51 Notable alumni of Weizmann Institute of Science
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked #353 in the world and #4 in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Weizmann Institute of Science sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Weizmann Institute of Science won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Shlomo Margel
1945-. (aged 81)
university teacher
chemist
Shlomo Margel is a Professor of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University specializing in polymers, biopolymers, functional thin films, encapsulation, surface chemistry, nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology and agro-nanotechnology.
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2. Hagit Eldar-Finkelman
researcher
Hagit Eldar-Finkelman is an Israeli scientist and a principal investigator of an active research laboratory at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Eldar-Finkelman’s research is focused on the signal transduction field and drug development targeting protein kinases. She is well known for her pioneering work on the functions of GSK-3 and its contribution to diabetes and other...
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3. Lia Addadi
1950-. (aged 76)
biochemist
Lia Addadi is a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She works on crystallization in biology, including biomineralization, interactions with cells, and crystallization in cell membranes. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2017 for “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”, and the American Philosophical Society (2020).
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4. Varda Rotter
1947-. (aged 79)
biologist
molecular biologist
Varda Rotter is a German-born-Israeli cancer researcher.
5. Ron Folman
1963-. (aged 63)
physicist
researcher
Ron Folman, is an Israeli quantum physicist and social activist. He works at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) where he heads the Atom Chip group. He is the author of the book The Human Test.
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6. Zvi HaCohen
1947-. (aged 79)
researcher
chemist
Prof. Zvi HaCohen is an Israeli scientist who, since August 2010, has served as Rector of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) until 2018.
7. Oded Béjà
1964-. (aged 62)
microbiologist
Oded Béjà is a professor in the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, in the field of marine microbiology and metagenomics.
8. Yuval Golan
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
materials scientist
Yuval Golan is an Israeli materials scientist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Golan, a professor of materials engineering, studies materials at the nanoscale level and focuses on their synthesis, characterization and applications. Golan is the Director of the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and chairman of the synchrotron committee of the Israeli Academy of Sciences...
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9. Zvi Wiener
economist
Zvi Wiener is a Professor of Finance and the former dean of the Hebrew University Business School Business administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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10. Yitzhak Mastai
1966-. (aged 60)
university teacher
chemist
Yitzhak Mastai is a chemistry professor at Bar Ilan University, specializing in chirality at the nanoscale and in nanotechnology.
11. Miron Livny
1950-. (aged 76)
computer scientist
Miron Livny is a senior researcher and professor specializing in distributed computing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Livny has been a professor of computer science at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the HTCondor high-throughput computing system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project, Director of the Center for...
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12. Ohad Birk
1957-. (aged 69)
scientist
Ohad Birk a physician-scientist, is a professor of human genetics, converging basic scientific research with effective clinical translational applications. Birk's research lab deciphered the molecular basis and mechanism of more than 30 human diseases, including some of the most prevalent severe hereditary diseases in Arabs and in Jews, as well as three syndromes named after Birk. He also implemented his...
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13. Kinneret Keren
1972-. (aged 54)
basketball player
physicist
Kinneret Keren is an Israeli biophysicist and nanotechnologist whose research has involved the biology-based self-assembly of molecular electronics using DNA as a template, as well as the movement of biological cells, pattern formation, and morphogenesis in biology and synthetic biology. She is a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
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14. Robert H. Singer
1945-. (aged 81)
biologist
Dr. Robert H. Singer received an undergraduate degree in physical chemistry from Oberlin College, and a PhD in developmental biology from Brandeis University. He did postdoctoral work in molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Oberlin College granted Singer an Honorary Doctor of Science in 2016. The Hebrew University of...
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15. Doron Lancet
1948-. (aged 78)
geneticist
immunologist
Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist. He is the Ralph D. and Lois R. Silver Professor of Human Genomics and head of the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is known for researching the genetic basis of olfaction, for developing the human genetics database GeneCards, and for his work on Abiogenesis and the development...
