Nathan Aviezer

Nathan Aviezer was born in 1938

Aviezer was born in Switzerland and moved to the United States as a child. He had a religious upbringing and took part in the Bnei Akiva youth movement.

He earned his bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University and his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He then did research at the University of Illinois in the group of John Bardeen, and later worked at the IBM research center near New York.

In 1967, after the Six-Day War broke out, he moved to Israel with his wife Dvora and settled in Petah Tikva. He joined Bar-Ilan University, became a professor in 1972 and headed the Physics Department from 1980 for 3 terms. His research is in solid state physics, including work with Moshe Kaveh on the resistance of metals at low temperatures.

Aviezer writes on Torah and science, rejecting creationism and reading the 6 days of creation as long periods of time. His books include In the Beginning and Fossils and Faith, and he teaches a course on the subject at Bar-Ilan. In 2011 he released an animated film based on his books.