Yakir Aharonov (Hebrew: יקיר אהרונוב; born 1932 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli physicist specializing in Quantum Physics. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California. He is also a distinguished professor in Perimeter Institute. He also serves as a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is president of the Iyar, The Israeli Institute for Adv...
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Yakir Aharonov (Hebrew: יקיר אהרונוב; born 1932 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli physicist specializing in Quantum Physics. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California. He is also a distinguished professor in Perimeter Institute. He also serves as a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is president of the Iyar, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.
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 for which he co-received the 1998 Wolf Prize. In 2009 the information service Thomson Reuters predicted that Aharonov will win the year Nobel prize in physics, based on the influence of his work on quantum physics.
Professor Aharonov received his undergraduate education at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in...
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