Resnick

Resnick is a surname shared by several notable individuals in science, technology, and academia. In the field of education and computing, Mitch Resnick is an American computer scientist and educator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known as the co-creator of the Scratch programming language and as a leader of the Lifelong Kindergarten group, which focuses on early childhood learning through creative technologies.

In information science, Paul Resnick is an American professor at the University of Michigan who has contributed to the study of recommender systems and online information services. In physics, Robert Resnick is an American physicist who co-authored the Halliday-Resnick series of introductory physics textbooks, widely used in science education around the world.

The surname is also encountered in scholarly literature and professional contexts beyond these figures, and it has several variant spellings, such as Resnik, reflecting parallel Jewish and Eastern European naming roots in some families. The name Resnick appears in English-speaking countries and in academic communities where these individuals have influenced teaching, research, and technology.