Yakir Aharonov
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Doctoral advisor | David Bohm |
Doctoral students | David Albert Avshalom Elitzur Lev Vaidman Sandu Popescu |
Yakir Aharonov (
Biography
Yakir Aharonov was born in
Married to Nily, an educational psychologist, and father of two. His brother,
Academic career
His research interests are nonlocal and topological effects in quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and interpretations of quantum mechanics. In 1959, he and David Bohm proposed the Aharonov–Bohm effect[6] for which he co-received the 1998 Wolf Prize.[7]
In 1988, Aharonov, David Albert, and Lev Vaidman published their theory of weak values.[8] This work was motivated by Aharonov's long-time quest to experimentally verify his theory that apparently random events in quantum mechanics are caused by events in the future (two-state vector formalism). Verifying a present effect of a future cause requires a measurement, which would ordinarily destroy coherence and ruin the experiment. He and his colleagues claim that they were able to use weak measurements and verify the present effect of the future cause.[9] Working with Aharon Casher, they predicted the Aharonov–Casher effect, the electrodynamic dual of the Aharonov–Bohm effect with magnetic dipoles and charges.[2]
Timeline
- 1960–1961: Research Associate, Brandeis University
- 1961–1964: Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University
- 1964–1967: Associate Professor, Yeshiva University
- 1967–1973: Joint professorship at Tel Aviv University and Yeshiva University
- 1973–2006: Joint professorship at Tel Aviv University and the University of South Carolina
- 2006–2008: Professor at George Mason University
- 2008–present: Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University
Awards and recognition
- 1978: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society[10]
- 1984: Weizmann Prize in Physics
- 1984: Rothschild Prize in Physics[2]
- 1989: Israel Prize in exact science[11][2]
- 1990: Elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 1991: The Franklin Institute[2]
- 1992: Honorary Doctor of Science, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- 1993: Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 1993: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of South Carolina, USA
- 1995: Hewlett–Packard Europhysics Prize
- 1997: Honorary Doctor of Science, Bristol University, UK
- 1998: Wolf Prize in Physics with Michael Berry[12][2]
- 1999: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2009: Selected Clarivate Citation laureate in Physics with Michael Berry.[13]
- 2006: Exact Science
- In 2009, the information service Nobel prize in physics, based on his work's influence on quantum physics.[14]
- 2010: National Medal of Science (2009), awarded and presented by President Barack Obama[15]
See also
References
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