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Ferdinand Julius Cohen. From Wikimedia Commons

Ferdinand Cohen: The Jewish scientist from Breslau who laid the foundations of bacteriology

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Zalman Waxman in 1953 in his laboratory at Rutgers University. Wikimedia Commons

Zalman Waxman: From a small Jewish town in Ukraine to the Nobel Prize winner who discovered streptomycin against tuberculosis

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Vladimir Khabkin. Photo: WELCOME TRUST Foundation

Vladimir Khabkin: Fighter against cholera, speech and assimilation

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The Jewish-Russian bacteriologist and immunologist who developed vaccines for cholera and tuberculosis, led the fight against epidemics in India, and worked to preserve Jewish identity (although he recommended that the yeshivots he donated to teach students practical subjects) alongside extensive philanthropy.
A 2004 Russian stamp honoring the Jewish-Soviet scientist Yuli Khariton

Yuli Khariton – Creator of the Soviet Union's nuclear power

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After the American atomic bomb was revealed, Soviet scientist Yuli Khariton moved quickly to achieve deterrence parity for the Soviet Union. How did he become the classified face of the Soviet nuclear program, and what was the personal cost?
James Frank in 1925. Photo: Nobel Prize Foundation

James Frank – Creator of weapons of mass destruction and fighter against them

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Jewish-German physicist, Nobel Prize winner, who helped develop chemical weapons in World War I – and resigned in protest against the Nazis and fought against the use of the atomic bomb
A physicist researching quantum theory in Stalin's USSR. "Non-partisan theory." The image was prepared by DALEE in the absence of an original image of Semyon Semkovsky.

The clash between the theory of relativity and materialist dialectics – the story of the life and work of Semyon Semkovsky

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In 1931, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued a decree banning philosophy and science that were not "party." The theory of relativity was among them. Semyon Bronstein-Semkovsky defended the theory of relativity and paid for it with his life.
Matvey Bronstein. Public domain photo.

Murder of a physicist who destroyed an entire scientific field

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Matvey Bronstein was one of the first scientists to study quantum theory. Being an expert in many fields of physics and knowing many languages ​​did not help him when he was executed in 1939 by the Soviet authorities.
Julius Gamble, 1931. From Wikimedia

Emil Julius Gumbel – Deadly Statistics

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Tovia Kushnir. From Wikipedia

In memory of Tovia Kushnir

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The late Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Migdal Shavitim: Prof. Akiva Bar-Nun passed away

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Marie Curie in a photograph from 1898. From Wikipedia

The scientist who cracked the secret of radioactivity

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Short flashes of light that opened a new world. Zweil (second from the right) with his students Photo: California Institute of Technology

Ahmed Zaweil, the Egyptian researcher who changed the face of the study of fast processes in chemistry, has passed away

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The late Marvin Minsky. Photo from Flickr

Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, has passed away

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Stamp in memory of Niels Bohr. Photo: Sergey Goryachev / Shutterstock.com

Niels Bohr, 1885 – 1962

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The CEO of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Meir Zadok, presents the certificate of appreciation to Dr. Zohar Guri at the second science communication conference, 2009. Photo: Avi Blizovsky - and I apologize in advance for the quality

Dr. Zohar Guri, founder and editor of the youth science magazine "Rosh Gadol" has passed away

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Prof. Jacob Beckenstein. From Wikipedia

The recipient of the Israel Prize in Physics, Prof. Jacob Bekenstein from the Hebrew University, has passed away

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Zvi Yanai hosts the show School on educational television in 2000. Screenshot. From the ThinkIL website which brings together Yanai's many and varied publications

The spiritual heritage of Zvi Yanai - on a website open to the public

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The late Prof. Eshel Ben-Yaakov. Photo: Rice University

Rice University also says goodbye to Prof. Eshel Ben-Yaakov - "one of the world's greatest experts on biocomplexity"

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Professor Eshel Ben Yaakov self-portrait

Prof. Eshel Ben Yaacov, researcher of bacterial colonies from Tel Aviv University, passed away

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John Nash, mathematician and Nobel laureate in economics at a conference dealing with game theory, Cologne, 2006

John Nash I knew

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Shmuel Samborsky. From Wikipedia

Shmuel Samborsky, 1900 – 1990

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Marie Somerville

Marie Fairfax Somerville, and the beginnings of popular science fiction

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Richard Byrd in 1928. From Wikipedia

Aviation pioneer Richard Byrd

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Edward Deming. From Wikipedia

The father of modern quality theory

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David Ben-Gurion, and Prof. Albert Einstein in 1948. Photo: L.A.M. After Chaim Weizmann's death, Ben-Gurion offered Einstein to be the second president but he refused.

Ben-Gurion's New Israel Wisdom: Science instead of flourishing letters

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Prolific researcher and respected teacher. Dulbek receives the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1975. Photo: Salk Institute

Cancer and the strange virus

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Zvi Yanai in the program "Across Israel" on educational television. Screenshot from YOUTUVE (link to the program)

Zvi Yanai has passed away * He was one of the voices most identified with popular science and scientific philosophy

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From his website at the University of Southern California.

The connection between quantum physics and organic chemistry. Part two of the interview given by Nobel laureate Prof. Aryeh Warshel to the Hidan website

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Prof. Aryeh Warshel, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Photo courtesy of him.

Prof. Aryeh Warshel in an interview with the Hidaan site: "I was always content with the first formula in the book, and I entered it into the computer." First part of the series

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Erwin Schrödinger, developer of the equation that explains quantum theory.

Erwin Schrödinger. A fierce opponent of the Nazi regime and the proud owner of a quantum cat

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Alan Turing. Photo: from Wikipedia

XNUMXth anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing - the inventor of the modern computer and victim of the persecution of homosexuals in Britain and the entire Western world in the XNUMXs

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The cover of the book The Riddle of Perlman, by Masha Gessen, Yedioth Books - Attic 2012

Escape to the imagination

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A horse in motion. Photo: Edward Muybridge

Edward Muybridge - inventor of the first moving pictures

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Nicholas Steno. From Wikipedia

Nikolaos Steno - the man who laid the foundation for several different fields of science

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Robert Noyce. From Wikipedia

The Three Revolutions of Robert Noyce

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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. From Wikipedia

The prince's deputy

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Virginia Apgar in 1966. From Wikipedia

And what about the baby? About Virginia Apgar who cut infant mortality in the United States in half

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Credit: Wikipedia, Il Beiri, with the permission of the late Natan Sharon

The late Professor Nathan Sharon (1925-2011)

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Prof. Albert Einstein with the secretary, Helen Doukas. Photo courtesy of the Einstein Archives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Albert Einstein's immigration card to England was discovered

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200 years since the birth of Robert Bunsen - the man thanks to whom we know what the distant stars are made of

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

Who is for life and who is for death

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Poster of the Science Museum in Florence, June 2010, in honor of its transformation into the Galileo Museum

Galileo's fingers are on display in a museum in Florence

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Einstein

Einstein's other mind

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The hunger for knowledge

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

"I didn't know there was such a profession as a scientist until I came to the Weizmann Institute to study for a doctorate and saw how they work here"

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Suicide Mission - on the book 'The Dark Lady of DNA'

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Avraham de Moivare - the father of probability theory

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

Chandra - the man after whom the telescope celebrating a decade of its activity in space is named

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

The Dark Lady of DNA - by Barbara Maddox

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Ancient galaxy caught as environment robs it of raw material for star formation

400 years since the first observation through a telescope by Galileo Galilei

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