| Hanoch Gutfreund | |
| Native Name: | חנוך גוטפרוינד |
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Gutfreund received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1966.[1] [2]
Gutfreund is the Andre Aisenstadt Chair in Theoretical Physics and has been a professor at the university since 1985.[2] [3] Gutfreund was earlier the Head of the Physics Institute, Head of the Advanced Studies Institute, Rector, and President of the university from 1992 to 1997 (following Yoram Ben-Porat, and succeeded by Menachem Magidor).[2] [4] [5] [6]
Gutfreund is the Director of the Einstein Center and is Hebrew University's appointee responsible for Albert Einstein's intellectual property.[2] [7] [8] [9] He heads the executive committee of the Israel Science Foundation.[2]
His writings include The Formative Years of Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's Princeton Lectures (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2017) and The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity", Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2017), and Einstein on Einstein: Autobiographical and Scientific Reflections (with Jürgen Renn, Princeton University Press, 2020).[10] [11] [12]
Gutfreund lives in Jerusalem.[13]