Eshel Ben-Jacob ( Hebrew אשל בן-יעקב ; April 13, 1952 , Haifa , Israel - June 5, 2015 , Tel Aviv , Israel) - Israeli physicist , biophysicist, specialist in . Professor of Tel Aviv University, associate professor of Rice University (USA), a foreign member of the American Philosophical Society (2014 [1] [2] ).
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Biography
Grew up in Even Yehuda . He graduated from Tel Aviv University (Bachelor of Physics), where he studied in 1969-1971 and 1974-1975, where he received master's degrees magna cum laude (1978) and Ph.D. summa cum laude (1982) - both in physics and under Yosef Imri , studied there for this from 1975 to 1982. In 1976, he also received a certificate of system analysis at the Technion. In the years 1972-1978. in the service of the Navy. In 1981-1984 Fello Postdoc at University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1984-1989 Assistant Professor, University of Michigan. Since 1986 at Tel Aviv University: initially a senior lecturer, since 1987 an associate professor, since 1992 a full professor of physics; in 1997-2000 head of the department. Also, since 2012, an associate professor of bihimia and cytology at Rice University and an associate professor of medical physics at the Asaf ha-Rofe Medical Center.
In 2001-2004 President of the Israeli Physical Society, before which his vice president since 1998. Fello American Physical Society.
Marked by Landau Prize (1986), Siegle Research Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Israel (1996), Weizmann Prize (2013). Cavalier of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (2008).