora del álgebra abstracta moderna; Noether's theorem
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
J. Robert Oppenheimer1945
Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos; físico teórico and, afterwards, an advocate of international control of nuclear weapons
Fuente: Wikipedia — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Erwin Panofsky1892
Fundador de modern iconology in art history
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Wolfgang Pauli1945
Físico teórico who formulated the exclusion principle and proposed the neutrino; Premio Nobel de Física 1945
Fuente: Wikipedia — Wolfgang Pauli
Max Perutz1962
Hemoglobin Structure
Fuente: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1962
Karl Polanyi1886
Economic anthropologist and historian, autor de 'The Great Transformation'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
Michael Polanyi1891
Químico físico conocido por reaction rate theory and adsorption
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Karl Popper1902
Filósofo of science, desarrolló falsifiability as the criterion of demarcation; autor de 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Otto Rank1884
Psicoanalista conocido por theories of the birth trauma and will
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
Wilhelm Reich1897
Psicoanalista and social philosopher
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
David Riesman1909
Sociólogo and author of the influential study of American character 'The Lonely Crowd'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Harold Rosenberg
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Marshall Sahlins1930
Antropólogo conocido por 'Stone Age Economics' and 'Islands of History'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
Paul Samuelson1948
Economic Theory
Fuente: Nobel Prize Economics 1970
Edward Sapir1884
Lingüista and anthropologist central to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Meyer Schapiro
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Max Scheler1874
German phenomenologist and founder of philosophical anthropology (of Jewish descent)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Heinrich Schenker
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Arnold Schoenberg1921
Compositor austríaco who pioneered atonality and the twelve-tone technique, a founder of the Second Viennese School and one of the most influential musical modernists.
Fuente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg
Gershom Scholem
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Julian Schwinger1918
Físico; cofundador de quantum electrodynamics (QED), Premio Nobel 1965
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Edward Shils1910
Sociólogo conocido por work on tradition, intellectuals, and the 'center and periphery'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Georg Simmel1858
Sociólogo alemán and philosopher
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Herbert Simon1978
Social scientist of administrative decision-making and bounded rationality, and with Allen Newell a pioneer of artificial intelligence; Premio Nobel de Economía 1978
Fuente: Wikipedia — Herbert A. Simon / NobelPrize.org Economic Sciences 1978
Susan Sontag1933
Escritor estadounidense and public intellectual whose essays on culture and photography shaped criticism.
Fuente: IMDb (Jewish Actors list)
Leo Spitzer1887
Romance philologist and founder of literary stylistics.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
William Stern1871
Psicólogo and philosopher of personalism, originated the concept of IQ
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Leo Strauss1899
Political philosopher and scholar of classical political thought
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Alfred Tarski1901
Foundational logician; theory of truth and decidability.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Lionel Trilling1905
Preeminent American literary critic of the mid-20th century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
Leon Trotsky
Profiled in Thinkers of the 20th Century
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews Profiled in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century
Lev Vygotsky1896
Psicólogo whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
Simone Weil1909
Filósofo francés and mystic
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Max Wertheimer1880
Fundador de Gestalt psychology
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
Norbert Wiener1894
Fundó cybernetics and statistical communication theory.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science
Eugene Wigner1902
Mathematical physicist; brought group theory and symmetry principles into quantum mechanics, theory of the nuclear force; Premio Nobel de Física 1963
Fuente: Wikipedia — Eugene Wigner
Louis Wirth1897
Pionero de urban sociology; autor de 'Urbanism as a Way of Life'
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889
Filósofo of language, autor de the 'Tractatus' and 'Philosophical Investigations'.
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics