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Shimon Yankielowicz (born February 26, 1946) is an Israeli theoretical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the Tel Aviv University's School of Physics, where he served as Rector from 2001 to 2005. He received the Weizmann Prize for Physics in 2013 and was made an Honorary Fellow of the Israel Physical Society in 2022.

Biography
Shimon Yankielowicz was born in Łódź, Poland, to Dr. Tully Yankielowicz and Anna (Hella) Waldman, a chemist. He immigrated to Israel with his family in infancy.

In 1963, he began his undergraduate studies in Physics and Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing them with honors in 1966. He then pursued a master's degree, also graduating with honors in 1968.

From 1968 to 1972, he served in the military as a physicist at the Atomic Energy Commission. Concurrently, he began his Ph.D. studies in High Energy Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science under Prof. Isaac Frishman, completing his doctorate in 1974.

From 1974 to 1976, Yankielowicz was a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University, before returning to Israel as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He became a senior lecturer in 1980, an associate professor in 1984, and a full professor in 1988. He served as the head of the High Energy Department from 1991 to 1994 and as the head of the School of Physics from 1995 to 1997. Yankielowicz was appointed Rector of the university from 2001 to 2005.

During his tenure, he founded the Tel Aviv University for Youth program, aimed at bringing high school students closer to academic studies, and served as its academic chair for over twenty years. He was awarded the President of Tel Aviv University Award in 2021 for this work.

Yankielowicz was also a member of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education and served on various national and international committees, including the Shochat Committee for examining the higher education system and the steering committee of the Israeli National Science Foundation.

Research
Yankielowicz's research focuses on Quantum Field Theories and their applications to various physical systems, particularly elementary particles. He has contributed to the study of Gauge Theories, Conformal Field Theories, and String Theories. His work on dualities between Gauge Theories and Gravity Theories and the holographic duality between String Theories and Gauge Theories is highly cited.

Awards and Recognition

 * Humboldt Prize, 1999
 * Weizmann Prize for Physics, 2013
 * Honorary Fellow of the Israel Physical Society, 2022