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16. Karen Avraham
1962-. (aged 64)
Faculty of Medicine
geneticist
dean
Karen B. Avraham is an Israeli-American human geneticist and the first female Dean of Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University. Born in Canada in 1962, Avraham moved to the US at a young age. Her research focuses on the discovery and characterization of genes responsible for hereditary hearing loss.
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17. Asya Rolls
1975-. (aged 51)
researcher
Asya Rolls is an Israeli psychoneuroimmunologist and International Howard Hughes Medical Institute- Wellcome trust researcher (2018-2023). She is a Professor at the Faculty of Life Scielces in Tel Aviv University. Until 2024, she was a Professor at the Rappaport medical school at the Israel Institute of Technology. Rolls leads a lab that explores how the nervous system affects immune responses...
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18. Yehuda Lindell
1971-. (aged 55)
cryptographer
Yehuda Lindell is an Israeli professor in the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University where he conducts research on cryptography with a focus on the theory of secure computation and its application in practice. Lindell currently leads the cryptography team at Coinbase.
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19. Amnon Albeck
1958-. (aged 68)
university teacher
chemist
Amnon Albeck is an organic and bioorganic chemist.
20. Achi Brandt
1938-. (aged 88)
mathematician
university teacher
Achiezer Brandt is an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods.
21. Kobbi Nissim
1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
researcher
cryptographer
Kobbi Nissim is a computer scientist at Georgetown University, where he is the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science. His areas of research include cryptography and data privacy. He is known for the introduction of differential privacy.
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22. Moshe Bar
1964-. (aged 62)
neuroscientist
researcher
Moshe Bar is an Israeli cognitive neuroscientist. He is a professor at Bar-Ilan University. He was previously head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University and before that director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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23. Meir Wilchek
1935-. (aged 91)
university teacher
biochemist
pedagogue
Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
24. Shalheveth Freier
1920-1994 (aged 74)
Aliyah Bet activist
physicist
Shalhevet Freier was an Israeli physicist and administrator.
25. Zafra M. Lerman
1937-. (aged 89)
chemist
Zafra M. Lerman is an American chemist, educator, and humanitarian. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which aims to promote peace by bringing together scientists from otherwise hostile countries to discuss science and foster international scientific and technical collaboration. From 1986 to 2010, she chaired the American Chemical Society's Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. She...
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26. Hermona Soreq
1947-. (aged 79)
researcher
biochemist
neuroscientist
Hermona Soreq is an Israeli professor of Molecular Neuroscience at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is best known for her work on the signaling of acetylcholine and its relevance in stress responses and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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27. Ron Milo
1975-. (aged 51)
university teacher
biochemist
biologist
Ron Milo is a Professor of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is Weizmann Dean of Education, the chairperson of the Israel society of ecology and environmental sciences and the director of the Institute for environmental sustainability at Weizmann. Formerly he was the chairperson of the Israel young academy.
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28. Yossi Matias
1958-. (aged 68)
computer scientist
Yossi Matias is an Israeli-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology executive. He serves as Vice President of Engineering & Research at Google and is the Head of Google Research. Matias was the founding managing director of Google’s Center in Israel.
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29. Lev Vaidman
1955-. (aged 71)
physicist
researcher
Lev Vaidman is a Russian-Israeli physicist and professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for his theoretical work in the area of fundamentals of quantum mechanics, which includes quantum teleportation, the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester, and the weak values. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The American Journal of Physics from 2007 to 2009. In...
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30. Daniel Amit
1938-2007 (aged 69)
physicist
scientist
Daniel J. Amit was an Israeli and Italian physicist and pacifist, who was one of the pioneers in the field of computational neuroscience. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund and Haim Sompolinsky, in a set of papers referred to as the ASG papers, were the first to demonstrate the utility of statistical mechanics in neural network research and helped establish theoretical and computational...
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31. Yael Tauman Kalai
computer scientist
cryptographer
Yael Tauman Kalai is a cryptographer and theoretical computer scientist and the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Previously, she worked as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England.
