Gad Avigad (

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גד אביגד; born 1930) is an Israeli biochemist.

Biography

Avigad was born in 1930 in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. At 17, he joined the ranks of the Palmach. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, receiving a doctorate in 1958. Avigad was Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Hebrew University and, in 1970, moved to the United States and taught at the

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Awards

In 1957, Avigad was awarded the Israel Prize, in

exact science The exact sciences, sometimes called the exact mathematical sciences, are those sciences "which admit of absolute precision in their results"; especially the mathematical sciences. Examples of the exact sciences are mathematics, optics, astron ...

s, jointly with Shlomo Hestrin and David Sidney Feingold, with whom he studied.

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