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Ora Entin

b. 1943

Israeli physicist

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About Ora Entin

Born 1943. Ora Entin is an Israeli physicist.

Ora Entin-Wohlman is an Israeli condensed matter physicist. She is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Education and career Entin-Wohlman studied mathematics and physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in both in 1965 and a master's degree in physics in 1967. She completed her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University in 1973.

After completing her Ph.D., she became a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, eventually becoming a professor in 1986 and retiring as professor emeritus in 2006. In the same year, she took up a professorship at Ben-Gurion University, where she became professor emeritus in 2013.

Contributions With Amnon Aharony, Entin-Wohlman is the author of Introduction to Solid State Physics (World Scientific, 2018).

Her work with Hamutal Bary-Soroker and Yoseph Imry on persistent currents in resistive conductors has been described as "so simple, yet compelling, that physicists may wonder why no one has thought of it before".

Recognition Entin-Wohlman was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, "for contributions to the theory of granular superconductivity, fractions, strong localization and nonlinear optics in novel materials". She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, as an international honorary member, for her "seminal contributions to a wide range of topics in condensed matter physics theory, including superconductivity, electron and phonon localization, magnetism, nanoscience and spintronics". She is also a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2022, she was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and became an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Education
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University
Employers
Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Awards
Michael Landau Prize
Also known as
Ora Entin-Wohlman

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ora Entin?

Israeli physicist

When was Ora Entin born?

Ora Entin was born on 21 December 1943.

What is Ora Entin's occupation?

Ora Entin is a physicist.

What nationality is Ora Entin?

Ora Entin is Israeli.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ora Entin

· Wikidata: Q23649987

· DBpedia: Ora Entin-Wohlman

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