1. Benjamin Fain was an Israeli physicist, professor-emeritus, and former refusenik.
16 Facts About Benjamin Fain
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Benjamin Fain instilled in the child a love for science as well as a strong national sentiment.
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Benjamin Fain was named after his grandfather, who was murdered in the Proskurov pogrom.
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Benjamin Fain became a student in the Moscow Institute of Energetics.
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Benjamin Fain was strongly impressed by the historical visit of the first Israeli ambassador to USSR, Golda Meir.
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Benjamin Fain managed to transfer in 1950 to the Faculty of physics in Gorky University.
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Benjamin Fain's instructor was future Nobel Prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg.
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Benjamin Fain successfully started his scientific career, and already in 1965 became a professor in his alma mater.
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Benjamin Fain wrote several scientific books translated into English and German.
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Benjamin Fain took part in refusenik scientific seminar, and in Samizdat.
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Benjamin Fain applied for exit visa to Israel in 1974 and became a refusenik.
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Benjamin Fain became unemployed after dismissal from his work on political grounds.
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In 1976 Benjamin Fain initiated a sociological research on Soviet Jewry.
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Benjamin Fain published his study on Jewish identity of Soviet Jews with the American sociologist Mervin Verbit.
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Benjamin Fain continued to struggle to improve the life of Soviet Jews and continued his scientific work in Tel Aviv University in the fields of quantum electronics, lasers and condensed matter.
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In 2008 Benjamin Fain completed another book in Hebrew: "Law and Providence".