Yoseph Imry

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Yoseph Imry (2009)

Yoseph Imry (born February 23, 1939 in Tel Aviv ; † May 29, 2018 ) was an Israeli physicist . He was a professor at the Weizmann Institute for Science and was one of the pioneers and founders in the field of mesoscopy physics , which deals with the physical phenomena that occur in the transition area from small atoms to macroscopic objects.

Life

Yoseph Imry's mother came to Israel at the beginning of the century, his father in 1933. His paternal grandfather came to Berlin from eastern Poland for a professional position . The impact of his home on the path to science was significant. His father was a teacher of mathematics , physics and electronics and taught at high school in Rishon LeZion and Ironi Tel Aviv . He began writing a doctoral thesis at the age of 63 but died before it was completed. His mother was a teacher. Other family members were also active in teaching professions. So in the house there was a committed environment for science and knowledge acquisition.

Imry was married. He had two daughters - one is a doctor and the other a musician - and four grandchildren.

Career

Imry began studying physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956, graduating in 1961. After the subsequent compulsory military service, he took up a doctoral degree at the Weizmann Institute for Science in 1963 and received his Ph.D. in 1966. After a post-doctoral research stay at Cornell University from 1967 to 1969, he worked as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University before becoming associate professor there in 1973 and finally full professor in 1977. He taught at Tel Aviv University until 1986 and in the same year switched to the Weizmann Institute of Science as professor. In 2007 he retired.

During his academic career, Imry held numerous visiting professorships and professorships, for example at the University of California (1973–1975), the Brookhaven National Laboratory (1975), Yale University (1985), the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California (1991–2001) and the Lorentz Chair at the University of Leiden (1996). He was also a member of the Commentaries on Solid State Physics from 1985 to 1991, from 1996 to 1999 a member of the editorial board of the journal Physical Review Letters and, until 2001, of the journal Annalen der Physik as well as chairman of the Albert Einstein-Minerva Center for Theoretical Physics at Weizmann -Institute.

Awards

He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg), the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities (Paris) and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities . In 1985 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 2008 a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Publications

Imry has published hundreds of academic articles and book chapters. His book Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics is considered a standard work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yoseph Imry. National Academy of Sciences, accessed May 29, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Judy Siegel-Itzkovich: Weizmann professor among laureates 7 Wolf Prize. In: Jerusalem Post . January 14, 2016, accessed May 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Imry, Yoseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv
DATE OF DEATH 29 May 2018