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4 unusual facts about Abraham Katzir


Abraham Katzir

In 1977 he established the Applied Physics Group at Tel Aviv University, which he heads.

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His group at Tel Aviv University developed special fibers made of crystalline silver halides, which are among the few that are highly transparent in the middle-infrared (mid-IR).

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Abraham Katzir (born 1941 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University, holding the Carol and Mel Taub Chair in Applied Medical Physics.

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Each year, Katzir organizes a series of popular lectures, called "In the Crucible of Revolution", in memory of his late father.



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