Shmuel Shtrikman ( October 21, 1930 , Brest-Litovsk - November 11, 2003 , Israel ) - Israeli physicist, professor at the Weizmann Institute , laureate of the Israel Prize .
| Shmuel Shtrikman | |
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| Heb. שמואל שטריקמן | |
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| Date of Birth | October 21, 1930 |
| Place of Birth | Brest-Litovsk |
| Date of death | November 11, 2003 (73 years old) |
| Place of death | Israel |
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| Awards and prizes | (1968) |
Biography
Born in Brest-Litovsk in the family of Abram Shtrikman and Esther Kozlovskaya, brother of Nathan Sharon , nephew of Pinchas Sapir . In 1934 he emigrated with his family to Palestine . He graduated from high school "Geula" in Tel Aviv . During the War of Independence of Israel, he served in aviation, participated in the bombing of Gaza .
After graduating from the Technion in 1954, he began working at the Weizmann Institute (in 1967 he was appointed professor at the institute). In the period from 1981 to 1982, he held the position of head of the department of physics and electronics of this institute. He also led research and taught at the University of Minnesota , Pennsylvania, and California , the Franklin Institute, and Imperial College London .
Among the many topics of theoretical, applied, and experimental physics that Streakman studied, the central place was occupied by the behavior of elementary particles in a magnetic field , liquid crystals, and composite building materials. In these topics, he received 15 inventive patents. In 1957, Shtrikman published a work that made an important contribution to the theory of storing information on magnetic media, and in the early 60s laid the foundation for understanding the characteristics of composite materials with Zvi Hashin . The names of Hashin and Shtrikman are the boundaries of properties in composite materials. The works of Shtrikman in 1962-1968 predicted a previously unknown optical effect - gyrotropic birefringence , experimentally confirmed only in the 80s and since then has been used to observe antiferromagnetic domains . He also contributed to the theory of phase transitions , including three-phase lambda points in magnetic materials. In the last years of Shtrikman’s life, his attention was drawn to the internal mathematical structure of the Far Eastern languages, for the work on which he learned Chinese and Japanese.
In 1994, Shmuel Shtrikman was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Israel . In 2001, he was awarded the Israel Prize in Physics. He also twice won the Israel Security Prize for his contribution to the development of the country's defense systems.
From Rachel Khodorovskaya, Shmuel Shtrikman had three children - daughter Khadas (a chemical scientist) and sons Ilan and Yoram, who became engineers. Shtrickman died of cancer in 2003.
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Links
- Profile on the Israel Prize website (Hebrew)
- Obituary (Hebrew) on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Israel Israel Prizes Archived on July 4, 2019.
- B. Doyle, D. Treves, P. Flanders, S. Shultz, F. Friedlaender, H. Thomas. In Memoriam: Shmuel (Mula) Shtrikman (1930–2003) // IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. - 2004. - Vol. 40, No. 6 . - P. 3441-3442. - DOI : 10.1109 / TMAG.2004.837391 .