List of Polish Jews

List of Polish Jews:

Academics

Math & Computer scientists

• Herman Auerbach, mathematician (Jewish father)
• Paul Baran, engineer: packet switching
• Salomon Bochner, mathematician
• Jacob Bronowski, scientist & broadcaster, works: algebraic geometry
• Samuel Eilenberg, mathematician: category theory
• Witold Hurewicz, mathematician (Jewish father)
• Mark Kac, mathematician
• Abraham Lempel, computer scientist: LZW compression
• Adolf Lindenbaum, logician
• Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician: fractals
• Szolem Mandelbrojt, mathematician
• Emil Leon Post, mathematician
• Mojzesz Presburger, logician
• Stanislaw Saks, mathematician
• Juliusz Schauder, mathematician
• Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician

Natural scientists

• Georges Charpak, physicist, Nobel prize (1992) (Jewish father)
• Kasimir Fajans, physicist
• Casimir Funk, biochemist: vitamins (unconfirmed)
• Roald Hoffmann, chemist and writer, Nobel prize (1981)
• Leopold Infeld, physicist
• Jakub Natanson, chemist
• Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel prize (1950)
• Albert Sabin, inventor of the oral Polio vaccine
• Andrew V. Schally, endocrinologist, Nobel prize (1977) (Jewish father)

Social academics

• Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist
• Szymon Aszkenazy, historian
• Salo Wittmayer Baron, Jewish historian
• Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
• Ivan Bloch, military writer
• Isaac Deutscher, historian
• Henryk Grossman, economist
• Joseph Jastrow, psychologist (Jewish father)
• Lewis Namier, historian
• Paul Radin, anthropologist
• Manfred Sakel, neurophysiologist & psychiatrist
• Milton Rokeach, psychologist
• Michel Thomas, language teacher
• Avraham Stern, famous Zionist
• Ludwik Zamenhof, doctor and inventor of Esperanto (Jewish mother)