Amnon Aharony

Amnon Aharony was born in 1943 in Jerusalem

Amnon Aharony was born in Jerusalem on 7 January 1943 and grew up in Netanya. He earned a B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 and an M.Sc. there in 1965 under Gideon Rakavy. He completed his doctorate at Tel Aviv University in 1972 under Yuval Ne'eman, on time reversal symmetry violation.

From 1965 to 1972 he was a senior researcher in the Israeli army and the Ministry of Defense, while also teaching at Tel Aviv University. He then did postdoctoral work at Cornell University with Michael Fisher, and at Harvard, the University of California, San Diego and Bell Laboratories.

He returned to Israel in 1975 as an associate professor at Tel Aviv University and became a full professor in 1979. He retired as professor emeritus in 2006 and joined Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was also an adjunct professor at the University of Oslo and a visiting scientist at many institutions abroad.

His research covered critical phenomena, random systems, fractals and percolation, and later quantum magnetism, mesoscopic physics and spintronics. A symmetry in the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction carries his name. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and has received the Rothschild Prize.