birth_place fields birth_date article_title name
berlin , germany physics 04 october 1931 werner israel
 werner israel
werner israel

werner israel , -lrb- born october 4 , 1931 -rrb- is a canadian physicist .
born in berlin , germany and raised in cape town , south africa , he received his b.sc .
in 1951 and his m.sc .
in 1954 from the university of cape town .
he received his ph.d. in 1960 from trinity college , dublin .
in 1990 , together with eric poisson , israel pioneered the study of black hole interiors and , following up a suggestion of roger penrose , discovered the phenomenon of mass inflation -lrb- which should not be confused with inflationary cosmology -rrb- .
he is a fellow in the cosmology programme of the canadian institute for advanced research .
until his retirement in 1996 he was a professor in the department of physics at the university of alberta .
in 1996 he was appointed adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at the university of victoria .
together with stephen hawking , he has coedited two volumes .
