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Yakir Aharonov

1932 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yakir Aharonov has received more than 196,262 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Yakir Aharonov is the 527th most popular physicist (up from 545th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Israel (down from 218th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Israeli Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yakir Aharonov ranks 527 out of 717. Before him are Lester Germer, Max Wien, Sergey Kapitsa, John Sealy Townsend, Gerard K. O'Neill, and Samuel T. Cohen. After him are Dmitri Ivanenko, Georg Hermann Quincke, Woldemar Voigt, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Augusto Righi, and Antonio Pacinotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Yakir Aharonov ranks 231. Before him are Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Jean Stablinski, Solange Berry, Erró, Donald Byrd, and Albert Collins. After him are Parry O'Brien, Sanpei Shirato, Ted Cassidy, Elaine May, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Otto Schily.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yakir Aharonov ranks 222 out of 430. Before him are Naomi Shemer (1930), Mordechai Gur (1930), Judea Pearl (1936), Arik Einstein (1939), Dan Halutz (1948), and Gali Atari (1953). After him are Izhar Cohen (1951), Gabi Ashkenazi (1954), Adi Shamir (1952), Suha Arafat (1963), Ron Arad (1951), and David Deutsch (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Israel

Among physicists born in Israel, Yakir Aharonov ranks 2. Before him are Yuval Ne'eman (1925). After him are David Deutsch (1953) and Nathan Seiberg (1956).

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