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About Haim Harari
Haim Harari חיים הררי (born 18 November 1940) is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields.
Birth and education
Haim Harari was born in Jerusalem in 1940 into a family that had lived in the region for five generations. His father was Knesset member Yizhar Harari and his mother was Dina born Neumann. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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. 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.
Harari coined the name of the top and bottom quarks, predicted in 1973 by Kobayashi and Maskawa, and made the first complete statement of the standard six quarks and six leptons 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. There is no experimental evidence yet for such substructure.
In the field of education, Harari served as a Dean of the Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute (1972-1978), and was a co-Founder of “Perach”, a national tutoring program for underprivileged children in Israel, currently involving 32,000 undergraduates, helping a similar number of children. He served as Chairman of both the Planning and Grants Committee of Israel’s Council for Higher Education (1979-85) and the board of Israel Center of Science and Technology Education (1995-98). In 1991-2 he chaired the National Panel on Science Education, leading to a report, which has become the blueprint for science education in Israel's schools. He initiated and led the establishment of several unique educational Institutions, including the Davidson institute of Science education and the Hemda Science Center in Tel Aviv.
Award and honors
Harari's honors include, among others:
- membership in the Israel Academy of Sciences (1978);
- membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010);
- the Rothschild Prize in Physics (1976);
- the Israel Prize, in the exact sciences (1989);[7]
- the EMET Prize in Education (2004);[8]
- several honorary doctorates;
- the "Commander Cross of the Order of Merit" presented by the President of Germany;
- the "Cross of Honor, Science and Art, First Class" presented by Austria;
- the Golden cross of honor for service to the land of Lower Austria (2011); and
- the rarely-awarded Harnack medal from the Max Planck Institute (2001), to acknowledge his contribution to the tradition of co-operation between the Max Planck Society and the Weizmann Institute.
He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of SwissRe and served for a decade on the International Advisory Board of Daimler-Chrysler. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Weizmann Global Endowment Management Trust in New York and of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Institute of Science and Technology – Austria. He also serves as a chairman or member of various additional Boards of academic and educational organizations.
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. He eventually turned it into a book of the same name.
Books: A View from the Eye of the Storm: Terror and Reason in the Middle East, HarperCollins, 2005.
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Haim Harari's Timeline
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November 18, 1940
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Jerusalem, Israel
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