Jewish Inventions and Contributions
This is a list of things Jews, both religious and ethnic, have added to society! Please feel free to add to this list! Especially in the case of Jewish women and Jews of color! Most of these were from some cursory research so I would love people to expand and make this list more inclusive!
invention - inventor - source(s)
Lasers - Theodore Maiman - 1, 2, 3
Pacemaker & Defibrillator - Paul Zoll (aka Father of Modern Electrophysiology/ElectrocardiaTherapy) - 1, 2, 3
Recombinant DNA Molecules - Paul Berg - 1, 2, 3
Transgenic Organisms - Stanley Cohen - 1, 2
Goldschmidt Reduction Process (Stainless Steel) - Hans Goldschmidt - 1, 2, 3
Noether’s Theorem & fundamentals of (noncommutative) algebra - Emmy Noether (Mother of Modern Algebra) - 1, 2, 3
Mass-Energy Equivalence & Photoelectric Effect - Albert Einstein - 1, 2, 3
Cholera & Bubonic Plague Vaccines - Waldemar Haffkine - 1, 2, 3
Blood Groups, ABO Blood Group System, & Polio’s Causative Agent - Karl Landsteiner - 1, 2, 3
Polio Vaccine - Jonas Salk - 1, 2, 3
Atomic Bomb - Robert Oppenheimer - 1, 2, 3
Capitalism (word and some conceptual contributions, tho overall those go to Adam Smith) - David Ricardo - 1, 2, 3
Marxism & Communism - Karl Marx* - 1, 2 ,3
Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - 1, 2, 3
Shopping Carts - Sylvan Nathan Goldman - 1, 2, 3
Latex Condoms - Julius Fromm - 1, 2
Video Games - Ralph Baer - 1, 2
Modern Anthropology - Claude Levi-Strauss - 1
Ball Point Pen - Laszlo Biro - 1
Teddy Bear - Morris Michtom - 1
Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud - 1
Barbie Doll - Rith Handler - 1
Baskin Robbins - Baskin and Irv Robbins - 1
Ben and Jerry’s - Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield - 1
Dunkin Donuts - William Rosenberg - 1
Structure of DNA/Double Helix - Rosalind Franklin** - 1
Nerve-Growth Factor (NGF) - Rita Levi-Montalcini - 1
Flame Retardabt Fibre - Giuliana Tesoro - 1
*-yes, yes we all know the famous religion is the opiate of the poeple and that he converted out to save himself, however, Marx was Ashkenazi
**-I KNOW SHE WASNT RECOGNIZED FOR IT BUT THE TWO MEN WHO WERE STOLE HER RESEARCH!
Also, antisemites aren’t allowed to use any of these now :) antisemitic additions will be blocked and reported on sight
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