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Yaron Silberberg

Yaron Silberberg was an Israeli physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science who worked on nonlinear optics, optical solitons and ultrashort laser pulses.

1951 to 2019Nonlinear optics researchOptical solitonsHeading the Crown Photonics Center

Died: 21 April 2019
Occupation: physicist
Education: Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science

Yaron Silberberg was born in 1951 in Givatayim

Yaron Silberberg was born in Givatayim in 1951.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Tel Aviv University in 1972. He then studied applied physics at the Weizmann Institute, finishing a master's degree in 1975 and a doctorate in 1984.

From 1975 to 1979 he served as a physicist in the IDF.

From 1985 to 1994 he was a researcher at Bellcore in New Jersey, where he studied guided-wave optics, optical amplifiers and solitons. In 1994 he returned to the Weizmann Institute as an associate professor and became a full professor in 1999. He headed the Physics of Complex Systems Department from 1999 to 2002, was Dean of Physics from 2002 to 2008, and from 2008 headed the Crown Photonics Center.

He was a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and won the Landau, Max Born, Weizmann and Rothschild prizes. He died in April 2019 and was buried in Rehovot.