Prof. Judah Eisenberg - CV

Born:

Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., December 17, 1938.

Immigrated to Israel:

August 1975.

Education:

• A.B. (magna cum laude with distinction in physics), Columbia University, 1958.
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.

Primary area of research activity:

Theoretical nuclear physics.

Experience:

• CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1961.
• Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, 1962–1965.
• Sir Thomas Lyle Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, summer, 1965.
• Associate Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, 1965–1968.
• Professor of Physics, University of Virginia, 1968–1975.
• Visiting Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University, 1969.
• Chairman, Department of Physics, University of Virginia, 1970–1974.
• Incumbent, Giulio Racah Chair of Theoretical Physics as Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1974–1975.
• Incumbent, Francis Henry Smith Chair of Physics, University of Virginia, 1975–1976.
• Professor of Physics, Tel Aviv University, 1975–1998.
• Incumbent, Yuval Ne'eman Chair in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Tel Aviv University, 1983–1998.
• Dean, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 1984–1986.
• Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1991–1992.
• Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University, 1998.

Societies and honors:

• Phi Beta Kappa
• National Science Foundation Fellow, 1958–1962
• Sigma Xi
• NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, 1965
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Member, Israel Physical Society
• Honorary degree:
• Dr. rer. nat. (h.c.), University of Frankfurt, 1985.

Other professional activities:

• Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1972–1998.
• Member, Program Advisory Committee, Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility, 1972–1975.
• Chairman, Gordon Conference on Photonuclear Physics, 1974.
• Member, Editorial Council, Annals of Physics, 1980–1995.
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Physics G, 1985–1989.
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Physics E, 1986–1998.
• Member, Editorial Board, Modern Physics Letters A, 1986–1998.
• Chairman, Committee of Judges, Landau Prize, 1981–1983.
• Member, Committee of Judges, Weizmann Prize, 1983.
• Chairman, Committee on Research Awards in the Exact Sciences of the Israeli Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1988–1991.
• Chairman, Workshop on Parton Production and Transport, European Centre for Theoretical Nuclear Physics and Related Areas, Trento, Italy, 1994.

Thesis supervision:

Guidance of roughly 20 M. Sc. students and roughly 20 doctoral students at the University of Virginia, Hebrew University (in collaboration with Professor A. Gal), and Tel Aviv University.