The Difference Between Muslims and Jews

Note: Below are two lists; the top list consisting of Muslim scholars and their fields of science and below them a list of Jewish scholars and their fields of science. Now, compare these two lists and see who has contributed most to mankind. It's not even close. And Muslims talk about world domination. Ha! They better watch out they don't blow themselves to hell. Information courtesy Wikipedia. HF

                                                                                       Famous Muslim Scientists

Astronomy

• Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician.
• Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician.

Chemistry

• Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize, 1999
• Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan, (Geber)
• Rashad Khalifa, biochemist
• Abdulrahim Nasr Chafi, Dr. Chafi is a Chemist and Civil/Environmental Engineer

Geography

• Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer

Mathematicians

• al-Samawal
• Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
• Jamshid al-Kashi
• Abu Kamil
• Abu Sahl al-Kuhi
• Abu Bakr al-Karaji
• Al-Khwarizmi
• Abu Nasr Mansur
• Ahmad ibn Yusuf
• Al-Jawhari
• Al-Kindi
• Alhazen
• Biruni
• Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer.
• Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th Century Persian mathematician and philosopher

Medicine

• Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physican
• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physican
• Abu Al-Qasim
• Avicenna, (Ibn Sina) also a philosopher
• Saghir Akhtar pharmacist
• Rhazes (Al Razi), also a chemist

Physics

• Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi, 9th Century Arab mathematician
• Averroes, 12th Century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medicine expert
• Al-Jazari, 13th Century civil engineer
• Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th Century Iranian physicist
• Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th Century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
• Abdus Salam, Nobel Prize, 1979, Pakistani physicist (note: member of the Ahmadiyya community, regarded as non-Muslim by mainstream Muslims)

                                                                                        Famous Jewish Scientists

Austria

• Martin Buber, philosopher
• Erwin Chargaff, chemist, DNA pioneer
• Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis (Atheist by practice)
• Nachman Krochmal, philosopher
• Robert von Lieben, physicist (Jewish father)
• Lise Meitner, physicist: nuclear fission
• Ludwig von Mises, economist
• Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize (1945) (one non-Jewish grandparent)
• Karl Popper, leading twentieth century philosopher of science (converted to Lutheranism)
• Otto Weininger, philosopher
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (one non-Jewish grandparent; parents converted to Christianity, he was baptized and given a Christian burial)

France

• Henri Bergson, philosopher, Nobel Prize (1927)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, physicist, Nobel Prize (1997)
• Émile Durkheim, sociologist
• Francois Jacob, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1965)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist
• Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician, fractal geometry
• Henri Moissan, chemist, Nobel Prize (1906) (Catholic father)
• Laurent Schwartz, mathematician, Fields Medal (1950)
• André Weil, mathematician, Wolf Prize (1979), Steele Prize (1980)

Germany

• Hannah Arendt, philosopher
• Walter Benjamin, philosopher
• Hans Bethe, nuclear physics, Nobel Prize (1967) (Lutheran father)
• Max Born, quantum mechanics pioneer, Nobel Prize (1954)
• Georg Cantor, set theory (father Jewish by birth, mother Catholic by birth; both Lutheran by practice)
• Albert Einstein, greatest scientist of 20th century, theoretical physics, Nobel Prize (1921)
• Paul Ehrlich, developed magic bullet concept, Nobel Prize (1908)
• Erich Fromm, psychologist and humanistic philosopher
• Alexander Grothendieck, algebraic geometry, Fields Medal (1966) (Protestant mother)
• Heinrich Hertz, electromagnetic radiation pioneer (Jewish father)
• Edmund Husserl, philosopher, founder of phenomenology
• Edmund (Yehezkel) Landau, number theory.
• Albert Michelson, measured speed of light, Nobel Prize (1907)
• Hermann Minkowski, geometrical theory of numbers
• Erich Neumann, psychologist
• Franz Rosenzweig, philosopher
• Karl Schwarzschild, physicist and astronomer

Great Britain

• Sir Alfred Ayer, philosopher, major figure in logical positivism, (Jewish mother)
• Lord Peter Bauer, international development economist
• Sir Isaiah Berlin, political philosopher, historian of ideas
• Sir Hermann Bondi, cosmologist, co-developer of steady-state theory
• Sydney Brenner, molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (2002)
• Selig Brodetsky, mathematician and Jewish communal leader
• Sir Ernst Chain, biochemist, penicillin co-developer, Nobel Prize (1945)
• Sir Michael Epstein, biologist
• Ernest Gellner, philosopher, social-scientist
• Rosalind Franklin, molecular biologist, DNA pioneer
• H. L. A. Hart, philosopher of law
• Brian David Josephson, Nobel Prize
• Lord Richard Kahn, economist, multiplier theory
• Lord Nicholas Kaldor, economist
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, Krebs cycle, Nobel Prize (1953)
• Harold Kroto, biologist Nobel Prize (Jewish father)
• Max Newman, mathematician and computer pioneer, Colossus (Jewish father)
• Leslie Orgel, chemist
• Sir Rudolf Peierls, physicist, theory of hole carriers in semiconductors, Enrico Fermi Award (1980)
• Sir Max Perutz, chemist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize (1962)
• Sir Karl Popper, leading twentieth century philosopher of science
• David Ricardo, greatest classical economist after Adam Smith
• James Joseph Sylvester, mathematician, major contributor to matrix theory

