Harry Zvi Tabor

Harry Zvi Tabor (7 March 1917 – 15 December 2015) was a British-born Israeli physicist. He was known as the father of Israeli solar energy.BGU shields its eyes and stares into the solar future, Ehud Zion Waldoks, The Jerusalem Post, 2 November 2008.Bright ideas , Ehud Zion Waldoks, The Jerusalem Post, 1 October 2008.  Tabor was also involved in bringing Israel's solar energy program to international awareness.Harry Zvi Tabor, Cleveland Cutler, Encyclopedia of the Earth, 2007.

Tabor was born in London. He died in Jerusalem on 15 December 2015 at the age of 98.

 Awards and recognition 
 1975 – Royal Society Energy Award
 1979 – Inducted in Solar Hall of Fame
 1981 – International Solar Energy Society Award
 1981 – Krupp Foundation Energy Award
 1994 – Passive Low Energy Architecture International Award
 1995 – Israeli Knesset Quality of Life Award
 2014 – Israeli President's Medal of Distinction

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Category:1917 births
Category:2015 deaths
Category:British Jews
Category:Israeli Jewish scientists
Category:Israeli physicists
Category:Naturalized citizens of Israel
Category:British physicists
Category:Scientists from London
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni