1966, BSc, 1968, MSc and 1972, PhD, Technion. Former NRC Fellow, aerospace research laboratories, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, studying microstructure and physical metallurgy of titanium aluminides. 1975, joined dept of materials science and engineering, Technion. 1981-83, on sabbatical, Johns Hopkins Univ., studying rapidly solidified aluminium transition metal alloys; discovered Icosahedral Phase. 1992-94, on sabbatical, NIST, studying effect of defect structure of CVD diamond on its growth and properties. Served on Technion Senate Committees; headed one of them. Member: European Academy of Sciences; American National Academy of Engineering; Israel Academy of Sciences. Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011).