Avraham Rinat

Rinat in 2023

Avraham S. Rinat-Reiner (Hebrew: אברהם רינת; 3 June 1929 – September 2025) was a Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist who worked as professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Life and career

Rinat was born in Amsterdam on 3 June 1929. During his childhood he was friends with Anne Frank. During World War II Rinat went into hiding on a farm in Hollandscheveld. He ended up in Westerbork transit camp where he remained until the liberation of the camp. In 1958 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam under professor J. de Boer with a thesis titled: "Structure effects in the interaction between nuclei and atomic electrons".

He was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.

Rinat died in September 2025, at the age of 96.

References

  1. ↑ "Avraham S. Rinat". Weizmann Institute of Science. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019.
  2. ↑ D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 329. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
  3. ↑ "Avraham Rinat – Anne Frank Fonds". Anne Frank Fonds Basel via YouTube. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Avraham Rinat". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "A.S. Reiner, 1929 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Avraham Rinat-Reiner". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "רינת אברהם". חברה קדישא רחובות (in Hebrew). Retrieved 22 September 2025.