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20th-century Jewish medical doctors

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Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian writer (1862–1931)
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Polish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)
Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
Gerald Edelman
American biologist (1929–2014)
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)
Paul Greengard
American neuroscientist (1925-2019)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
Irvin Yalom
American psychotherapist and writer
Eric Berne
Canadian psychiatrist (1910-1970)
Marek Edelman
(1919–2009) Jewish resistance member
Alexander Luria
Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)
Aletta Jacobs
Dutch physician and feminist, editor (1854–1929)
Sándor Ferenczi
Hungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)
Jacob L. Moreno
Austrian-American psychiatrist
Fritz Perls
German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist (1893-1970)
Baruch Goldstein
American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
Ellen S. Baker
American physician and astronaut
Margaret Mahler
Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1897-1985)
Immanuel Velikovsky
Russian, Israeli and American author (1895–1979)
Henry Heimlich
American surgeon widely credited as the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver (1920-2016)
Gavriil Ilizarov
Soviet physician and inventor (1921-1992)
Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
Grunya Sukhareva
Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university teacher (1891-1981)
Ernst Weiss
Czech physician and writer (1882-1940)
Clemens von Pirquet
Austrian physician (1874-1929)
František Langer
Czechoslovak playwright, general, doctor and writer (1888–1965)
Heinz Kohut
Austrian-American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (1913-1981)
Michael Balint
Hungarian psychoanalyst (1896–1970)
Judit Temes
swimmer (1930-2013)
Roberto Assagioli
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (1888-1974)
Judah Folkman
American biologist (1933–2008)
Miriam Adelson
American and Israeli billionaire (born 1945)
Adam Zamenhof
Polish ophthalmologist (1888-1940)
Gisela Januszewska
Austrian physician (1867–1943)
Otto F. Kernberg
Austrian psychoanalyst and psychologist
Simon Flexner
American scientist (1863-1946)
Arnold Pick
Czech psychiatrist (1851–1924)
Alexandra Adler
neurologist (1901-2001)
Roza Papo
Bosnian Jewish physician and general of the Yugoslav People's Army (1914–1984)
John Edward Mack
American psychiatrist (1929–2004)
Sidney Farber
American physician (1903-1973)
Siegfried Bernfeld
Austrian psychologist and educator (1892–1953)
Giuseppe Levi
Italian anatomist and histologist (1872-1965)
Edouard Zeckendorf
mathematician, military officer, physician (1901–1983)
Paul Gerson Unna
German physician and dermatologist (1850-1929)
Iddo Netanyahu
Israeli physician, author and playwright (born 1952)
Arthur Kronfeld
German psychiatrist (1886–1941)
Jean Hamburger
French physician (1909–1992)
Jerusha Jhirad
Indian physician (1891–1984)
Michael Heidelberger
American immunologist (1888-1991)
John Mendelsohn
American doctor (1936-2019)
Paul Gyorgy
Hungarian American biochemist, nutritionist, and pediatrician (1893–1976)