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Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (1914 – 1972) was an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry
Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron Electrical conductor and an ionic conductor , and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution....
 of biopolymer
Biopolymer

Biopolymers are a class of polymers produced by living organisms.Starch, proteins and peptides,and DNA and RNA are all examples of biopolymers, in which the monomeric units, respectively, are sugars, amino acids, and nucleotides....
s.

Born 1914 in Lódz
Lódz

L?dz is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 753,192 in 2007. It is the capital of L?dz Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, he moved to Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. There, he adopted his Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 surname Katzir. He was killed in the JRA attack on Lod Airport
Lod Airport massacre

The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorism attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killed 24 people and injured 80 others at Tel Aviv's Lod airport ....
 in 1972. Israel has since issued a postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
 in his memory. The crater Katchalsky
Katchalsky (crater)

Katchalsky is a Impact crater that lies on the Far side of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the larger crater Lobachevskiy , and to the west of the prominent King ....
 on the Moon
Moon

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 is named after him.






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Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (1914 – 1972) was an Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry
Electrochemistry

Electrochemistry is a branch of chemistry that studies chemical reactions which take place in a solution at the interface of an electron Electrical conductor and an ionic conductor , and which involve electron transfer between the electrode and the electrolyte or species in solution....
 of biopolymer
Biopolymer

Biopolymers are a class of polymers produced by living organisms.Starch, proteins and peptides,and DNA and RNA are all examples of biopolymers, in which the monomeric units, respectively, are sugars, amino acids, and nucleotides....
s.

Born 1914 in Lódz
Lódz

L?dz is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 753,192 in 2007. It is the capital of L?dz Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, he moved to Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
. There, he adopted his Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 surname Katzir. He was killed in the JRA attack on Lod Airport
Lod Airport massacre

The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorism attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killed 24 people and injured 80 others at Tel Aviv's Lod airport ....
 in 1972. Israel has since issued a postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
 in his memory. The crater Katchalsky
Katchalsky (crater)

Katchalsky is a Impact crater that lies on the Far side of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the larger crater Lobachevskiy , and to the west of the prominent King ....
 on the Moon
Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
 is named after him. His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir

Ephraim Katzir is an Israeli biophysics and former Israeli Labor Party politics. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978....
, became the President
President

President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
 of Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 in 1973.

A series of Hebrew lectures is held at Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a large, public university, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000....
 in memory of Katzir, organized by his son Avrahm, a professor of physics. It is named In the Crucible of the Revolution (BeKur HaMahapecha), alluding to a popular book Katzir wrote about scientific progress. It has featured lectures by Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 laureates Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases , and developed Prospect theory ....
 and Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biology, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation....
, and renowned philosopher Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam

Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science....
. A center at the Weizmann Institute of Science
Weizmann Institute of Science

The Weizmann Institute of Science , known as Machon Weizmann is a university and research institute in Rehovot, Israel. It differs from other List of universities in Israel in that it offers only graduate student and post-graduate studies in the sciences....
, and a scholarship program of the Israeli Ministry of Defense
Ministry of Defense (Israel)

The Ministry of Defense of the government of Israel, is the governmental department responsible for defending the State of Israel from internal and external military threats....
 are named after him as well.

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