- Amikam Aharoni
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name = Amikam Aharoni
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caption = Amikam Aharoni in his office at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
birth_date =August 5 ,1929
birth_place =Safed , Palestine
death_date =January 21 ,2002
death_place =Rehovot ,Israel
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field =Magnetism
work_institution =Weizmann Institute
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footnotes =Amikam Aharoni ( _he. עמיקם אהרוני; 1929-2002) was an
Israel iPhysicist who has made numerous contributions to the fields ofmagnetism .Education
Born in
Safed , Aharoni received a M.A. inPhysics fromHebrew University in 1953 and a Ph.D. inPhysics from theWeizmann Institute in 1957. His thesis was on magnetoresistive memory elements. His postdoc work withJohn Bardeen took him to theUniversity of Illinois during 1958-1959. In 1971-1972, 1977-1978, and 1992 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Metallurgy at theUniversity of Oxford . In 1972 he was promoted to professor in the Department of Electronics atWeizmann Institute , and in 1978 he was appointed the Richard Kronstein Professor of TheoreticalMagnetism .Research
Awards
Distinguished Lecturer of the
IEEE Magnetics Society of 1993.ee also
External links
* [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Physics/ElectricityMagnetism/?view=usa&ci=9780198508090 “Introduction to the Theory of Ferromagnetism” book published by Oxford University Press]
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NAME= Aharoni, Amikam
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH=Safed ,Israel
DATE OF DEATH= 2002
PLACE OF DEATH=Rehovot ,Israel
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