Education
Elitzur received no formal university training before obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy.
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Elitzur received no formal university training before obtaining his Doctor of Philosophy.
Avshalom Elitzur was a senior lecturer at the Unit for Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics, which was publicised by Roger Penrose in his book Shadows of the Mind. He left school at the age of sixteen and began working as a laboratory technician at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
During that same year, he was invited to present an unpublished manuscript on quantum mechanics at an international conference in Temple University in Philadelphia.
Consequently, he was later invited by Yakir Aharonov of Tel Aviv University, the doyen of physicists in Israel, to write a doctoral thesis on the subject. He was the chief editor of natural sciences in Encyclopaedia Hebraica.
In 2008, he was a visiting professor at Joseph Fourier University.