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Ora Entin-Wohlman

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Professor
Ora Entin-Wohlman
Born (1943-12-21) 21 December 1943 (age 80)
CitizenshipIsraeli
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
InstitutionsTel Aviv University \ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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.[1]

Education and career

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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.[2]

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.[2]

Contributions

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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".[3]

Recognition

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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".[4] 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".[5] She is also a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[6] In 2022, she was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities[7] and became an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Prof. Ora Entin | Faculty of Exact Sciences Raymond & Beverly Sackler", en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il, retrieved 2022-03-01
  2. ^ a b Faculty profile (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv University, retrieved 2020-03-18
  3. ^ Bouchiat, Hélène (July 2008), "New clues in the mystery of persistent currents", Physics, 1, Article 7, Bibcode:2008PhyOJ...1....7B, doi:10.1103/physics.1.7
  4. ^ "APS Fellowship: 1993", Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-03-18
  5. ^ Ora Entin-Wohlman, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2020-03-18
  6. ^ Utenlandske medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-18
  7. ^ The General Assembly of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities elects ten new members, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 23 June 2022, retrieved 2022-06-23
  8. ^ "Honorary Fellows: Professor Ora Entin-Wohlman". Institute of Physics.
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