Max Jammer (מקס ימר; born Moshe Jammer,[1] German: [ˈjamɐ]; April 13, 1915 – December 18, 2010), was an Israeli physicist and philosopher of physics.

[2] Jammer studied physics, philosophy and history of science, first at the University of Vienna, and then from 1935 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received a PhD in experimental physics in 1942.

He served in the British Army for the rest of the war.

He subsequently became a lecturer there and a close colleague of Albert Einstein at Princeton University.

He is the father of Rabbi Michael Yammer[4] who is the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivat Sha’alvim.