1. Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields.
15 Facts About Haim Harari
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Haim Harari was the President of the Weizmann Institute of Science from 1988 to 2001.
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Haim Harari's family has lived in the area which is Israel for five generations.
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Haim Harari's parents were Knesset member Yizhar Harari and Dina Neumann.
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Haim Harari has three children, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
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Haim Harari has been the founder and first chairman of the Board of the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute.
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Haim Harari was the President, from 1988 to 2001, of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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Haim Harari has made major contributions to three different fields: particle physics research on the international scene, science education in the Israeli school system and science administration and policy making.
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Haim Harari coined the name of the top and bottom quarks, predicted in 1973 by Kobayashi and Maskawa, and made the first complete statement of the standard six quarks and six leptons model of particle physics.
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Haim Harari proposed the Rishon Model, a model for a substructure of quarks and leptons, currently believed to be the most fundamental particles in nature.
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Haim Harari is the co-founder of Perach, a national tutoring and mentoring project in which over 20,000 Israeli undergraduates receive a tuition fellowship in return for devoting four hours per week to a child from an underprivileged socioeconomic background.
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Haim Harari initiated and established in Tel Aviv a science teaching center "HEMDA", in which high school students perform all their physics studies in advanced laboratories and with highly qualified teachers, instead of pursuing the same in their own schools.
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Haim Harari has been chairman of both projects, since their founding, until recently.
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In 2004 Haim Harari gave a speech entitled "A View from the Eye of the Storm" offering insights into the problems of the Middle East.
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Haim Harari eventually turned it into a book of the same name.