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Ephraim Katzir
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Israeli scientist, 4th President of Israel (1973–1978) - (born 1916-2009)
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Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist, university teacher, and politician who served as President of Israel. Born in Kyiv in 1916, he was a member of the Israeli Labor Party. His academic career was centered at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he worked in fields including biochemistry, peptide research, and enzyme technology. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and received the Israel Prize, Japan Prize, Rothschild Prize, and Sir Hans Krebs Medal.
Katzir was educated at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard University, Columbia University, and New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He held memberships in the Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, French Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences. His notable works include *Biological significance of high molecular weight polypeptides* and *Enzyme technology*. He was married to Nina Katzir and had a sibling named Aharon Katzir. He died in Rehovot in 2009.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Biological significance of high molecular weight polypeptides
- Kenisah le-miṭbaḥo shel ha-kol yakhol
- Enzyme technology
- Aharon Katzir memorial volume
- Biotechnological applications of proteins and enzymes
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Israel
- Active from
- 1983-05-20
Discography
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 103
- Cited by
- 4,885
Research areas
Most cited works
- Molecular surface recognition: determination of geometric fit between proteins and their ligands by correlation techniques.1992 · 1,103 cit
- Eupergit® C, a carrier for immobilization of enzymes of industrial potential2000 · 421 cit
- Immobilized enzymes — learning from past successes and failures1993 · 417 cit
- Effect of the orientation of donor and acceptor on the probability of energy transfer involving electronic transitions of mixed polarization1978 · 345 cit
- Distribution of end-to-end distances of oligopeptides in solution as estimated by energy transfer.1975 · 264 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable
· 1992 · cited 6,180x
- Speech enhancement using a minimum-mean square error short-time spectral amplitude estimator
· 1984 · cited 2,664x
- Estimating the Prevalence of Limb Loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050
· 2008 · cited 2,343x
- A MICROCOLORIMETRIC METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS
· 1953 · cited 1,963x
- Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome
· 2012 · cited 1,887x
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Golda Meir , Yitzhak Rabin , Menachem Begin
- Preceded by
- Zalman Shazar
- Succeeded by
- Yitzhak Navon
- Born
- 16 May [ O.S. 3 May ] 1916, Kiev , Kiev uyezd , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire , (Present-day: Kiev, Ukraine )
- Died
- 30 May 2009 (2009-05-30) (aged 93), Rehovot , Israel
- Party
- Israeli Labor Party
- Spouse
- Nina Gottlieb
- Profession
- Scientist
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Israel
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- Rehovot
- Spouse
- Nina Katzir
- Sibling
- Aharon Katzir
- Occupation
- biophysicist
- Position held
- President of Israel
- Educated at
- Gymnasia Rehavia
- Employer
- Tel Aviv University
- Political party
- Israeli Labor Party
- Languages spoken
- Hebrew
- Religion
- Judaism
- Field of work
- politics
- Military rank
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Image
- EKatzir771.jpg
- Work location
- Weizmann Institute of Science
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- Commons category
- Ephraim Katzir
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1916-05-03
- date of death
- 2009-05-30
- Erdős number
- 2
- birth name
- Эфраимъ Юдель-Гершевичъ Качальскій
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- אפרים קציר
- place of burial
- Rehovot
- P8168
- Velký Ořechov
- subject has role
- eponym
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Encyclopedic overview
Ephraim Katzir (Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם קָצִיר, romanized: Ep̄rayim Qaṣir; 16 May [O.S. 3 May] 1916 – 30 May 2009) was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the president of Israel from 1973 until 1978.
Biography
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