Yakir Aharonov

Education:

1956   B.Sc., Technion, Haifa, Israel
1960   Ph.D.,  Bristol University, England

Employment:

1960-1961   Research Associate, Brandeis University
1961-1964    Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University
1964-1967    Associate Professor, Yeshiva University
1967-1973   Professor, Tel Aviv University and Yeshiva University (Joint appointment)
1973 - present   Professor, Tel Aviv University and University of South Carolina (Joint position)

Honors:

-   Elected Fellow American Physical Society, 1981
-    Weizmann Prize in Physics, 1984
-   Rothschild Prize in Physics, 1984
-   Chair in Theoretical Physics, University of South  Carolina
-   Miller Research Professorship award at Berkeley  1988-1989
-   The Alex Maguy-Glass Chair in Theoretical Physics, Tel Aviv University
-   The Israel National Prize in Physics,  1989
-   Elected to the National Academy of Science of Israel,  1990
-   Elliot Cresson Medal, 1991
-   Honorary Doctor  of Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 1992
-    Elected Member of National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A, 1993
-    Honorary Doctor of Science, University of South Carolina, 1993
-    The Distinguished Scientist Governor Award of South Carolina, 1993
-   Hewlett-Packard  Europhysics Prize, 1995
-   Honorary Doctor of Science,  Bristol University, 1997
-   Wolf Prize in Physics, 1998
-   Honorary Doctor of University of Buenos Aires, 1999
-   Van Vleck Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 2000