Weizmann Institute of Science - Distinguished Faculty

Distinguished Faculty

• Oded Goldreich, computer scientist
• Shafrira Goldwasser, two time winner of the Godel Prize (1993 and 2001)
• Haim Harari, theoretical physicist
• David Harel (born 1950), computer scientist
• Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist, fourth President of the State of Israel
• Shneior Lifson, physicist
• Harry J. Lipkin, physicist
• Mordehai Milgrom, physicist
• Chaim L. Pekeris, geophysicist
• Amir Pnueli, computer scientist, Turing Award (1996)
• Adi Shamir, cryptographer, Turing Award (2002)
• Igal Talmi, physicist
• Benjamin Elazari Volcani, discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research.
• Chaim Weizmann, chemist, first President of the State of Israel
• Ada Yonath, crystallographer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)