Yakir Aharonov

Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist, born in 1932, known for proposing the Aharonov-Bohm effect with David Bohm in 1959 and for developing the theory of weak values in 1988 with David Albert and Lev Vaidman, along with the Aharonov-Casher effect and the two-state vector formalism of quantum mechanics. He is the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the University of South Carolina, and formerly held a distinguished research chair at the Perimeter Institute. He received the Israel Prize in exact science in 1989 and the National Medal of Science in 2009, presented by President Obama, and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2024. He received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1998, shared with Michael Berry.