Prix Wolf de physique
Lauréats juifs du Prix Wolf de physique répertoriés dans l'annuaire ThankJews. Les Juifs représentent environ 40 % de l'ensemble des lauréats — alors qu'ils constituent à peu près 0,2 % de la population mondiale.
28 lauréats répertoriés
Michael Fisher1931
Chemical physicist connu pour statistical mechanics of critical phenomena
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Leo Kadanoff1937
Physicien; block-spin scaling and the renormalization group
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Victor Weisskopf1908
Physicien; quantum electrodynamics and nuclear physics, director-general of CERN
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leon Lederman1922
Physicien; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Martin Perl1927
Physicien; discovered the tau lepton, Nobel Prize 1995
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Erwin Hahn1921
Physicien qui a découvert the spin echo in nuclear magnetic resonance
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Peter Hirsch1925
Metallurgist, pioneer of electron microscopy of dislocations in metals
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Theodore Maiman1927
Physicien; built the first working laser
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Mitchell Feigenbaum1944
Physicien; chaos theory and the universal Feigenbaum constants
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Albert Libchaber1934
Physicien; experimental confirmation of the route to chaos
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Herbert Friedman1916
Pioneer of space-based solar and X-ray astronomy using rocket-borne instruments
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Bruno Rossi1905
Physicien; cosmic-ray physics and founding of X-ray astronomy
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Maurice Goldhaber1911
Physicien; showed the neutron is a distinct particle, measured neutrino helicity
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Valentine Telegdi1922
Physicien; parity violation and precision particle experiments
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Benoit Mandelbrot1924
Mathématicien qui a fondé fractal geometry, widely applied to natural and Earth science patterns
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science
Vitaly Ginzburg1916
Physicien; Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, Nobel Prize 2003
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Yakir Aharonov1932
Physicien; co-discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Michael Berry1941
Physicien; discovered the geometric (Berry) phase in quantum mechanics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Dan Shechtman2011
Quasicrystals
Source : Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011
Bertrand Halperin1941
Physicien; condensed matter theory and the quantum Hall effect
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Brout1928
Physicien; co-discovered the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Daniel Kleppner1932
Physicien; atomic clocks and Rydberg atoms
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jacob Bekenstein1947
Physicien; black hole entropy and thermodynamics
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Kirshner2015
Astronome of supernova cosmology; Wolf Prize (2015)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Yosef Imry2016
Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Wolf Prize (2016)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Rafi Bistritzer2020
Israeli physicist who predicted magic-angle graphene superconductivity; Wolf Prize (2020)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
James Eisenstein2025
Physicien of the quantum Hall regime; Wolf Prize (2025)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics
Mordehai Heiblum2025
Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Wolf Prize (2025)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics