Prof. Yosef Clifter, president of Tel Aviv University, was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Prof. Clifter is the only Israeli elected this year to serve in the prestigious academy

Prof. Yosef Klifter, president of Tel Aviv University, was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. , humanities and arts, were elected to serve as new members of the academy. The announcement also stated that the 212 new members Those elected to the American Academy join one of the most prestigious and respected organizations in the US, which is a leading center for policy research. "It is a privilege to pay tribute to these men and women for their extraordinary achievements," said Academy President Leslie Berlowitz.
Among the academics, writers and artists, members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2011, you can find Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners and other awards.
Prof. Yosef Clifter is among a group of 16 new non-American academic members, and he is the only Israeli on this list. In the group you can also find the Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, the famous British actress, Helen Mirren and the singer and the Canadian poet, Leonard Cohen.
Prof. Clifter, an expert in the field of physical chemistry, is a world-renowned scientist in the field of random movement of molecules and other nanoscale particles. His research led to the generalization of the laws of Brownian motion, which Albert Einstein was responsible for formulating. For his scientific achievements he won many awards, among them: the German Humboldt Prize, the Rothschild Prize in Chemistry, the Weizmann Prize for Science, the Technion's Coltholf Prize and the Israel Chemistry Society Prize.
Below is the announcement of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that came out yesterday