Ora Entin-Wohlman

Ora Entin-Wohlman is an Israeli condensed matter physicist. She is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and a professor of physics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Education and career

Entin-Wohlman studied mathematics and physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning a bachelor's degree in both in 1965 and a master's degree in physics in 1967. She completed her Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University in 1973.[1]

After completing her Ph.D., she became a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, eventually becoming a professor in 1986 and retiring as professor emeritus in 2006. In the same year, she took up a professorship at Ben-Gurion University.[1]

Contributions

With Amnon Aharony, Entin-Wohlman is the author of Introduction to Solid State Physics (World Scientific, 2018).

Her work with Hamutal Bary-Soroker and Yoseph Imry on persistent currents in resistive conductors has been described as "so simple, yet compelling, that physicists may wonder why no one has thought of it before".[2]

Recognition

Entin-Wohlman was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993, "for contributions to the theory of granular superconductivity, fractions, strong localization and nonlinear optics in novel materials".[3] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, as an international honorary member, for her "seminal contributions to a wide range of topics in condensed matter physics theory, including superconductivity, electron and phonon localization, magnetism, nanoscience and spintronics".[4] She is also a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5]

References
  1. Faculty profile (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv University, retrieved 2020-03-18
  2. Bouchiat, Hélène (July 2008), "New clues in the mystery of persistent currents", Physics, 1, Article 7, doi:10.1103/physics.1.7
  3. "APS Fellowship: 1993", Division of Condensed Matter Physics, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-03-18
  4. Ora Entin-Wohlman, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2020-03-18
  5. Utenlandske medlemmer, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-18
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