Daniel Amit

Daniel Amit

Daniel J. Amit (Lodz, Poland, 1938 – Jerusalem, November 4, 2007) was an Israeli physicist and pacifist.

Amit started his scientific activity in particle physics, obtaining a PhD from Brandeis University. He was then active, in the 1970s, in statistical mechanics.[1] In the 1980s he moved on to a more interdisciplinary research including neurosciences. He was professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and professor of Neural Networks in the Department of Physics of the Sapienza University of Rome. Was a leading figure and among founders of the modern theory of neural networks.[2]

Amit was widely known for his engagement for peace,[3] especially between Israel and Palestine.

Amit was naturalized as an Italian citizen in 1999. He took his life in his Jerusalem home on November 4, 2007.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Field Theory, the Renormalization Group, and Critical Phenomena" at World Scientific.
  2. ^ "Modelling Brain Function: The World of Attractor Neural Networks" at Google Books
  3. ^ "The Bankruptcy of American Science": Correspondence between Daniel Amit and a well-known physics journal
  4. ^ Rammal Award 2007

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