Benjamin Fain

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Benjamin Fain

Benjamin Fain ( Russian Вениамин (Биньямин) Файн ; Hebrew בנימין פיין; * February 17, 1930 in Kiev ; † April 14, 2013 in Pardes Hanna-Karkur in the Haifa district ) was a Soviet - Israeli physicist and university professor .

Life

Fain was the son of Jewish mathematician Moisei Fain, of his son after his from the Petlyura -Unterstützern during Proskurov - pogrom called 1919 killed grandfather. After the evacuation during the German-Soviet War , the family lived in Dushanbe , where Fain graduated from school in 1948. He then studied at the Moscow Energy Institute , where his talent for physics became clear. He also visited the synagogue , where he was very impressed by the visit of Israel's first ambassador , Golda Meir . He now tried to learn Hebrew and Yiddish . 1950 he managed the change to the physical faculty of the University of Gorky . He graduated with honors in 1954 and became an assistant at WL Ginsburg .

In 1956 Fain became a candidate and in 1964 a doctorate in physical-mathematical sciences . In 1965 he was appointed professor. He headed the chair for quantum electronics . His books have been translated into English and German .

In 1966 Fain moved to the Institute for Solid State Physics in Chernogolowka

From 1972 Fain got involved in a Zionist group . He took part in a scientific refusenik seminar. In 1974, after his wife and daughter left the country, he applied for a visa for Israel without success, so that he became a refusenik himself. In 1976 he approached Orthodox Judaism and married Susanna Roschanska as a second marriage. In the same year he began a sociological study of the Jews in the Soviet Union . An international symposium on this was prevented by the KGB . After several arrests, interrogations, the loss of his job in Chernogolovka and a hunger strike , he received an exit visa in 1977 and left for Israel.

At the University of Tel Aviv Fain continued investigations Festkörperphysik-fort his. He continued to stand up for the Soviet Jews and had two sons.

From 1998 the theory of science and Judaism and their mutual relationships became Fain's main focus. He published his results in a number of books in retirement.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT), Department of Development and External Affairs: Professor Benjamin Fain (accessed May 15, 2017).
  2. ↑ VM Fain: Quantum Electronics - Basic: 1 . MIT Press, 1969, ISBN 0-262-06030-2 .
  3. ↑ Benjamin Fain: Quantum Electronics: Physics of the Maser and Laser . Teubner, 1969.
  4. ↑ Иосиф Бегун: К истории еврейской общины в Москве (accessed May 15, 2017).
  5. ↑ Tel Aviv University: Benjamin Fain Professor Emeritus (accessed May 16, 2017).
  6. ^ Benjamin Fain: Theory of Rate Processes in Condensed Media (Lecture Notes in Chemistry) . Springer-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 0-387-10249-3 .
  7. ^ Benjamin Fain: Creation Ex Nihilo: Thoughts on Science, Divine Providence, Free Will, and Faith in the Perspective of My Own Experiences . Urim Publications, 2007, ISBN 965-229-399-7 .
  8. ^ Benjamin Fain: Law and Providence: Spirit and Matter, Divine Providence and the Laws of Nature, and the Openness of the World to God and Man . Urim Publications, 2011, ISBN 965-524-058-4 .
  9. ^ Benjamin Fain: The Poverty of Secularism: An Open World Governed by the Creator versus a Closed, Imaginary World that Develops on Its Own . Urim Publications, 2013, ISBN 965-524-136-X .
personal data
SURNAME Fain, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Файн, Вениамин (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Israeli physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2013
Place of death Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Haifa District