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| Imry, Yoseph | |
|---|---|
| Name | Yoseph Imry |
| Native name | יוסף עמרי |
| Birth date | 1939-03-12 |
| Birth place | Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine |
| Death date | 2018-09-29 |
| Death place | Paris, France |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Fields | Condensed matter physics, Mesoscopic physics |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor | Ilya Prigogine |
| Known for | Mesoscopic physics, Imry–Landau theory, persistent currents |
| Awards | Israel Prize, Wolf Prize, Rothschild Prize |
Imry, Yoseph was an Israeli physicist noted for founding the field of mesoscopic physics and for seminal work on electronic transport in small systems. He made influential theoretical contributions linking quantum coherence, disorder, and interference in metallic grains and rings, shaping research in condensed matter and nanoscience. His work impacted experiments on persistent currents, universal conductance fluctuations, and localization, and earned international recognition including the Israel Prize and the Wolf Prize.
Born in Jerusalem during the British Mandate for Palestine, Imry grew up amid the political transformation leading to the State of Israel. He studied physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he completed undergraduate and doctoral work influenced by figures associated with Ilya Prigogine and contacts with researchers from institutions such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Imry's formative education intersected with developments at the Institute for Advanced Study milieu, postwar European centers like University of Paris groups, and interactions with scholars linked to the Royal Society and Max Planck Society.
Imry's career combined theoretical analysis with close connections to experimental groups at laboratories including the Bell Labs, IBM Research, and university-based centers such as Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He articulated concepts about phase coherence length, dephasing mechanisms, and size-dependent transport that engaged communities working on the Aharonov–Bohm effect, Anderson localization, and the Kondo effect. Imry proposed models explaining persistent currents in normal-metal rings, engaging with experiments by teams at Ohio State University, Copenhagen University, and Harvard. His research linked to studies of universal conductance fluctuations measured in setups at UC Berkeley and University of Cambridge and to theoretical frameworks developed alongside researchers from École Normale Supérieure and University of Amsterdam.
Imry introduced foundational ideas in mesoscopic physics, including the Imry–Landau conceptual approaches to fluctuations, theories of quantum coherence in diffusive conductors, and analyses of energy-level statistics related to random-matrix formulations developed with parallels to work by Freeman Dyson and Marcel R. Zirnbauer. His predictions on persistent currents stimulated experiments by groups led by Harris R. Chandrasekhar, Nicolas Giordano, and V. Chandrasekhar and theoretical debates involving Philip W. Anderson and David Thouless. Honors recognizing Imry's influence include the Israel Prize in Physics, the Wolf Prize in Physics, the Rothschild Prize, and memberships or fellowships linked to the National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Imry held professorships and visiting appointments at institutions such as the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Bar-Ilan University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he lectured at international centers including the CERN summer programs, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, and the Aspen Center for Physics. He supervised students and postdoctoral researchers who later joined faculties at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Columbia University, Tel Aviv University, and Princeton University, fostering generations engaged with topics connected to the Quantum Hall effect, superconductivity experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and nanoscale device studies at the California Institute of Technology.
Imry authored influential texts and review articles that remain standard references for scholars working on mesoscopic systems, including works published in journals like Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Nature Physics. His books and papers influenced theoretical frameworks related to the Landau theory family of approaches, random-matrix theory dialogues with Eugene Wigner-inspired ideas, and connections to experimental programs at NIST and national laboratories such as Brookhaven National Laboratory. Imry's legacy persists in contemporary research on quantum coherence in nanoscale circuits, topological materials studied at ETH Zurich and University of Tokyo, and ongoing explorations by groups at MIT and Stanford University.
Category:Israeli physicists Category:Condensed matter physicists Category:1939 births Category:2018 deaths