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Bio
Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. |
citizen of the United States of America . |
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Religion and Beliefs
This user is Jewish. |
This user observes the dietary laws of Kashrut. |
This user observes Shabbat. |
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Ontario Power Company Generating Station
American Memorial to Six Million Jews of Europe
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Jews that significantly contributed to society, and are therefore my heroes (well some of them anyway!!)
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2) Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century
3) Samuel Gompers, long-time leader of the American Federation of Labor.
4) Sergey Brin, and Larry Page founders of Google.
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7) Robert Moses, New York City planner.
8) Jonas Salk, inventor of the first polio vaccine.
8-A) Albert Sabin inventor of the oral polio vaccine.
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11) Karl Landsteiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for development of the modern system of classification of blood groups.
12) Luis de Santángel, arranged for the majority of the financing for the voyage of Christopher Columbus to America, contributing much of the money from his own pocket and additional money that he had borrowed.
13) Richard Stallman, Proposer of the concept of an “open source web-based online encyclopedia” which led to the development of Wikipedia.
14-14A-14B) Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, co-founders of Facebook
15) Moses Seixas, warden of the Touro Synagogue, Originator - in a letter to President George Washington - of the famous words “To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”, which was then reflected in Washington’s response to him, and has since become one of the most important expressions of Freedom of religion in the United States.
16) Max Levchin one of the co-founders of PayPal.
17) Abraham Jacobi a pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States.
18) Emma Lazarus Wrote the Poem with the words: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", these words appear on the plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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20) Craig Newmark founder of Craigslist.
21) Paul Baran invented packet switching, which is an essential part of the Internet.
22) Martin Cooper considered the "father of the cell phone".
23) Richard H. Frenkiel and Joel S. Engel co-recipients of the National Medal of Technology for their contributions to the creation of cellular systems.
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25) Leonard Kleinrock who played an influential role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
26-27) physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig Who bote independently proposed the Up quark and the Down quark in the Standard Model of the Atom, And to postulate the Strange quark.
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30) Leon M. Lederman who led the team to discover the Bottom quark.
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32) Wolfgang Pauli who hypothesized the existence of the Electron neutrino. Frederick Reines one of two people who led the team who discovered the Electron neutrino.
33) Leon M. Lederman (Same as in number 30 above), Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger who discovered the Muon neutrino.
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37) Yoshua Bengio who - together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun - are referred to by some as the "Godfathers of AI"
38) Irving Berlin Who wrote the song God Bless America.
39) Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Who first proposed the principle of the Field-effect transistor leading the way to the wide use of transistors, which some call The Most Important Invention of the 20th Century.
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41) Gertrude B. Elion the woman who gave the world antiviral drugs.
42) Irving Nachumsohn Naxon inventor of the Slow cooker. (Cholent has never been the same since!)
43-44-45) Matthew Meselson, François Jacob and Sydney Brenner Who discovered the existence of Messenger RNA.
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48) Abner Shimony, one of four who developed the CHSH inequality measurement that can be used in the proof of Bell's theorem.
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51) Waldemar Haffkine recognized as the first microbiologist who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague.
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53) Ralph H. Baer considered "The Father of Video Games".