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Yoseph Imry

1939 – 2018

Israeli physicist

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About Yoseph Imry

Lived 1939 – 2018 (aged 79). Yoseph Imry was an Israeli physicist and university teacher.

Yoseph Imry (; born 23 February 1939 – 29 May 2018) was an Israeli physicist.

He was best known for taking part in the foundation of mesoscopic physics, a relatively new branch of condensed matter physics. It is concerned with how the behavior of systems whose size is in between micro- and macroscopic, crosses over between these two regimes. These systems can be handled and addressed by more or less usual macroscopic methods, but their behavior may still show quantum effects.

Awards and honours In 1996, 2001 and 2016, Imry received the Rothschild Prize, Israel Prize and Wolf Prize in physics, respectively. Imry was the 1996 Lorentz Professor at Leiden University.

He was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg), the European Academy of Sciences, Sciences and Humanities (Paris), the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Education
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IBM, Weizmann Institute of Science
Employers
Weizmann Institute of Science, Leiden University, Tel Aviv University
Awards
Israel Prize; Wolf Prize in Physics; Fellow of the American Physical Society; The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture; Rothschild Prize

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Yoseph Imry's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Yoseph Imry?

Israeli physicist (1939-2018)

When was Yoseph Imry born?

Yoseph Imry was born on 23 February 1939 in Tel Aviv.

When did Yoseph Imry die?

Yoseph Imry died on 29 May 2018 in Israel.

What was Yoseph Imry's occupation?

Yoseph Imry was a physicist and university teacher.

What nationality was Yoseph Imry?

Yoseph Imry was Israeli.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yoseph Imry

· Wikidata: Q8055953

· DBpedia: Yoseph Imry

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