List of Israelis: Encyclopedia II - List of Israelis - Academic figures

List of Israelis - Academic figures

See also List of Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Boldface font is used for laureates of Nobel prize and Turing award.

List of Israelis - Computing and mathematics

• Shmuel Agmon, mathematician,
• Noga Alon, mathematician,
• Shimshon Anitzur,
• Robert "Yisrael" J. Aumann - mathematical game theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2005)
• Amir Ban & Shay Bushinsky - programmers of Deep Junior
• Moshe Bar - creator & main developer of openMosix
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel - machine translation
• Joseph Bernstein,
• Eli Biham - differential cryptanalysis
• Arie Dvoretzky,
• Abraham Fraenkel - ZF set theory
• Hillel Furstenberg,
• Abraham Lempel & Jacob Ziv - LZW compression; Richard W. Hamming Medal (1995)
• Yoram Lidenstrauss,
• Michel Loève - probabilist (born in 1907 Palestine)
• Joel Moses - MIT provost & writer of Macsyma
• Judea Pearl - artificial intelligence, philosophy of action
• Haim Pekeris,
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro - representation theory; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1990)
• Amir Pnueli - temporal logic; Turing Award (1996)
• Michael Rabin - nondeterminism, primality testing; Turing Award (1976)
• Adi Shamir - RSA encryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
• Saharon Shelah - logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
• Ehud Shapiro - Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
• Avi Wigderson - randomized algorithms; Nevanlinna Prize (1994)
• Doron Zeilberger - combinatorics
• Reuven Cohen - Open Source Advocate

There have also been at least 8 Israeli winners of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science: Shlomo Moran (93), Yoram Moses (97), Moshe Vardi (00), Uriel Feige & Shmuel Safra (01), Nir Shavit (04) and Noga Alon & Yossi Matias (05).

List of Israelis - Physics and chemistry

• Yakir Aharonov - Aharonov-Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
• Shlomo Alexander,
• Jacob Bekenstein - black hole thermodynamics
• Amos De-Shalit,
• David Deutsch - quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
• Israel Dostrovsky, physical chemistry,
• Joshua Jortner & Rafi Levine - molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
• Josef Imry, physicist,
• Aaron Katzir, physical chemistry,
• Ephraim Katzir - immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985)
• Zvi Lipkin, physicist,
• Mordehai Milgrom - Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
• Yuval Ne'eman - the "Eightfold way"
• Asher Peres - quantum theory
• Giulio Racah - spectroscopy
• Nathan Rosen - EPR paradox
• Nathan Seiberg - string theory
• Dan Shechtman - quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999)
• Shmuel Shtrikman, physicist,
• Izchak Shteinberg, physicist,
• Zeev Tadmor, chemical engineering,
• Igal Talmi, partical physics
• Chaim Weizmann - acetone production
• Itamar Wilner, chemist,

List of Israelis - Biology and medicine

• Israel Aharoni - discovered the Syrian hamster
• Aaron Ciechanover & Avram Hershko - ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
• Moshe Feldenkrais - invented Feldenkrais method used in movement therapy
• Gavriel Iddan - inventor of capsule endoscopy
• Doron Lancet - smell, origin of life
• Alexander Levitzki - cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
• Leo Sachs - blood cell research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1980)
• Michael Sela & Ruth Arnon - developed Copaxone; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1998)
• Jacob Shani - performed the first atherectomy in New York State(1991); invented an angled catheter(1992)
• Israel Silman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)
• Joel Sussman - 3D structure of acetylcholinesterase, Elkeles Prize for Research in Medicine (2005)

• Valero Aaron-Professor of Medicine,founder of Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, director of goverment hospital

• Meir Wilchek - affinity chromatography; Wolf Prize in Medicine (1987)
• Ada Yonath - structure of ribosome
• Amotz Zahavi - Handicap Principle

List of Israelis - Engineering

• Franz Ollendorf, Electronics, Electrical research,
• Moshe Zakai, Electrical engineering,
• Jacob Ziv, Electrical engineering,

List of Israelis - Philosophy

• Martin Buber - philosopher
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz - philosopher and public figure
• Avishai Margalit - philosopher

List of Israelis - Social sciences

• Aharon Dolgopolsky - linguist: Nostratic
• David Asheri, classical studies,
• SN Eisenstadt - sociologist: multiple modernities
• Haim Ginott - psychologist: child psychology
• Eliyahu Goldratt - business consultant: theory of constraints
• Louis Guttman, sociologist,
• Don Handelman, Anthropology, Sociology,
• Elhanan Helpman - economist: international trade
• Daniel Kahneman - behavioural scientist: prospect theory; Nobel Prize in Economics (2002)
• Benjamin Mazar & Yigael Yadin - archaeologists
• Benny Morris & Avi Shlaim - historians: New Historians
• David Navon, psychologist,
• Erich Neumann - analytical psychologist: development, consciousness
• Hans Polotsky, linguist,
• Ariel Rubinstein, economist,
• Yoram Tsafrir, Archeology,
• Amos Tversky - behavioural scientist: prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman
• Menahem Yaari, economist,

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