Amnon Aharony
Amnon Aharony (Hebrew: אמנון אהרוני; born: 7 January 1943) is an Israeli Professor (Emeritus) of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, Israel and in the Physics Department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. After years of research on statistical physics (critical phenomena, random systems, fractals, percolation), his current research focuses on condensed matter theory, especially in mesoscopic physics and spintronics. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of several other academies. He also received several prizes, including the Rothschild Prize in Physical Sciences, and the Gunnar Randers Research Prize, awarded every other year by the King of Norway.
Amnon Aharony | |
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| Born | 7 January 1943 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Rothschild Prize, Randers prize American Physical Society fellow, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | statistical physics condensed matter theory |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, University of Oslo |
| Thesis | Aspects of time reversal symmetry violation (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Yuval Ne'eman |