Aharon Katzir (Hebrew: אַהֲרֹן קָצִיר; born Aharon Katchalsky; September 15, 1914 – May 30, 1972)[1] was an Israeli scientist who was known as a pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers.
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אַהֲרֹן קָצִיר | |
Born | Aharon Katchalsky September 15, 1914 |
Died | May 30, 1972 Lod Airport, Central District, Israel | (aged 57)
Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
Citizenship | Israeli |
Occupation | Pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers |
Relatives | Ephraim Katzir (brother) |
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Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, he adopted his Hebrew surname Katzir. He was a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel as well as at the department of medical physics and biophysics at UC Berkeley, California.
He was murdered in a terrorist attack at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972 in which 26 people were killed and 80 injured.[2] His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973.