Haim Harari (born 1940) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields. Theoretical physics employs Mathematical models and Abstractions of Physics in an attempt to explain experimental data taken of the natural world Particle physics is a branch of Physics that studies the elementary constituents of Matter and Radiation, and the interactions between them Science education is the field concerned with sharing Science Content and Process with individuals not traditionally considered part of the scientific community
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Birth and education
Haim Harari was born in Jerusalem in 1940 into a family that had lived in the region for five generations. Jerusalem (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, he-Latn Yerushaláyim; Arabic: ar القُدس, ar-Latn al-Quds) is the His father was Knesset member Yizhar Harari. For Beit Knesset a Jewish Place of worship, see Synagogue. The Knesset (כנסת lit Yizhar Harari (יזהר הררי born 16 July 1908, died 1 February 1978) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician He received his M. Sc. and Ph. D. in Physics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים الجامعة العبرية في القدس abbreviated HUJI) is
Academic Career
After completing his Ph. D, he became the youngest Professor ever at the Weizmann Institute in 1967.
He is currently the Chair of the Board of the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute and Chair of the Management Committee of the Weizmann Global Endowment Management Trust in New York. He was the President, from 1988 to 2001, of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Weizmann Institute of Science (מכון ויצמן למדע known as Machon Weizmann is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. During his presidency, the Weizmann Institute, entirely dedicated to basic research, became one of the leading royalty earning academic research organizations in the world.
Contributions
Haim Harari has made major contributions to three different fields: Particle Physics Research on the international scene, Science Education in the Israeli school system and Science Administration and Policy Making.
His main contributions to particle physics include the first prediction for the top and bottom quarks in 1975 and the first complete statement of the standard six quark and six lepton model of particle physics (at the Stanford 1975 Lepton-Photon Conference). He also proposed the Rishon Model, a model for a substructure of quarks and Leptons, currently believed to be the most fundamental particles in nature. Haim Harari is a physicist who made one of the earliest efforts to develop a Preon model to explain the phenomena appearing in the Standard Model (SM of particle There is no experimental evidence yet for such substructure.
His contributions to education include the establishment of a national tutoring and mentoring project, in which more than 30,000 Israeli undergraduates receive a tuition fellowship in return for devoting four hours per week to a child from an underprivileged socioeconomic background. He also initiated and established a unique science teaching center in which high school students perform all their physics studies in advanced laboratories and with highly qualified teachers, instead of pursuing the same in their own schools. Harari has been chairman of both projects, since their founding.
Award and honors
Harari received three honorary doctorates, many prizes and awards and, in 2001, the rarely awarded Harnack medal from the Max Planck Institute to acknowledge his contribution to the tradition of co-operation between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute. The highest award which is presented by the Max Planck Society for services to society is the Harnack Medal first awarded in 1925 The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e
In 2004 Harari gave a speech entitled "A View from the Eye of the Storm", which caused a worldwide sensation because of its insights into the problems of the Middle East. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. He eventually turned it into a book of the same name.
External links
- http://www.weizmann.ac.il/home/harari/
- http://www.worldthreats.com/middle_east/Haim%20Harari.htm
- Book: A View from the Eye of the Storm-Terror and Reason in the Middle East
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