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Moshe Carmeli
Personal Details:
Name: Moshe Carmeli
Position: Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Date of Birth: June 15, 1933
Citizenship: Israeli and U.S.A. (dual citizenship)
Marriage: August 17, 1961, to Elisheva Cohen, with 3 children
Address at Work: Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Address and Telephone number at Home: 19 Erez Street, Omer 84965, Israel;
Telephone +972 8 6469359
Education:
| M.Sc. | 1960 | The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; |
| Supervisor: Prof. N. Zeldes | ||
| D.Sc. | 1964 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; |
| Supervisor: Prof. Nathan Rosen |
Fields of Interest:
Cosmology, Astrophysics, General Relativity, Special Relativity,
Gauge Theory, Mathematical Physics.
Employment:
| 1979 - | Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University |
| 1974 - | Professor of Physics, Ben Gurion University |
| 1980-1989 | Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University |
| 1973-1977 | Head, Physics Department, Ben Gurion University |
| 1972-1974 | Associate Professor of Physics, Ben Gurion University |
| 1967-1972 | Research Physicist, US Civil Service, grades GS-13 and |
| GS-14, Aerospace Research Laboratories, Dayton, Ohio, USA | |
| 1967-1968 | Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, |
| Maryland, USA | |
| 1965-1967 | Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA |
| 1965-1967 | Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA |
| 1964-1965 | Visiting Research Associate, Lehigh University and Temple University, |
| Pennsylvenia, USA |
Visiting Professorship:
| Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, U.S.A., 1977-78; Sept.-Oct. 1981. |
| University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A., 1985-86. |
| Institute Henri Poincare, Paris, April 1975. |
| International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Feb.-March 1977; Nov.-Dec. 1978; July 1979; Jan.-Feb. 1980; June-July 1981; Aug.-Sept. 1982; Nov. 1982; March 1985; Sept.-Oct. 1987; Aug.-Sept. 1988. |
| Max-Planck Institue for Astrophysics, Munich, Germany, July-Aug. 1980. |
| University of Massachuesetts, Amherst, U.S.A., January 1985. |
| Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., U.S.A., Aug.- Sept. 1987. |
| Queen Mary College, University of London, May 1988. |
| State University of Campinas, Brazil, Sept.-Oct. 1998. |
Honors and Awards:
President - Israel Physical Society, 1982-1985
Vice-President - Israel Physical Society, 1979-1982
Elected Fellow - American Physical Society, 1972 -
Elected Fellow - American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1977 -
Elected Member - The New York Academy of Sciences, 1980 -
US Air Force Outstanding Awards, 1969, and 1972.
Invited by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences to nominate candidates for the Nobel prize in Physics for the years 1978, 1988, 1994 and 1999.
Invited by the Wolf Foundation to nominate candidates for the Wolf
prize in Physics for the years 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993.
Listed in ``Who's Who in the World," 1995 -
Listed in ``Who's Who in Science and Technology," 1997 -
Professional Societies:
| Referee: The Physical Review; Physical Review Letters; Foundations of Physics; General Relativity and Gravitation; Journal of Mathematical Physics; International Journal of Theoretical Physics; Il Nuovo Cimento; Classical and Quantum Gravity; Annals of Physics; National Science Foundation of the U.S.A.; National Research Council of Canada; US-Israel Binational Science Foundation |
| Reviewer: Mathematical Reviews (published over 200 reviews) |
| Member: General Editorial Board of the Weitzmann Science Press of Israel (publisher of Israel's scientific journals), 1978-80; Editorial Board, Communications in Theoretical Physics, 1991 - |
Ph.D. and M.Sc. Supervision:
| Ph.D. | |
| 1. M. Kaye (finished 1979) | |
| 2. Ch. Charach (joint supervision with S. Malin; finished 1980) | |
| 3. Kh. Huleihil (finished 1984) | |
| 4. A. Feinstein (finished 1987 with excellence) | |
| 5. N. Nissani (finished 1987 with excellence) | |
| M.Sc. | |
| 1. Ch. Charach (finished 1976) | |
| 2. Kh. Huleihil (joint supervision with S. Malin; finished 1979) | |
| 3. N. Nissani (finished 1983) | |
| 4. A. Feinstein (finished 1983) |
