Avshalom Cyrus Elitzur (; born 30 May 1957), is an Iranian-born Israeli physicist and philosopher.
Biography
Avshalom Elitzur was born in
Kerman, Iran, to a Jewish family. When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Israel and settled in
Rehovot. He left school at the age of sixteen and began working as a laboratory technician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Rehovot. Elitzur received no formal university training before obtaining his PhD. Elitzur had a relationship with journalist Timura Lessinger, with whom he has a daughter.
Academic career
Elitzur was a senior lecturer at the Unit for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar-Ilan University,
Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester experiment in quantum mechanics, which was publicised by
Roger Penrose in his book
Shadows of the Mind.
In 1987, he published Into the Holy of Holies: Psychoanalytic Insights into the Bible and Judaism. That year, he was invited to present an unpublished manuscript on quantum mechanics at an international conference in Temple University in Philadelphia. He was later invited by Yakir Aharonov of Tel Aviv University, to write a doctoral thesis on the subject. He was the chief editor of natural sciences in Encyclopaedia Hebraica. In 2008, he was a visiting professor at Joseph Fourier University.
Elitzur is the founder of Iyar, the Israeli Institute for Advanced Research.[ Iyar, The Israeli Institute for Advanced Research (English) ]
Award and recognitions
In 2010, Elitzur won the Noetic Medal of Consciousness and Brain Research for his contributions to the cosmology of the mind and Quantum Theory.
[ The 2010 Noetic Medal awarded to Israeli Physicist Avshalom C. Elitzur]
Published works
Author
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לפני ולפנים - עיונים פסיכואנליטיים במקרא וביהדות, תל אביב, "ירום"-אליצור, 1987
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זמן ותודעה - תהיות חדשות על חידות עתיקות, אוניברסיטה משודרת, 1994,
Editor
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'Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective', edited by Rosolino Buccheri, Avshalom C Elitzur and Metod Saniga; Germany, Bielefeld, 2005
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'Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?' (The Frontiers Collection), by A. Elitzur (Editor), S. Dolev (Editor), N. Kolenda (Editor); New York: Springer, 2005
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'Mind and its Place in the World: Phenomenology & Minds', Vol. 7 (Phenomenology & Mind) by Alexander Batthyany (Editor), Avshalom Elitzur (Editor), Ontos Verlag, 2006
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'Irreducibly Conscious: Selected Papers on Consciousness', Herausgegeben von Batthyany, Alexander / Elitzur, Avshalom (Editors), Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2009
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