Moshe Carmeli | |
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Born | June 15, 1933 |
Died | September 27, 2007 |
Citizenship | Dual: Israeli and United States |
Occupation(s) | Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel |
Known for | Gauge theory, cosmological general relativity |
Spouse | Elisheva |
Children | 3 |
Academic background | |
Education | Master of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Doctor of Science, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
Doctoral advisor | Nathan Rosen |
Other advisors | N. Zeldes |
Website | Website |
Moshe Carmeli (Hebrew: משה כרמלי, 1933–2007) was the Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics, Ben Gurion University (BGU), Beer Sheva, Israel and President of the Israel Physical Society.[1] He received his D.Sc. from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in 1964.[1] He became the first full professor at BGU's new Department of Physics.[2] He did significant theoretical work in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, general and special relativity, gauge theory, and mathematical physics, authoring 4 books, co-authoring 4 others, and publishing 128 refereed research papers in various journals and forums, plus assorted other publications (146 in all).[1] He is most notable for his work on gauge theory and his development of the theory of cosmological general relativity, which extends Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity from a four-dimensional spacetime to a five-dimensional space-velocity framework.