Background
Gal-Chen, Tzvi was born on September 1, 1941 in Bett Oved, Israel. Son of Abraham Moses and Rebecca Miriam (Wilsker) Gal-Chen.
educator geophysicist meteorologist
Gal-Chen, Tzvi was born on September 1, 1941 in Bett Oved, Israel. Son of Abraham Moses and Rebecca Miriam (Wilsker) Gal-Chen.
M.Sch. in Mathematics, Tel-Aviv U., 1970; Doctor of Philosophy in Geology, Columbia University, 1973.
Tzvi Gal-Chen's parents moved to Palestine when they were in their teens as part of a youth movement that came to Palestine in the early 1920s - having emigrated from Minsk in the current Belarus. Tzvi Gal-Chen was born in Palestine on September 1, 1941. Tzvi grew up as an Israeli Sabra on a collective farm.
He served in the Israeli Army. He earned a B.Sc. in 1967 and an M.Sc. in 1970, both from Tel Aviv University, with specialization in applied math and physics. Tzvi came to the United States in 1970.
In 1973, he earned a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from Columbia University, under the supervision of Dr. R C.J. Somerville. From September 1975 to September 1979 he was a research assistant professor at the University of Toronto. For the last 12 years of his career, he was a professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.
He died suddenly, while on a walk, on October 10, 1994. Tzvi Gal-Chen is most noted for his work in retrieval of wind and thermodynamic variables from a single Doppler radar.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (member nominating committee 1986-1990), American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society.
Married Josepha, February 28, 1968. Children: Oren, Rebecca Rikki.
