Today’s Jewish Birthday

Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 – April 16, 1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer. Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [Wikipedia]

Bella Abzug (July 24, 1920 – March 31, 1998) was an American lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leader in the women’s movement. [Wikipedia]

Otto Warburg (July 20, 1859 –  January 10, 1938) was a German-Jewish botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert and president of the Zionist Organization from 1911 to 1921. [Wikipedia]

Roald Hoffmann (July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. [Wikipedia]

Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos. [Wikipedia]

Gertrude Goldhaber (July 14, 1911 – February 2, 1998) was a German-born Jewish-American nuclear physicist. She earned her PhD from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and though her family suffered during the Holocaust, Gertrude was able to escape to London and later to the United States. [Wikipedia]