Biography:Joshua Zak

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Short description: Israeli theoretical physicist
Joshua Zak
יהושע זק
Joshua Zak receives the Israel Prize.jpg
Joshua Zak receives the Israel Prize from Israeli Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton
Born1929
OccupationTheoretical physicist
Known forZak transform
AwardsWigner medal (2014)
Israel Prize (2022)

Joshua Zak (Hebrew: יהושע זק‎; born 1929) is an Israeli theoretical physicist and writer known for the Zak transform, Zak phase and the Magnetic Translation Group. He received the 2022 Israel Prize and 2014 Wigner medal. [1][2]

Most cited publications

Honors and awards

  • Wigner Medal (2014)[1]
  • Israel Pprize, for his achievements in physics (2022)[4]
  • The Brown-Zak fermion and the Zak transform are named after him.

Website

https://phsites.technion.ac.il/zak/

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Wigner Medal awarded to Professor Joshua Zak - Physics Department, Technion". https://phys.technion.ac.il/en/about/news/wigner-medal-awarded-to-professor-joshua-zak. 
  2. Avron J, Bohm A, Schulman LS. The Wigner Medal 2014. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2015 Mar 1 (Vol. 597, No. 1, p. 011004). IOP Publishing.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 [1] Google Scholar Author page, Accessed May 30, 2021
  4. phys.technion.ac.il/en/about/news/prof-emeritus-joshua-zak-will-be-awarded-the-2022-israel-prize-in-the-field-of-physics-and-chemistry-research