page_title: List of Israelis
section_title: Physics and chemistry
hierarchical_section_title: List of Israelis / Academics / Physics and chemistry
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph of Prof. Arieh Warshel, taken at Le Saleve, near Geneva, Switzerland
context_page_description: Israelis are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews, followed by Arabs and other minorities.
context_section_description: Yakir Aharonov – Aharonov–Bohm effect; Wolf Prize in Physics (1998)
  Amiram Barkai – biochemist
  Jacob Bekenstein – black hole thermodynamics; Wolf Prize in Physics (2012)
  David Deutsch – quantum computing pioneer; Paul Dirac Prize (1998)
  Joshua Jortner and Rafi Levine – molecular energy; Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988)
  Josef Imry – physicist
  Aaron Katzir – physical chemistry
  Ephraim Katzir – immobilized enzymes; Japan Prize (1985) The fourth President of Israel List of Presidents of Israel
  Michael Levitt – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011)
  Zvi Lipkin – physicist
  Dan T. Major – professor of chemistry
  Boris Mavashev – seismologist
  Mordehai Milgrom – Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
  Yuval Ne'eman – the "Eightfold way"
  Asher Peres – quantum theory
  Giulio Racah – spectroscopy
  Nathan Rosen – EPR paradox
  Nathan Seiberg – string theory
  Dan Shechtman – quasicrystals; Wolf Prize in Physics (1999), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
  Igal Talmi – nuclear physics
  Reshef Tenne – discovered inorganic fullerenes and inorganic nanotubes
  Arieh Warshel – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
  Chaim Weizmann – acetone production
  Uri Banin – chemist
caption: Nobel Prize winner Arieh Warshel
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