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Eshel Refael Ben-Jacob Breslav | |
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 April 1956 / July 2011 | |
| Born | April 13, 1952 |
| Died | June 5, 2015 (aged 63)[1] |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University (B. Sc., M.Sc. and PhD) |
| Known for | Pattern formation and self-organization, swarm intelligence, systems neuroscience: creation of the first hybrid neuro-memory-chip |
| Awards | Landau Research Prize (1986)[1], The Siegle Research Prize of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1996) [2]Weizmann Prize in Exact Sciences (2013),[3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Biological Physics, Complexity and Biocomplexity |
| Institutions | University of Michigan (1984–1989) Tel Aviv University (1986–2015) |
| Notes | |
Vice President (1998–2001) and President (2001–2004) of the Israel Physical Society. Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della solidarietà Italiana (Since 2008). | |
Eshel Ben-Jacob (full name Eshel Refael Ben-Jacob Breslav;[2] Hebrew: אשל רפאל בן-יעקב 13 April 1952 – 5 June 2015), was a theoretical and experimental physicist at Tel Aviv University, holder of the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems, and Fellow of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) at Rice University. During the 1980s he became a leader in the theory of self-organization and pattern formation in open systems, later extending this work to adaptive complex systems and biocomplexity. In the late 1980s, he turned to study of bacterial self-organization, He developed new pattern forming bacteria species, becoming a pioneer in the study of bacterial intelligence and social behaviors of bacteria.
- ^ "Rice mourns loss of physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob". Rice University News & Media. Archived from the original on 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ Rabbi Nachman of Breslov