Haim Harari

Haim Harari (Hebrew חיים הררי; born November 18, 1940 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli physicist and elementary science organizer.

Life

Harari comes from a family that lives in Palestine since the 19th century. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a diploma degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1965. Harari in 1967 the hitherto youngest professor (associate professor ) at the Weizmann Institute, where he in 1970 a full professorship was awarded in 1999 the institute became a professor. From 1988 to 2001 he was President of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

He has been a visiting scientist and visiting professor at CERN, at Stanford University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Fermilab, the 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 suggested a model of elementary particles, built up in the quarks and leptons of more fundamental building blocks are ( Rishon model).

1972 to 1978 he was Dean of the Graduate School and 1988 to 2001 he was President of the Weizmann Institute, whose funding he strengthened through clever investment policy and fund - raising considerably.

1979 to 1985 he was chairman of the Planning and Budget Committee in the Israeli Council for Higher Education, which distributes inter alia, research funds in Israel and controls the university and school foundations. He stood in 1991/92 the national Israeli Board of Education before and was the founder of the Davidson Institute of Science Education in Rehovot and the Hemda Science Center in Tel Aviv.

He is co-founder of Perach, a scholarship program for students who teach as compensation underprivileged students. The program, approximately 30,000 students participate at the, the Israel Prize was awarded in 2008.

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 Nahostsitutation.

1997 to 2006 he was International Advisory Board of Daimler- Chrysler. Haim Harari is the leader of the six-member Executive Committee, with the founding of the Austrian university in Gugging near Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria ) - was commissioned - present Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA ) called.

Harari is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) since 1979. He won in 1976 the Rothschild prize, the 1989 Israel Prize, the 2004 EMET price, the Order of Merit and the Harnack Medal of the Max Planck Society. In 2011 he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Golden Badge of Honour for Services to the province of Lower Austria. He is four honorary doctorates (including Ben Gurion University, 1987, University of Bordeaux, 1993).

Writings

• Quarks and leptons, Physics Reports, Bd.42, 1978, p.235 -309
• The structure of quarks and leptons, Scientific American, April 1983
• Composite models, in Solvay Congress in 1982, Physics Reports Bd.104, 1984
• A View from the Eye of the Storm - Terror and Reason in the Middle East, new edition in paperback: Rega Books 2010 ISBN 978-0-06-083912-3