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Science & Medicine

Haim Harari

Who

Haim Harari · Science & Medicine

What

Physicist; particle physics and the rishon model

When

1940, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine

Where

Israel

Biography

Haim Harari is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; particle physics and the rishon model

How & why

Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who proposed the 'rishon model', suggesting that quarks and leptons are built from still more elementary constituents, and who named the top and bottom quarks. He served as president of the Weizmann Institute of Science and led major reforms in Israeli science education. He is a Jewish Israeli, born in Jerusalem into a well-known local family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Physicist; particle physics and the rishon model

1940

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics