History
Founded in October 1971 as a collaboration between Tel-Aviv University and the Smithsonian Institution, and named after the late Dr. George S. Wise, the first President of the Tel-Aviv University. The observatory is a research laboratory of Tel-Aviv University. It belongs to the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences and it serves mainly staff and graduate students from the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the School of Physics and Astronomy, and from the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences. Traditionally, the Wise Observatory Director is appointed by Tel-Aviv University's Dean of Exact Sciences from the senior academic staff of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
The directors of the Wise Observatory since its foundation were:
- Uri Feldman (1971-1973)
- Asher Gottesman (1973-1975)
- Dror Sadeh (1975-1977)
- Elia Leibowitz (1977-1980)
- Hagai Netzer (1980-1983)
- Elia Leibowitz (1983-1988)
- Tsevi Mazeh (1988-1990)
- Hagai Netzer (1990-1991)
- Elia Leibowitz (1991-1998)
- Dan Maoz (1998-2000)
- Noah Brosch (2000-2006)
- Tsevi Mazeh (2006-Feb. 2007)
- Noah Brosch (Feb. 2007-2010)
- Tsevi Mazeh (2011-2012)
- Dan Maoz (2012- )
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