List of Jewish inventors
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| Robert Adler | remote control |
| Selig Percy Amoils <ref>Jewish: American Jewish Year Book, 1983, p. 271; online at [1]; inventor: Web site of the President of South Africa: [2]</ref> | ophthalmologist; Cryoprobe |
| Zora Arkus-Duntov | co-designer of Corvette sports car |
| Herman Aron [3] | invented the electric meter |
| Ralph Baer | video games console "Simon" |
| Itzhak Bentov<ref>Review of his book, "The Cosmic Book: On the Mechanics of Creation" Biblio.com booksellers calls him "a Jewish scientist and inventor, who was born in Prague". Accessed 20 Oct 2006</ref> | Remote controlled cardiac catheter (US Patent 3605725 September 1971 Bentov) |
| Lodewyk van Berken<ref>The Diamond Invention. Chapter 11 by Edward Jay Epstein</ref> | 1456: invented scaif, a diamond polishing wheel |
| Emile Berliner | inventor of gramophone |
| Samuel Blum | co-inventor of laser eye surgery LASIK |
| Baruch Blumberg and Irving Millman | vaccine for Hepatitis B |
| Gustav Bucky | radiologist bucky grid x-ray |
| Joel Davidson | 1954: 100% solar powered vehicle = co-inventor |
| Carl Djerassi<ref>[4] "I literally came as a refugee. I came during the Hitler days. Both my parents and I were Jewish so we had to leave."</ref>, Gregory Pincus<ref>[5] "Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America"</ref>, and Frank Colton<ref>[6]</ref> | oral contraceptive, antihistamines |
| Paul Eisler | inventor of printed circuit board |
| Gertrude Elion | anti-leukemia drugs Nobel Prize (1988) in medicine zovirax |
| Sam Fedida | 1971: inventor of Viewdata |
| Joel Engel | co-inventor of cellular technology |
| Joseph Friedman | inventor of flexistraw |
| Dennis Gabor | holography Nobel Prize (1971) in physics |
| Uziel Gal | "Uzi" sub-machine gun |
| Joseph Gerber | phottoplotter phottocatter Gerber variable scale |
| Charles Ginsburg | video tape machine |
| Donald Glaser | bubble chamber Noble Prize (1960) in physics |
| Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes | Kodachrome[7] [8] |
| Emanuel Goldberg | contact camera Zeiss |
| Sylvan Goldman | shopping cart |
| Peter Carl Goldmark | vinyl record |
| Ruth Handler | Barbie doll |
| Waldemar Haffkine | developed vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague and tested them on himself.<ref>Waldemar Haffkine: Pioneer of Cholera vaccine at American Society for Microbiology</ref> |
| Julius Hess | 1922: incubator for premature babies the world's first nursery |
| Basil Hirschowitz | flexible endoscope |
| Gabriel Iddan | video-camera-in-a-capsule (swallowable) |
| Theodore von Karman | father of supersonic flight |
| Charles Kelman | cataract surgery |
| Rudolf Kompfner | inventor of traveling wave tube |
| Arthur Korn<ref>[9] "German Jewish inventor of the first practical system to send photos over telephone wires."</ref> | forerunner of the fax machine |
| Harold Kosoff | free piston engine & battery powered baby swing |
| Raymond Kurzweil | Reading Machine |
| Melvyn Jérémie Lafitte | inventor of non-invasive ANS monitoring |
| Hedy Lamarr | spread-spectrum radio technology |
| Edwin Land | Polaroid camera |
| Robert Langer | transdermal delivery systems |
| Jerome Lemelson | inventor 500 patents |
| Levi ben Gershon | inventor of Jacob's staff |
| Julius Lilienfeld | 1928: invented transistor |
| Albert Abraham Michelson | Inventor of Interferometer, Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 |
| Theodore Maiman | co-inventor of LASER |
| Siegfried Marcus | 1870: mobile gasoline combustion engine |
| Hinda Miller | co-inventor of the first sports bra Jogbra |
| Michel Mirowski and Morton Mower | implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD |
| Georges Montefiore-Levi | the inventor of phosphorus bronze |
| Pedro Nunes | mathematician inventor of the Nonius |
| Egon Orowan | several inventions |
| Stanford Ovshinsky | amorphous solar cells |
| Cyril Pullin | inventor, engineer and motorcycle race driver |
| Jacob Rodrigues Pereira | deaf-mute language |
| Ron Popeil | owner of Ronco; father of infomercials (Jewish father) |
| Jacob Rabinow | inventor Vice President of CDC scanning and sorting machines |
| Johann Philipp Reis | inventor of telephone (a word that Reis coined) |
| Robert Rines | invention of sonogram sonar |
| Harold Rosen | geosynchronous satellite |
| Samuel Ruben | inventor of Duracell mercury batteries |
| Benjamin Rubin | vaccination needle |
| Reinhold Rudenberg [10] | electron microscope |
| Jonas Salk | Developed polio (poliomyelitis) vaccine, wiping out polio in the civilized world. [11] |
| Nahum Salomon | manufacturer of bicycles; saccharin industry; introduced sewing machine in England |
| George D. Sax | invented drive-through banking and instant loans |
| Arthur Schawlow | co-inventor of LASER MASER Nobel Prize (1981) in physics (Jewish father) |
| Abraham Schreiner | cracked petroleum kerosene Boryslaw Galicia |
| David Schwartz | inventor of Dirigible Zeppelin |
| Raymond Scott | sequencer portable synthesizer |
| Joseph Slepian | Westinghouse Electric Corporation = ADR |
| Joel Spira | solid-state electronic dimmer |
| Leo Sternbach | invention of Valium and Librium Hoffmann-La Roche |
| Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis | blue jeans |
| Leo Szilard | co-invented nuclear fission reactor 1955),First nuclear reactor 1942,
with (Enrico Fermi),Patent Electron Microscope (1931) |
| Max Tishler | poultry disease antibiotic synthesizing of B2 |
| Selman Waksman | streptomycin Nobel Prize (1952) in medicine |
| Joseph Weber | ammonia microwave amplifier, |
| Paul Zoll | co-inventor of external pacemaker and monitor |
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