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32. Michal Schwartz
1950-. (aged 76)
neuroimmunologist
researcher
immunologist
physician
neuroscientist
Michal Schwartz is a professor of neuroimmunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She is active in the field of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly utilizing the immune system to help the brain fight terminal neurodegenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
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33. Joanna Aizenberg
1960-. (aged 66)
researcher
chemist
Joanna Aizenberg is a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University. She is the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the co-director of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology and a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She is a prominent figure...
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34. Doron Zeilberger
1950-. (aged 76)
computer scientist
mathematician
Doron Zeilberger is an Israeli-American mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics.
35. Moshe Vardi
1954-. (aged 72)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
mathematician
Moshe Ya'akov Vardi MAE ForMemRS is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist. He is the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, United States. and a faculty advisor for the Ken Kennedy Institute. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite model theory, knowledge of multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and...
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36. Uri Alon
1969-. (aged 57)
university teacher
ordinary professor
biophysicist
biologist
molecular biologist
Uri Alon is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques.
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37. Eli Biham
1960-. (aged 66)
university teacher
computer scientist
mathematician
cryptologist
engineer
Eli Biham is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, after serving for two years as chief of CS graduate school. Biham invented (publicly) differential cryptanalysis, for which he received his Ph.D., while...
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38. Dorit Aharonov
1970-. (aged 56)
computer scientist
engineer
physicist
university teacher
Dorit Aharonov is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. She is known for her works on quantum algorithms. The Aharonov–Jones–Landau algorithm is named after her.
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39. Dana Moshkovitz
computer scientist
Dana Moshkovitz Aaronson is an Israeli theoretical computer scientist whose research topics include approximation algorithms and probabilistically checkable proofs. She is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
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40. Anders Levermann
1973-. (aged 53)
university teacher
climatologist
physicist
Anders Levermann is a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University. He is a Professor of the Dynamics of the Climate System at Institute for Physics and Astrophysics of the Potsdam University, Germany. He has been involved in the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2004. Levermann advises political and...
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41. Nathan Seiberg
1956-. (aged 70)
physicist
theoretical physicist
Nathan "Nati" Seiberg is an Israeli American theoretical physicist who works on quantum field theory and string theory. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.
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42. Amir Pnueli
1941-2009 (aged 68)
university teacher
computer scientist
mathematician
pedagogue
engineer
Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
43. Mordehai Milgrom
1946-. (aged 80)
astrophysicist
astronomer
physicist
university teacher
Mordehai "Moti" Milgrom is an Israeli physicist and professor in the department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
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44. Arieh Warshel
1940-. (aged 86)
biochemist
chemist
university teacher
biophysicist
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the...
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45. Mario Livio
1945-. (aged 81)
pedagogue
writer
astronomer
mathematician
physicist
Mario Livio is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
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46. Ada Yonath
1939-. (aged 87)
chemist
molecular biologist
crystallographer
university teacher
biochemist
Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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47. Raphael Mechoulam
1930-2023 (aged 93)
university teacher
chemist
physician
Raphael Mechoulam was a Bulgarian-born Israeli organic chemist and a professor in the Department of Natural Materials at the School of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mechoulam served as Rector of the university from 1979–1982. He was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1994 and served as its scientific...
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48. Yoram Yovell
1958-. (aged 68)
psychoanalyst
psychiatrist
neuroscientist
university teacher
Yoram Yovell is an Israeli psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and brain researcher. He is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His areas of research include the neurobiology of emotions and mechanisms of physical and mental pain.
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49. Amnon Shashua
1960-. (aged 66)
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist, businessman and philanthropist. He is the Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the autonomous driving and driver-assistance technology company Mobileye, Co-founder of the artificial vision devices company OrCam, Founder and owner of ONE ZERO digital bank, chairman of artificial intelligence company...
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50. Adi Shamir
1952-. (aged 74)
computer scientist
mathematician
cryptologist
Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science. In 2002,...
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51. Gabriele Veneziano
1942-. (aged 84)
physicist
university teacher
Gabriele Veneziano is an Italian theoretical physicist widely considered the father of string theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris from 2004 to 2013, until the age of retirement there.
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