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Yosef Imry

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Yosef Imry · Science & Medicine

What

Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Wolf Prize (2016)

When

1939, Mandatory Palestine — 2018

Where

Israel

Prizes and awards
Biography

Yosef Imry is recognized among Israeli contributors to Science & Medicine — Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Wolf Prize (2016)

How & why

Imry, an Israeli Jewish physicist at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute, was the principal founder of mesoscopic physics — the study of systems between the atomic and everyday scales that underpins nanoscience and nanotechnology. He received the Israel Prize (2001) and the Wolf Prize in Physics (2016).

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

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Israeli father of mesoscopic physics; Wolf Prize (2016)

2016

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