List of Jewish American physicists

This is a list of famous Jewish American physicists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Ralph Alpher, background radiation, nucleosynthesis
John Bahcall, astrophysicist
Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1967) (Jewish mother)
Felix Bloch, nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize (1952) (naturalized citizen)
David Bohm, quantum physicist, philosopher of science
Gregory Breit, physicist
Albert Einstein (German) theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize (1921) (naturalized citizen)
Paul Sophus Epstein, theoretical physicist, quantum mechanics
Herman Feshbach, nuclear physicist
Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Nobel Prize (1965) (though he always refused to appear in lists such as this one and other lists or books that classified people by race )
David Finkelstein, physicist
James Franck, physicist, Nobel Prize (1925)
Edward Fredkin, digital physicist
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