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)

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