Avraham Rinat

Avraham S. Rinat-Reiner (born 3 June 1929)[1] is a Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist who worked as professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[2]

Rinat was born in Amsterdam.[1] During his childhood he was friends with Anne Frank.[3] During World War II Rinat went into hiding on a farm in Hollandscheveld. He ended up in Westerbork transit camp where he remained until the liberation of the camp.[4] In 1958 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam under professor J. de Boer with a thesis titled: "Structure effects in the interaction between nuclei and atomic electrons".[5]

Rinat was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.[6]

References
  1. D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
  2. "Avraham S. Rinat". Weizmann Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019.
  3. "Avraham Rinat – Anne Frank Fonds". Anne Frank Fonds Basel via YouTube. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  4. "Avraham Rinat". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
  5. "A.S. Reiner, 1929 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
  6. "Avraham Rinat-Reiner". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020.


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