Tilly Edinger
Prominent Jewish German-American paleontologist.
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Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Pioneering geneticist renowned for her contributions to the field of developmental genetics.
Sulamith Goldhaber
High-energy physicist and molecular spectroscopist; a world expert on the interactions of K+ mesons with nucleons and made numerous discoveries relating to them.
Tatiana Markus
When Kyiv fell under German occupation in 1941, Markus joined the underground resistance. She carried out sabotage missions, often disguised as innocent gestures, like throwing a grenade hidden as a bouquet. Using a false identity as “Marcousisse,” she worked at an officer’s dining facility, poisoning SS officers’ meals and eliminating a valuable Gestapo informant.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Jewish-American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist known as the “Queen of Carbon Science.”
Dr Myriam Sarachik
Belgian-born American experimental physicist renowned for her contributions to low-temperature solid-state physics. She served as a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York from 1996.
Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.
Marianne Joachim
Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi era, actively involved with the “Prenzlauer Berg Antifascist Group” (Antifaschistischen Gruppe im Prenzlauer Berg Berlin / AGiP).
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Jewish-American zoologist known for her pioneering work in evolutionary theory and contributions to zoology.