Jews in Science Series
Jews In Science

Jews in Science Series 2021 -2022
All Programs begin at 4 PM unless specified. Click here for videos of past sessions.
All Programs begin at 4 PM unless specified. Click here for videos of past sessions.
2/21/2021 Speaker: Richard Gavatin
Introduction to the Series - The core essentials of Science and Judaism
Now available! Recording of February 21 Session here
3/21/2021 Speaker: Dr. Ralph Graff
Professor of Surgery, St. Louis University School of Medicine
Nine Wash U Jewish Scientists Nobel Prize Laureates
Did you know that 37.5% of All Wash U Nobel winners were Jewish?
Now available! Audio recording and pdf of March 21st presentation
Former Asst. Professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University;
retired Managing Principal at Energy & Economics Consulting Firm
Emmy Noether - Mathematics - The Noether Theorem (Math)
Jewish and probably the greatest woman mathematician of all time.
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the April Session
5/23/2021 Speaker: Dr. Howard Granok
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the April Session
5/23/2021 Speaker: Dr. Howard Granok
Science Dept. Chair, Crossroads College Preparatory School; Adjunct Instructor, Wash U in StL
Rosalind Franklin - the actual discoverer of DNA and the Double Helix
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the May Session
Click here to go to the page with the recording of the May Session
7/11/2021 Speaker: Dr. Deborah Rubin
MD, AGAF, William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine, Professor of Developmental Biology
Associate Director for Faculty Affairs Director, Women’s' GI Committee
Associate Director for Faculty Affairs Director, Women’s' GI Committee
Eric Kandel - Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology (2000) - Neuroscience
How his early experiences in Vienna under Nazism influenced his life and his life’s work on the biology of memory
Click here to hear Debbie's amazing lecture once again (or for the first time)
Click here to hear Debbie's amazing lecture once again (or for the first time)
7/25/2021 Speaker Larry Friedman - Attorney and Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP. At Columbia Law School, one of his professors was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Here is Larry's Presentation
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Here is Larry's Presentation
9/19/2021 Speaker: Dr. Bob Olshan
Retired Boeing Engineer, PhD Tel Aviv University BS/MS U
Albert Einstein, his life as a Physicist and a Jew
See it again or for the first time
See it again or for the first time
10/10/2021 Speaker: Dr. Marty Israel
Professor Physics at Wash U
11/21/2021 Speaker: Linda Spitzer Gavatin
Retired Business Management & Computer Accounting Professional
Hedy Lamarr - Inventor of Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth
(Yes, THAT Hedy Lamarr)
View the presentation here
(Yes, THAT Hedy Lamarr)
View the presentation here
12/19/2021 Speaker: Dr. Randi Mozenter
Clinical psychologist, board certified in Clinical Psychopharmacology,
Clinical medical staff at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Wash U Medical School.
Clinical medical staff at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Wash U Medical School.
1/16/2022 Speaker Dr. Phil Gould
Nathan Newmark
Nathan Newmark
Pioneer in the science of earthquakes
2/20/2022 Speaker Sandy Boxerman
3/202022 Speaker Margaret Israel
Primo Levi - Italian Author and Chemist
View the Presentation here
4/24/2022 Speaker Larry Friedman
Primo Levi - Italian Author and Chemist
View the Presentation here
4/24/2022 Speaker Larry Friedman
Attorney and Partner at Thompson Coburn LLP. At Columbia Law School, one of his professors was Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
5/15/2022 Speakers Monroe Ginsburg and Gary Kodner
The Fundamentals of Genealogy
The Fundamentals of Genealogy
6/19/2022 Speaker: Dr. Ralph Graff
Gus Schonfeld
Gus Schonfeld
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