Haim Harari
Haim Harari ( Hebrew חיים הררי; * November 18, 1940 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli elementary particle physicist and science organizer.
Life
Harari comes from a family that has lived in Palestine since the 19th century. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a diploma in 1961 and a doctorate in 1965. In 1967, Harari became the youngest associate professor at the Weizmann Institute , where he received a full professorship in 1970 and became an institute professor in 1999. From 1988 to 2001 he was President of the Weizmann Institute for Science .
He has been visiting scholar and visiting professor at CERN , Stanford University , Cornell University , Harvard University , Fermilab , Rockefeller University and the University of California, Berkeley .
His main contributions to the physics of elementary particles are the prediction of the top and bottom quarks and the first complete representation of the Standard Model with three families - six quarks and six leptons (1975). He also proposed a model of elementary particles in which quarks and leptons are made up of even more fundamental building blocks ( Rishon model ). He also worked on this with his student Nathan Seiberg .
From 1972 to 1978 he was Dean of the Graduate School and from 1988 to 2001 he was President of the Weizmann Institute, whose financial resources he strengthened considerably through a clever investment policy and fundraising.
From 1979 to 1985 he was chairman of the planning and budget committee in the Israeli Council for Higher Education, which among other things distributes research funds in Israel and controls the establishment of universities and schools. In 1991/92 he chaired the Israeli National Education Council and was the founder of the Davidson Institute of Science Education in Rehovot and the Hemda Science Center in Tel Aviv .
He is the co-founder of Perach , a scholarship program for students who teach underprivileged students in return. The program, in which around 30,000 students take part, received the 2008 Israel Prize .
In 2005 he published a book A View from the Eye of the Storm - Terror and Reason in the Middle East (Harper-Collins), which reflects his view of the Middle East situation.
From 1997 to 2006 he was an international advisory body for Daimler-Chrysler. Haim Harari is the head of the six-member executive committee that was tasked with founding the Institute of Science and Technology Austria in Maria Gugging ( Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria ).
In June 2014 it became known that Harari would be granted Austrian citizenship .
Honors
- Rothschild Prize 1976.
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (1986)
- Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences (1979)
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010)
- Israel Prize (1989)
- EMET Prize 2004.
- Large Federal Cross of Merit
- Harnack Medal of the Max Planck Society (May 21, 1999)
- Golden Commander's Cross of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria (2011)
- Honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University in the Negev (1987)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux (1993)
- Honorary doctorate from two other universities
Fonts
- Quarks and Leptons. In: Physics Reports. Volume 42, 1978, pp. 235-309.
- The structure of quarks and leptons. In: Scientific American. April 1983.
- Composite models for quarks and leptons. In: Physics Reports. Volume 104, 1984, pp. 159-179.
- A View from the Eye of the Storm - Terror and Reason in the Middle East. ReganBooks, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-06-083912-3 .
Web links
References
- ↑ According to information on his website, over $ 1 billion in donations were raised during his tenure
- ↑ First celebrity naturalizations decided in three years. In: The press . June 3, 2014, accessed June 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harari, Haim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | חיים הררי (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli elementary particle physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jerusalem |