Amnon Yariv, one of the pioneers of the laser field, who previously sold a company he founded - Ortel, to Lucent for $2.95 billion
Amnon Yariv, holder of the Eileen Summerfield Chair in Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is one of the ten winners of the National Medal of Science. This is the highest award given to a scientist in the US, and along with Prof. Yakir Aharonov from Tel Aviv University (and Chapman University from California) according to the Caltech website, Yariv is a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics.
The site prefers to quote the general words of President Obama when announcing the ten winners, the two Israelis among them, "The extraordinary achievement of these scientists, engineers and inventors are a testament to American industry and ingenuity." Said the president and added: "Their achievements redrawn the boundaries of human knowledge, and American growth, and it is a pleasure to honor them for their important contribution."
Yariv brings the number of medal winners from Caltech to 55. In an article published in Globes on May 17, 2000, Yariv is presented as one of the pioneers of the laser industry in the USA, who some time before sold the company he founded, Ortel Corp. to Lucent for $2.95 billion. Since the seventies he has been engaged in the research and development of lasers, including electronic lasers operating on semiconductors. Ortel developed and manufactured semiconductor lasers and digital amplifiers used to transmit information on fiber optic networks of the cable networks. Its technology has helped to quickly connect to the Internet and other communication services that are at the top of the minds of the communication and cable giants. I wonder where her products are today in the Alcatel-Lucent product line, after a decade and several technological generations.
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Israel only knows how to export scientists to the USA (and Europe), but does not know how to keep them here in Israel.
And the scientists go to the US not because of the money, but because of the stupidity of the State of Israel.
The scientist abroad is not interested in the money. Although it looks like he's after the money, he's not!
He leaves the country because here they simply deport him from the country.
And why are they deporting him? Because in Israel the order of priorities is crooked: the government is not interested in scientific research.
On Friday, I heard Roni Daniel on Channel 2 in the article Bekur interviewing physicists.
And he later talked about the brain drain and that it's a shame they don't keep the Israelis here. And I really laughed. Roni Daniel really lives in another planet and during the whole article he understood nothing and absolutely nothing.
He didn't understand what the physicists told him...
As soon as you take your nose out of the country, the Israelis are immediately kidnapped and here they are told everywhere: no, no, there is no place... and especially no budget. Because science is not interesting. The budget goes to meetings and the SHS and to some rejected hill somewhere, to all the idlers who do nothing and got to be some manager on a dime from some rejected basta.
Then we stick our noses out a little and find out what's going on in the US and they tell us: come, come.
Because in the US they quickly grasped the structure of society in the State of Israel. And that's how the brain drain works.
And Obama is now giving awards to two Israelis and basically saying to the Israeli doctors: you should come to the US because here you will not only get jobs quickly (something you obviously don't get in Israel, which budgets for the idle), but also maybe one day after many years you will receive prestigious awards.
How fun it is to be a scientist. If I had been born with the financial ability to study, I would have been sure
scientist.
It seems that their lives are interesting driven by curiosity, perseverance and adherence to a goal.
It is clear that not everything is glamorous and there is a lot of Sisyphean work and struggles for the budget, in XNUMX
I would like to be there.
Maybe in the next incarnation.
add another perspective -
From my conversations with him, not that I know him deeply, he is very proud of being "Israeli," and always prefers to converse in Hebrew. In addition, in every class he teaches, he tells how he was injured in the War of Liberation.
Because of the above I consider him an Israeli, not always a physical location or citizenship (passport) determines, but the being and the personality.
I believe it doesn't matter to us what air he breathed as a child.
He is more interested in his citizenship.
Israeli does not show any geographical location.
In total, this shows the existence or non-existence of a blue certificate,
And according to the title, he does have one.
And for an Israeli living in Israel after immigrating here from Poland thirty years ago, do we call him Polish?
Yariv is an American who was born in Israel but has not been Israeli for 60 years.
Yes, at his birth he breathed the air of peaks...