- Werner Israel
Werner Israel, OC, FRSC, FRS (born
October 4 ,1931 ) is a Canadian physicist.Born in
Berlin ,Germany and raised inCape Town, South Africa , he received hisB.Sc. in 1951 and hisM.Sc. in 1954 from theUniversity of Cape Town . He received hisPh.D. in 1960 fromTrinity College, Dublin .In 1990, together with
Eric Poisson , Israel pioneered the study of black hole interiors and, following up a suggestion ofRoger Penrose , discovered the important phenomenon ofmass inflation (which should not be confused with inflationary cosmology).He is a Fellow in the cosmology programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Until his retirement in 1996 he was a Professor in the Department of Physics at the
University of Alberta . In 1996 he was appointed Adjunct Professor of physics and astronomy at theUniversity of Victoria . Together withStephen Hawking , he has coedited two important celebratory volumes.Honours
* 1972: Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
* 1986: Fellow of theRoyal Society
* 1993: Officer of theOrder of Canada References
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