This list of Canadian Jews includes notable Canadian Jews or Canadians of Jewish descent, arranged by field of activity. Academic figures Biology and medicine Eric Berne (1910–1970), psychiatrist John Bienenstock (1936– ), immunologist Daniel Borsuk (1978– ), plastic surgeon Éric Cohen (1958– ), molecular virologist Max Cynader (1947– ), ophthalmologist and neuroscientist Dorothy Dworkin (1889–1976), nurse and founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto William Feindel (1918–2014), neurosurgeon Samuel Freedman (1928– ), clinical immunologist Phil Gold (1936– ), medical researcher Larry Goldenberg (1953– ), medical researcher Carl Goresky (1932–1996), physician and scientist Michael Hayden (1951– ), geneticist Sara Hestrin-Lerner (1918–2017), physiologist Abram Hoffer (1917–2009), physician and psychiatrist Charles Hollenberg (1930–2003), physician and medical researcher Harold Kaplan (1928–1998), psychiatrist George Karpati (1934–2009), neurologist Gideon Koren (1947– ), pediatrician Gabor Maté (1944– ), physician Harry Medovy (1904–1995), paediatrician Henry Morgentaler (1923–2013), doctor and abortion activist Richard Goldbloom (1924–2021), paediatrician Mel Rosenberg (1951– ), microbiologist Sydney Segal (1920–1997), pediatrician and neonatologist Louis Siminovitch (1920–2021), molecular biologist Nahum Sonenberg (1946– ), microbiologist and biochemist Ralph Steinman (1943–2011), medical researcher; Nobel Prize in Medicine (2011) Karl Stern (1906–1975), neurologist and psychiatrist Mark Wainberg (1945–2017), HIV/AIDS researcher Zena Werb (1945–2020), cell biologist Computing and mathematics Dror Bar-Natan (1966– ), topologist Yoshua Bengio (1964– ), computer scientist David Borwein (1924–2021), mathematician Jonathan Borwein (1951–2016), mathematician Peter Borwein (1953–2020), mathematician Nathan Divinsky (1925–2012), mathematician and chess master Ian Goldberg (1973– ), cryptographer Calvin Gotlieb (1921–2016), computer scientist Michael Gurstein (1944–2017), computer scientist Israel Halperin (1911–2007), algebraist Hans Heilbronn (1908–1975), mathematician William Kahan (1933– ), computer scientist and mathematician; Turing Award (1989) Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician Yael Karshon (1964– ), symplectic geometer Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn (1917–2006), combinatorialist and group theorist Pierre Milman (1945– ), algebraic and differential geometer Louis Nirenberg (1925–2020), analyst; Abel Prize (2015) Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), applied mathematician Robert Steinberg (1922–2014), algebraist George Zames (1934–1997), control theorist Engineering Norbert Berkowitz (1924–2001), engineering researcher Gregory Chamitoff (1962– ), NASA astronaut and engineer Valery Fabrikant (1940– ), mechanical engineer and convicted murderer Charles Hershfield (1910–1990), structural engineer Josef Kates (1921–2018), engineer Leon Katz (1924–2015), biomedical engineer Cyril Leonoff (1925–2016), geotechnical engineer History Irving Abella (1940– ), historian Norman Cantor (1929–2004), historian Natalie Zemon Davis (1928– ), historian David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), historian Jan Grabowski (1962– ), historian and writer Jack Granatstein (1939– ), political and military historian Ronald Hamowy (1937–2012), historian and political theorist Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), historian