Shmuel (Mula) Shtrikman ( he, שמואל שטריקמן; 21 October 1930 to 11 November 2003) was an Israeli physicist, and a professor at the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

. Winner of the Israel Prize for Research in Physics in 2001.

Biography

Born in Brest, Belarus (then Poland) to Abraham and Esther Shtrikman, sister of Sapir and brother of biochemist Nathan Sharon. Shtrikman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1934. In the first year the family lived in

Kfar Saba Kfar Saba ( he, כְּפַר סָבָא), officially Kefar Sava, is a city in the Sharon region, of the Central District of Israel. In 2019 it had a population of 110,456, making it the 16th-largest city in Israel. The population of Kfar Saba i ...

; a year later they moved to

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he served in the Air Force. Shtrikman began his studies at the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

in 1950. After graduation with a BSc in 1954, he joined the Department of Electronics at the

, where he did his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, received in 1958. In 1967 he was appointed professor at the Weizmann Institute. In 1981 to 1982 he served as head of the department of the Electronic Physics Institute. In 1994 he was elected to the

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, based in Jerusalem, was established in 1961 by the State of Israel to foster contact between Israeli scholars in the sciences and humanities and create a think tank for advising the government on re ...

. His research concerned various fields of physics: the behaviour of particles under the influence of a magnetic field; liquid crystals; Lifshitz points; composites constructed from inhomogeneous distributions of ingredients; and calculating the elasticity of composite materials. On this last issue he worked together with Zvi Hashin; their joint work is considered one of the key breakthroughs in the field, cited over 2500 times according to Elsevier.

Awards

Shtrikman received the following awards: * Weizmann Prize for Science (1968) * Michael Landau Prize (1975) * IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer (1984 and 1997–1998) * Ben Gurion University Applied Electronics Prize (1988) * R. M. Burton Award by the Weizmann Institute Foundation (1988) * Israel Prize in Physics (2003) * Israel Defense Prize (1979 and 1987)

Bibliography

* E. H. Frei, S. Shtrikman, and D. Treves, 1957, Critical Size and Nucleation Field of Ideal Ferromagnetic Particles, ''Phys. Rev.'' 106, 446. * Z. Hashin and S. Shtrikman, 1963, A variational approach to the elastic behaviour of multiphase materials: ''J. Mech. Phys. Solids'' 11, 127–140.

References

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