Yakir Aharonov
Yakir Aharonov · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
1932, Haifa, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
Israel · United Kingdom · United States
Yakir Aharonov is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
An Israeli Jew born in Haifa, Aharonov, working with David Bohm, predicted the Aharonov–Bohm effect (1959): a charged particle is measurably affected by electromagnetic potentials even where the fields themselves vanish, proving those potentials are physically real, not mere mathematical bookkeeping. He later developed the theory of weak measurement. He is Jewish.
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Physicist; co-discovered the Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum mechanics
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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