APS Fellow Archive

The APS Fellow Archive contains records of many APS Fellows from 1921 to the present. Please note some Fellows may not be displayed or may display with limited information.

The archive is a historical record and is not updated to reflect current information. All institutional affiliations reflect the Fellows’ affiliations at the time of election to APS Fellowship.

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Yakir Aharonov [1978]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: Not available
Nominated by: APS

Gideon Alexander [1985]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions to hyperon-nucleon interactions, for recent studies of the upsilon and its decay into three-gluon jets, of tau decays, and of photon-photon reactions.
Nominated by: DPF

David Andelman [2004]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For definitive theoretical contributions to a broad range of problems in soft condensed matter, including monolayers, surfactant solutions and polyelectrolyte solutions.
Nominated by: DCMP

Daniel Ashery [1988]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contribution to the understanding of pion-nucleus interaction, and in particular of the true absorption process.
Nominated by: DNP

Naftali Auerbach [1986]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For his many important contributions to the theoretical understanding of nuclear structure.
Nominated by: DNP

Mark Ya Azbel [1986]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For his contribution to the Azbel-Kaner cyclotron resonance method, his elucidation of the complex spectrum of Bloch electrons in magnetic field, and his theoretical work on DNA denaturation and transport through finite random structures.
Nominated by: DCMP

Eshel Ben-Jacob [2005]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For innovative applications of nonequilibrium physics to complex biological systems,especially bacterial colony patterns and cultured neuron activity.
Nominated by: DBIO

David J. Bergman [1989]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of third sound, the concept of finite-size scaling, the statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium steady states, and the physics of composite media.
Nominated by: DCMP

Ori Cheshnovsky [2008]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For establishing negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy as a central tool for the investigation of electronic states in mass-selected clusters.
Nominated by: DLS

Haim Diamant [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For elucidating multiple new forms of hydrodynamic interaction, molecular association, and mechanical buckling, and their role in biomembranes and microfluidic channels.
Nominated by: DSOFT

Leonid Frankfurt [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.
Nominated by: DNP

Isaac Goldhirsch [2001]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For seminal contributions in the field of granular fluids and fundamental contributions in magnetism, solid-state physics, dynamical systems and hydrodynamics.
Nominated by: FIP

A. Gover [2007]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For outstanding scientific achievements and leadership in international cooperation in the area of Free Electron Lasers.
Nominated by: FIP

Joshua Jortner [1985]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions to chemical physics which have elucidated the nature of radiationless relaxation processes in large molecules and condensed phases, providing a general and useful conceptual framework for the description of molecular dynamics.
Nominated by: DCP

Jechiel Lichtenstadt [2006]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions in Experimental nuclear physics from the study of lead high-spin states to the investigation of lithium nuclei, and the measurement of the nucleon electromagnetic form-factors and spin structure.
Nominated by: DNP

Ron Lifshitz [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For the theory of nonlinear dynamics and relaxation of vibrational modes in nanomechanical systems and for groundbreaking results on the symmetry stabilization, and photonic and magnetic properties of quasicrystals.
Nominated by: DMP

Roman G. Mints [2013]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For contributions to the theory of critical state in type-II superconductors, and prediction of non-quantized flux of Josephson vortices on grain boundaries in high-Tc cuprates.
Nominated by: DCMP

Abraham Nitzan [1989]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For uniting statistical, quantum, and classical dynamics to develop and apply accurate models for quantitative and mechanic understanding of individual molecule dynamics in vapor and condensed phases.
Nominated by: DCP

Eli Piasetzky [2015]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For pioneering explorations of the high momentum structure of the nuclear wave function using high energy probes and the discovery of the dominance of proton-neutron pairs.
Nominated by: DNP

Benjamin Svetitsky [2010]
Tel Aviv University
Citation: For elucidating the properties of the confinement-deconfinement transition
of gauge theories at high temperature and of the quark-gluon plasma.
Nominated by: DNP