RABIN, MICHAEL OSER

RABIN, MICHAEL OSER (1931– ), Israeli mathematician. Rabin was born in Breslau, Germany, and was brought to Ereẓ Israel in 1935. After graduating from the Hebrew University he taught mathematics from 1956 to 1958 at Princeton, where he obtained his doctorate and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. Returning to Israel in 1958 he became associate professor at the Hebrew University in 1961 and full professor in 1965. Rabin's field of study was mathematical logic, autotheory, and the mathematical theory of computations, and he is credited with a number of inventions in the field of computers. From 1972 to 1975 Rabin was the rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in 1980 was awarded the Harvey Prize of the Haifa Technion (jointly with S.D. Goitein\>\> and E. Racker\>\> ). He was rewarded the Israel Prize in 1995.