Aharon_Katzir
Aharon Katzir
Israeli scientist
Aharon Katzir (Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן קָצִיר; born Aharon Katchalsky; September 15, 1914 – May 30, 1972)[1] was an Israeli scientist who was known as a pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers.
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אַהֲרֹן קָצִיר | |
Born | Aharon Katchalsky (1914-09-15)September 15, 1914 |
Died | May 30, 1972(1972-05-30) (aged 57) Lod Airport, Central District, Israel |
Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
Citizenship | Israeli |
Occupation | Pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers |
Relatives | Ephraim Katzir (brother) |
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Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, he adopted his Hebrew surname Katzir. He was a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel as well as at the department of medical physics and biophysics at UC Berkeley, California.
He was murdered in a terrorist attack at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972 in which 26 people were killed and 80 injured.[2] His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973.
- In 1961, Katzir was awarded the Israel Prize, in life sciences, together with his pupil, Ora Kedem.[3]
- The State of Israel issued a postage stamp in memory of Katzir.
- The Katchalsky crater on the Moon is named after him.
- A series of Hebrew lectures is held at Tel Aviv University in memory of Katzir, organized by his son Avrahm, a professor of physics. It is named: In the Crucible of the Revolution (BeKur HaMahapecha), alluding to a popular book Katzir wrote about scientific progress. It has featured lectures by Nobel Prize laureates Daniel Kahneman and Aaron Ciechanover, and philosopher Hilary Putnam.[4]
- A center at the Weizmann Institute of Science is named after Katzir, as well as public schools in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.[5]
- A scholarship program of the Israeli Ministry of Defense is also named after him.
- Katchalsky, Aharon; Curran, Peter F. (1965). Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Biophysics. Harvard University Press.
- "Weizmann Institute of Science Archives". Archived from the original on 2013-02-18.
- "Israel Prize recipients in 1961 (in Hebrew)". cms.education.gov.il (Israel Prize official website). Archived from the original on March 7, 2012.
- BeKur HaMahapecha Lectures Archived 2008-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- "The Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Center | Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky Center". www.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2024-01-22.