Moshe Carmeli was the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel and President of the Israel Physical Society.
14 Facts About Moshe Carmeli
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Moshe Carmeli became the first full professor at BGU's new Department of Physics.
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Moshe Carmeli did significant theoretical work in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, general and special relativity, gauge theory, and mathematical physics, authoring 4 books, co-authoring 4 others, and publishing 128 refereed research papers in various journals and forums, plus assorted other publications.
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Moshe Carmeli is most notable for his work on gauge theory and his development of the theory of cosmological general relativity, which extends Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity from a four-dimensional spacetime to a five-dimensional space-velocity framework.
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Moshe Carmeli was twice recognized for outstanding work by the United States Air Force.
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In 1972, Carmeli then returned to Israel as an associate professor of physics at Ben-Gurion University in the newly established Physics Department.
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Moshe Carmeli remained active in research in theoretical physics, as well as becoming involved in science on the world stage.
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Moshe Carmeli was a member of many scientific societies, including the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The New York Academy of Sciences, and was listed in both Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Technology.
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Moshe Carmeli actively refereed and reviewed hundreds of scientific works by noted scientists seeking publication in over a dozen scientific journals.
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Moshe Carmeli was invited four times by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Moshe Carmeli was invited four times by the Wolf Foundation to nominate candidates for the Wolf Prize in Physics.
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Moshe Carmeli took Einstein's theory of general relativity and extended it into five dimensions, adding the radial velocity of galaxies expanding in the Hubble flow as the fifth dimension.
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Moshe Carmeli published his initial special relativistic version of the theory in 1997 in his book Cosmological Special Relativity: The Large-Scale Structure of Space, Time, and Velocity.
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Moshe Carmeli then developed the complete general relativistic theory called cosmological general relativity, publishing several papers on its implications over the next decade.