page_title: List of Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
section_title: Physics and chemistry
hierarchical_section_title: List of Israeli Ashkenazi Jews / Academic figures / Physics and chemistry
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph of Prof. Arieh Warshel, taken at Le Saleve, near Geneva, Switzerland
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, including both original immigrants who obtained Israeli citizenship and their Israeli descendants.
  Although traditionally the term "Ashkenazi Jews" was used as an all-encompassing term referring to the Jews descended from the Jewish communities of Europe, due to the melting pot effect of Israeli society the term "Ashkenazi Jews" gradually becomes more vague as many of the Israeli descendants of the Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants gradually adopted the characteristics of Israeli culture and as more descendants intermarry with descendants of other Jewish communities.
  The list is ordered by category of human endeavor. Persons with significant contributions in two of these are listed in both of them, to facilitate easy lookup.
context_section_description: Yakir Aharonov – physicist, Aharonov–Bohm effect and winner of the 1998 Wolf Prize in Physics
  Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics
  David Deutsch – quantum computing pioneer; 1998 Paul Dirac Prize winner
  Richard Feynman – path integral formation, quantum theory, superfluidity; winner of 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics
  Josef Imry – physicist
  Joshua Jortner – molecular energy; 1988 winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  Aaron Katzir – physical chemistry
  Ephraim Katzir – immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985) and the fourth President of Israel
  Rafi Levine – molecular energy; 1988 winner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry
  Zvi Lipkin – physicist
  Mordehai Milgrom – modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND)
  Yuval Ne'eman – the "Eightfold way"
  Asher Peres – quantum theory
  Alexander Pines – nuclear magnetic resonance; Wolf Prize in Chemistry Laureate (1991)
  Giulio Racah – spectroscopy
  Nathan Rosen – EPR paradox
  Nathan Seiberg – string theory
  Dan Shechtman – chemist; winner of the 1999 Wolf Prize in Physics and Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the discovery of quasicrystals"
  Igal Talmi – particle physics
  Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
  Arieh Warshel – chemist, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and contributed to the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
  Chaim Weizmann – acetone production
caption: Arieh Warshel, 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
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