Joshua Zak

Israeli theoretical physicist (1929–2024)

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יהושע זק

Zak receiving the Israel Prize from Israeli Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton in 2022

Born(1929-09-26)26 September 1929

Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania)

Died14 March 2024(2024-03-14) (aged 94)

Haifa, Israel

OccupationTheoretical physicistKnown forZak transformChildren2AwardsWigner medal (2014)
Israel Prize (2022)

Joshua Zak (Hebrew: יהושע זק; 26 September 1929 – 14 March 2024) was an Israeli theoretical physicist and writer known for the Zak transform, Zak phase and the Magnetic Translation Group. He received the 2022 Israel Prize and 2014 Wigner medal.^[1]^[2]

Most cited publications

Zak J. Berry's phase for energy bands in solids. Physical Review Letters. 1989 Jun 5;62(23):2747. [1] Archived 2 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine
J. Zak. Magnetic translation group. Physical Review. 1964 Jun 15;134(6A):A1602.^[3]
Zak J, Moog ER, Liu C, Bader SD. A universal approach to magneto-optics. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 1990 Sep 1;89(1–2):107–23 [2]^{[dead link]}^[3]
Zak J, Moog ER, Liu C, Bader SD. Magneto-optics of multilayers with arbitrary magnetization directions. Physical Review B. 1991 Mar 15;43(8):6423.^[3]
Zak J. Finite translations in solid-state physics. Physical Review Letters. 1967 Dec 11;19(24):1385.^[3]

Honors and awards

Wigner Medal (2014)^[1]
Israel Prize, for his achievements in physics (2022)^[4]
The Brown–Zak fermion and the Zak transform are named after him.

References

^ ^a ^b "Wigner Medal awarded to Professor Joshua Zak - Physics Department, Technion". phys.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Avron J, Bohm A, Schulman LS. The Wigner Medal 2014. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2015 Mar 1 (Vol. 597, No. 1, p. 011004). IOP Publishing.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joshua Zak at Google Scholar, Accessed 21 March 2023
^ Prof. Emeritus Joshua Zak will be awarded the 2022 Israel Prize in the Field of Physics and Chemistry Research