Mordehai Heiblum

Mordehai Heiblum, also known as Moty Heiblum, is an Israeli physicist working in electrical engineering and condensed matter physics, born in 1947, recognized for demonstrating the fractional charge of the fractional quantum Hall effect and for measuring thermal conductance quantum properties through pioneering experimental techniques revealing novel quantum electronic phenomena in mesoscopic systems. He received the IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 1986, the Rothschild Prize in Physics in 2008, the EMET Prize in 2013 and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize in 2021, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2025, shared with Jainendra K. Jain and James P. Eisenstein, for laying the foundation to the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect.