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Science & Medicine

Mordehai Heiblum

Who

Mordehai Heiblum · Science & Medicine

What

Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Wolf Prize (2025)

When

1947, Holon, Israel

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Mordehai Heiblum is recognized among Israeli contributors to Science & Medicine — Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Wolf Prize (2025)

How & why

An Israeli experimental physicist, Heiblum trained as an electrical engineer, worked at IBM, and in 1990 returned to Israel to found and lead the Braun Center for Submicron Research at the Weizmann Institute. His delicate quantum-electronics experiments gave direct evidence for fractional electric charge and other exotic states of two-dimensional electrons in strong magnetic fields, sharing the 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics. He is Jewish and Israeli.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics

Contributions & Sources

Israeli quantum-electronics experimentalist (Weizmann Institute); Wolf Prize (2025)

2025

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Wolf Prize in Physics