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Yakir Aharonov

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Israeli physicist

IsraelScientistsBorn 1932 · age 94
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Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since 2008.

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2024Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2009National Medal of Science
2009Clarivate Citation Laureates
2006The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture
1998Wolf Prize in Physics
1991Elliott Cresson Medal
1989Israel Prize
1984Rothschild Prize
emeritus
honorary doctorate of Technion
Fellow of the American Physical Society
honorary doctorate of the University of South Carolina

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Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California since 2008. He was a distinguished professor in the Perimeter Institute between 2009-2012 and is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at University of South Carolina. He is president of the IYAR, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.

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Israel
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Scientists
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Scientist
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living
Dates
Born 1932 · age 94
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