Joshua Zak
Joshua Zak · Science & Medicine
Physicist; the Zak phase and magnetic translation groups in solids
1929, Vilnius (Wilno), Poland (now Lithuania) — 2024, Israel
Israel (Haifa, Technion) · United States
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Joshua Zak was a theoretical physicist at the Technion known for the Zak transform, the Zak phase (an early example of a geometric/topological phase in crystals) and the magnetic translation group, tools now central to condensed-matter and topological physics. A Holocaust survivor, he helped found the Technion's physics faculty and received the 2022 Israel Prize. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; the Zak phase and magnetic translation groups in solids
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