Bob Weintraub,

bobweintraub@gmail.com


 Articles about Prominent Jewish Chemists.  

LINKS TO ARTICLES: Chemistry in Israel and The Israel Chemist and Engineer. 


Eugene Rabinowitz (1898-1973): A voice of conscience for the atomic age.  

Ceasar Milstein and monoclonal antibodies  (see page 24)


Sidney Loeb and pressure retarded osmosis  (see page 18)

Sidney Loeb, Co-Inventor of the Reverse Osmosis Membrane

Baruch Blumberg (1925-2011) and the  discovery  of the Hepatitus  B virus, diagnostic methods for detection, and vaccine 

Jonas Salk (1914-1995) and the first vaccine against polio. 

Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (1874-1955)  and the first potato plant with "genuine resistance" to late blight.

Francis Simon (1893-1956): The third law of thermodynamics and the separation of uranium isotopes by gaseous diffusion.

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) Reaction kinetics and personal knowledge. (together with U. Deichmann)

Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) Vitamin C, The Hormones of the Adrenal Cortex, Ferns and Insects.

Three Chemists who found refuge in Turkey (together with G. Boner)   

Gertrude B.Elion and the Design of Selective Chemotherapeutic Agents

Charles Dreyfus, Yellow dyes and the Balfour Declaration

Five Chemists Whose Lives Were Saved by Raoul Wallenberg

Primo Levi (1919-1987)

Erwin Chargaff 

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Protactinium, Fission, Meitnerium 

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888-1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry and of Crystal Chemistry

Pincus, Djerassi and Oral Contraceptives

George de Hevesy (1885 - 1966) Hafnium and Radioactive Tracers

Paul Ehrlich (1854 1915) and the Hebrew University

Moshe Novomeysky (1873 - 1961) Founder of the Dead Sea Industries

Royal Dutch Shell Group and Sir Robert Waley Cohen (1877 - 1952)

Ludwig Mond: Great Chemist-Industrialist, Alfred Mond (Lord Melchett):  Great Zionist Leader:

Ernst Boris Chain and Penicillin

Ernst David Bergmann(1903 - 1975) 

Aaron Klug and Structural Molecular Biology

The "Tin Disease" and Ernst Julius Cohen

Fritz Feigl and Spot Tests

The London Marathon, the University of Greenwich, and Arthur I. Vogel



Items from other sources:

The Penicillin Tourist in the West of Ireland (together with E. Weintraub) 

Medline Search Requests for Physicians Relating to their own Health or to the Health of Members of their Family.

Joseph Goldberger and Pellagra.  Abstract of talk.  



Thermodynamics Properties of the Solid Solutions of KI-KBr and of NH4I-KI. 

PhD Thesis. Robert Weintraub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974;  Department of Chemistry.


Bibliography of Biographies and Autobiographies of Jewish Chemists, Biochemists, and of those in related fields.