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| חיים הררי | |
 Haim Harari | |
| Born | (1940-11-18)November 18, 1940 (age 85) |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics) |
| Occupation | theoretical physicist |
| Known for | President of theWeizmann Institute of Science |
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Haim Harari (Hebrew:חיים הררי; born 18 November 1940) is an Israelitheoretical physicist who has made contributions inparticle physics,science education, and other fields. He was thePresident of theWeizmann Institute of Science from 1988 to 2001.
Haim Harari was born inJerusalem inIsrael. His family has lived in the area which is now Israel for five generations. His parents wereKnesset memberYizhar Harari and Dina Neumann. Harari received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics fromHebrew University of Jerusalem. Harari is married to Elfi. He has three children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He lives at the Weizmann Institute campus in Rehovot, Israel.
In 1967, after completing his Ph.D, he became the youngest professor ever at the Weizmann Institute. He has been the founder and first chairman of the Board (1999-2015) of theDavidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute. Harari is also the founding Chairman (2002-2022) of the Management Committee of the Weizmann Global Endowment Management Trust in New York, an organization managing the endowments of the various independent international bodies supporting the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1979 he was elected as Chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC)[1] of theCouncil of Higher Education, serving two terms until 1985. During his tenure as chairman of the PBC, he established theIsrael Inter-University Computation Center (IUCC) and laid the foundations for the university computernetwork in Israel. He was thePresident, from 1988 to 2001, of theWeizmann Institute of Science. During his presidency, the Weizmann Institute, entirely dedicated to basic research, became one of the leading royalty earning academic research organizations in the world.
Harari has made major contributions to three different fields: particle physics research on the international scene, science education in the Israeli school system and science administration and policy making.
Harari coined the name of thetop andbottomquarks,[2][3] predicted in 1973 by Kobayashi and Maskawa,[4] and made the first complete statement of the standard six quarks and sixleptons model of particle physics (at the Stanford 1975 Lepton-Photon Conference).[2] He also proposed theRishon Model,[5][6] a model for a substructure of quarks and leptons, currently believed to be the most fundamental particles in nature. There is no experimental evidence yet for such substructure.
He is the co-founder (1974) of Perach,[7] a national tutoring and mentoring project in which over 20,000 Israeli undergraduates receive a tuition fellowship in return for devoting four hours per week to a child from an underprivileged socioeconomic background.[8] He also initiated and established in Tel Aviv (1988) a science teaching center "HEMDA", in which high school students perform all their physics studies in advanced laboratories and with highly qualified teachers, instead of pursuing the same in their own schools. Harari has been chairman of both projects, since their founding, until recently.
In 2004 Harari gave a speech entitled "A View from the Eye of the Storm" offering insights into the problems of theMiddle East. He eventually turned it into a book of the same name.
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