TAU Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob Elected To American Philosophical Society

June 29, 2014 | Tel Aviv University physicist Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. Ben-Jacob is the first non-American of the 33 new members that were elected to the society. Prof. Ben-Jacob is a professor of physics and astronomy and is the Maguy-Glass Chair in Physics of Complex Systems at the Raymond and Beverly Sackler School and Physics and Astronomy. The American Philosophical Society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin and boasts such prestigious members as Charles Darwin, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Einstein, to name a few.