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Native name
  
אהרן קציר

Siblings
  
Ephraim Katzir

Name
  
Aharon Katzir

Awards
  
1961 Israel Prize

Citizenship
  
Israeli


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Full Name
  
Aharon Katchalsky

Born
  
September 15, 1913
Lodz, Poland

Occupation
  
Pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers

Known for
  
Killed in the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre

Died
  
May 30, 1972, Tel Aviv, Israel

Education
  
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Books
  
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Biophy, Biophysics and other topics, Dynamic Patterns of Brain Cell

Similar People
  
Ephraim Katzir, Yitzhak Rabin, Haim Arlosoroff, Yaakov Alperon

Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (September 15, 1914 – May 30, 1972) was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers. He was killed in the Lod Airport massacre in 1972.

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Biography

Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, he adopted his Hebrew surname Katzir.

He was murdered in a terrorist attack at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972 in which 26 people were killed and 80 injured. His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973.

Awards and commemoration

  • In 1961, Katzir was awarded the Israel Prize, in life sciences, together with his pupil, Ora Kedem.
  • The State of Israel issued a postage stamp in memory of Katzir.
  • The Katchalsky crater on the Moon is named after him.
  • A series of Hebrew lectures is held at Tel Aviv University in memory of Katzir, organized by his son Avrahm, a professor of physics. It is named: In the Crucible of the Revolution (BeKur HaMahapecha), alluding to a popular book Katzir wrote about scientific progress. It has featured lectures by Nobel Prize laureates Daniel Kahneman and Aaron Ciechanover, and renowned philosopher Hilary Putnam.
  • A center at the Weizmann Institute of Science is named after Katzir.
  • A scholarship program of the Israeli Ministry of Defense is also named after him.

    • References

    Aharon Katzir Wikipedia
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