Avshalom Elitzur

Avshalom Elitzur
Elitzur in 2019
Born (1957-05-31) May 31, 1957 (age 67)
Pahlavi Iran
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTel Aviv University (Ph.D.)
AwardsNoetic Medal (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum mechanics
Institutions
Thesis Time's Passage and the Time-Asymmetries  (1999)
Doctoral advisorYakir Aharonov
Websitewww.a-c-elitzur.com
Avshalom Elitzur, 2009.

Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur (Hebrew: אבשלום כורש אליצור), born 30 May 1957, is an Iranian-born Israeli physicist and philosopher.[1]

Biography

Avshalom Elitzur was born in Kerman, Iran, to a Jewish family. When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Rehovot. He left school at the age of sixteen and began working as a laboratory technician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. Elitzur received no formal university training before obtaining his PhD. Elitzur had a relationship with journalist Timura Lessinger, with whom he has a daughter.

Academic career

Elitzur was a senior lecturer at the Unit for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester experiment in quantum mechanics, which was publicised by Roger Penrose in his book Shadows of the Mind.

In 1987, he published Into the Holy of Holies: Psychoanalytic Insights into the Bible and Judaism. That year, he was invited to present an unpublished manuscript on quantum mechanics at an international conference in Temple University in Philadelphia. He was later invited by Yakir Aharonov of Tel Aviv University, to write a doctoral thesis on the subject. He was the chief editor of natural sciences in Encyclopaedia Hebraica. In 2008, he was a visiting professor at Joseph Fourier University.

Elitzur is the founder of Iyar, the Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.[2]

Award and recognitions

Noetic medal of Consciousness and Brain Research

In 2010, Elitzur won the Noetic Medal of Consciousness and Brain Research for his contributions to the cosmology of the mind and Quantum Theory.[3]

Published works

Author

  • לפני ולפנים - עיונים פסיכואנליטיים במקרא וביהדות, תל אביב, "ירום"-אליצור, 1987
  • זמן ותודעה - תהיות חדשות על חידות עתיקות, אוניברסיטה משודרת, 1994,

Editor

  • 'Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective', edited by Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur and Metod Saniga; Germany, Bielefeld, 2005 ISBN 978-981-256-509-9
  • 'Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?' (The Frontiers Collection), by A. Elitzur (Editor), S. Dolev (Editor), N. Kolenda (Editor); New York: Springer, 2005 ISBN 3-540-22188-3
  • 'Mind and its Place in the World: Phenomenology & Minds', Vol. 7 (Phenomenology & Mind) by Alexander Batthyany (Editor), Avshalom Elitzur (Editor), Ontos Verlag, 2006 ISBN 978-3-937202-98-3
  • 'Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness', Herausgegeben von Batthyany, Alexander / Elitzur, Avshalom (Editors), Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2009

References

  1. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  2. ^ Iyar, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research (English) Archived October 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ The 2010 Noetic Medal awarded to Israeli Physicist Avshalom C. Elitzur