Vittorio Volterra

Born 1930 in Ancona, Italy. Died 1998 in Beer Sheva.

Received his Ph.D. in 1965 from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Spent his PostDoc period in Toronto, Canada and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Between 1969-1972 was Assistant Professor at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Since 1972 at Ben Gurion University, were he started as senior lecturer and became Professor of Physics.

Between 1977 and 1980 he was Chairman of the Physics Department

Aron Lonke

Born 9/9/1931 in Kaunas Lithuania and died in 1989 while attending a conference in Brazil.

In 1958 he came to Israel.

Got his M.Sc. at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Got his Ph.D. from the Technion, Haifa in 1967.

In 1969 he became a member of the Physics Department of the University of the Negev (later renamed Ben Gurion University). He was the first theoretical physicist of the faculty to do full time teaching and research at the University.

Born 18th of January 1949 in Vilnus, Lithuania. Died on the 22nd of March 1999 in Beer Sheva.

Completed his undergraduate studies in Vilnus, and came to Israel in 1979. Continued his studies at Ben Gurion University, and obtained his M.Sc. in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1980.

He held a PostDoc position for two years between1980 and 1983 at the University of Wisconsin in Milwakee and then for a year at The Ben Gurion University. In 1983 was appointed a lecturer at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research.

In 1995 he became Associate Professor in a joint appointment of the Physics Department and the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research.

Moshe Carmeli

Born 1933 in Baghdad, Iraq. Died 2007 in Beer Sheva.

Received his D.Sc. in 1964, from the Technion, Haifa,under the supervision of Nathan Rosen.

Spent his PostDoc period, between 1964 to 1967 at Temple University and at the University of Maryland.

In the year 1967 He was Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland.

between 1967 and 1972 He was researcher, and Senior Researcher at Aerospace Research Laboratory in Ohio.

In 1972 he joint the Physics department at Ben Gurion University. He became Professor in 1974. He was thus the first full Professor in the then new Physics Department.

Between 1973 and 1977 he was Chairman of the Physics Department

He was a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Between 1982 and 1985 He was President of the Israel Physical Society.

Gidon Erez

Born January 3rd 1929 in Ein Harod, Israel. Died 2007 in Beer Sheva.

Received his D.Sc. in 1960, from the Technion, Haifa, under the supervision of Nathan Rosen.

Spent the year 1960/1 at Oxford University, England and then spent the year 1961/2 at the Centre d'etudes Nucleares at Fontenay-aux-Rose, France.

In 1962 he joined the Nuclear Research Center in the Negev. Since 1965 he also taught courses in Physics in Beer Sheva. This was a seed from which eventually the Ben Gurion University developed. He was involved in the planning of the physics curriculum for the future Physics department, from the beginning. In the year 1969/70 he was responsible for the physics curriculum of the pre-University in Beer Sheva. In 1983 he was appointed as a full Professor in the Ben Gurion University.

He is the recipient of The Ernst David Bergmann Prize.