The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Israel
This page contains a list of the greatest Israeli Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 4 of which were born in Israel. This makes Israel the birth place of the 25th most number of Physicists behind Australia, and Pakistan.
Top 5
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Physicists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yuval Ne'eman (1925 - 2006)
With an HPI of 53.89, Yuval Ne'eman is the most famous Israeli Physicist. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Yuval Ne'eman (Hebrew: יובל נאמן, 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi), the Albert Einstein Award, the Wigner Medal, and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
2. Yakir Aharonov (b. 1932)
With an HPI of 51.82, Yakir Aharonov is the 2nd most famous Israeli Physicist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Yakir Aharonov (Hebrew: יקיר אהרונוב; born August 28, 1932) 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. In June 2024 he was elected to serve in the Royal Society of London.6
3. David Deutsch (b. 1953)
With an HPI of 51.02, David Deutsch is the 3rd most famous Israeli Physicist. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.
David Elieser Deutsch ( DOYTCH; born 18 May 1953) is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
4. Yoseph Imry (1939 - 2018)
With an HPI of 44.28, Yoseph Imry is the 4th most famous Israeli Physicist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Yoseph Imry (Hebrew: יוסף אמרי; born 23 February 1939 – 29 May 2018) was an Israeli physicist. He was best known for taking part in the foundation of mesoscopic physics, a relatively new branch of condensed matter physics. It is concerned with how the behavior of systems whose size is in between micro- and macroscopic, crosses over between these two regimes. These systems can be handled and addressed by more or less usual macroscopic methods, but their behavior may still show quantum effects.
5. Nathan Seiberg (b. 1956)
With an HPI of 38.63, Nathan Seiberg is the 5th most famous Israeli Physicist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg (; born September 22, 1956) is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
People
Pantheon has 5 people classified as Israeli physicists born between 1925 and 1956. Of these 5, 3 (60.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Israeli physicists include Yakir Aharonov, David Deutsch, and Nathan Seiberg. The most famous deceased Israeli physicists include Yuval Ne'eman, and Yoseph Imry. As of April 2024, 1 new Israeli physicists have been added to Pantheon including Yoseph Imry.
Living Israeli Physicists
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Yakir Aharonov
1932 - Present
HPI: 51.82
David Deutsch
1953 - Present
HPI: 51.02
Nathan Seiberg
1956 - Present
HPI: 38.63