Hungary

• Paul Erdos, mathematician
• Theodore von Kármán, aeronautical engineer
• Georg Lukács, Marxist philosopher
• John von Neumann, computer scientist, mathematician
• Michael Polanyi, polymath
• Leó Szilárd, physicist
• Edward Teller, physicist, father of hydrogen bomb
• Eugene Wigner, physicist; Nobel Prize (1963)

Israel

• Israel Aharoni, zoologist
• Dorit Aharonov, computer scientist, quantum computing
• Yakir Aharonov, physicist, quantum physics
• Noga Alon, mathematician
• Ruth Arnon, biochemist; Wolf prize (1998)
• Robert Aumann, mathematician, game theory; Nobel prize (2005)
• Jacob Bekenstein, physicist, gravity
• Eli Biham, computer scientist, cryptography
• Aaron Ciechanover, biologists; Nobel Prize (2004)
• Irun Cohen, immunologist
• Shlomi Dolev, computer scientist, distributed computing
• Shimon Even, computer scientist
• Oded Goldreich, computer scientist, cryptography
• Avram Hershko, biologist; Nobel Prize (2004)
• Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist, 4th president of Israel
• Abraham Lempel, computer scientist, data compression
• Yuval Ne'eman, physicist, particle physics
• Amos Ori, physicist, gravity
• Asher Peres, physicist, foundations of quantum mechanics
• Amir Pnueli, computer scientist; Turing award (1996)
• Nathan Rosen, physicist, Founder of the Technion - Israel institute of technology
• Leo Sachs, molecular biologist, immunology
• Adi Shamir, computer scientist, cryptography; coinventor of RSA
• Ehud Shapiro, computer scientist,
• Yair Sprinzak, chemist, organic chemistry, Israeli politician
• Reshef Tenne, chemist, material research and nanotechnology
• Lev Vaidman, physicist, quantum physics
• Haim Weizmann, chemist, 1st president of Israel
• Jacob Ziv, computer scientist, data compression

Poland

• Solomon Asch, Gestalt psychologist
• Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician: fractals
• Albert Sabin, inventor of the oral Polio vaccine
• Alfred Tarski, logician and mathematician
• Stanislaw Ulam, mathematician, Manhattan Project

Russia/Ukraine

• Vladimir Drinfeld, mathematician, Fields Medal (1990)
• Israel Gelfand, mathematician, Wolf Prize (1978), Kyoto Prize (1989), Steele Prize (2005)
• Vitaly Ginzburg, physicist, Nobel Prize (2003)
• Waldemar Haffkine, biologist, vaccines against cholera and plague
• Lev Landau, physicist, many contributions to theoretical physics, Nobel Prize (1962)
• Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
• Wassily Leontief, economist, Nobel Prize (1973) (Russian-Orthodox father)
• Ilya Prigogine, mathematician, Nobel Prize (1979) in chemistry
• Ayn Rand, philosopher, founder of Objectivism
• Selman Waksman, biochemist, discoverer of streptomycin, Nobel Prize (1952)
• Yakov Zeldovich, cosmologist
• Efim Zelmanov, mathematician, Fields Medal (1994)

Netherlands

• Karl Marx, economist, co-founder of communism (Atheist by practice) (Dutch mother)
• Baruch Spinoza, philosopher (excommunicated)

Australia/Canada

• Gustav Nossal, immunologist (Catholic mother)
• Steven Pinker, pioneer of evolutionary psychology
• John Polanyi, chemist, Nobel Prize (1986) (Catholic mother)
• Peter Singer, philosopher

United States

• Franz Boas, founder of American Anthropology
• David Bohm, quantum physics pioneer and theoretical physicist, philosopher of science
• Emile Berliner, inventor of gramophone
• Noam Chomsky, America's greatest linguist
• Jesse Douglas, mathematician, Fields Medal (1936)
• Richard Epstein, classical liberal economist from the University of Chicago
• Richard Feynman, quantum physicist, co-founder of quantum electrodynamics Nobel Prize (1965)
• Milton Friedman, monetarist economist, Clark Medal (1951), Nobel Prize (1976)
• Murray Gell-Mann, discoverer of quarks, Nobel Prize
• Arthur Jensen, educational psychologist and intelligence researcher (mother Jewish)
• John Kemeny, computer scientist, co-founder of BASIC
• Edwin Land, inventor of polaroid
• John McCarthy, artificial intelligence pioneer (Catholic father)
• Theodore Maiman, inventor of first laser
• Daniel Nathans, discoverer of restriction enzymes
• Robert Nozick, philosopher of libertarianism and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University
• Robert Oppenheimer, nuclear physicist, nuclear bomb, Manhattan Project
• Gregory Pincus, inventor of the Pill
• Ayn Rand, developed the philosophy of Objectivism
• Murray Rothbard, anarcho-capitialist economist
• Carl Sagan, astronomer and science popularizer, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
• Jonas Salk, polio vaccine
• Leo Strauss, political philosopher
• Norbert Wiener, founder of cybernetics
• Edward Witten, M-theory, Fields Medal (1990)