Tsevi Mazeh (born 1946) is an Israeli astrophysicist. He is a professor of astrophysics at Tel Aviv University.[1]
Biography
editTsevi Mazeh was born in Jerusalem. His mother immigrated from Poland before the war and his father came from Bialystok to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[2]
Scientific career
editHe is president of the Institute of Astronomy at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in exoplanet research. He is co-discoverer of HD 114762 b, the first substellar mass object (the status of a planet or brown dwarf remains uncertain) known outside the Solar System. In2012, Mazeh announced via NASA's Kepler spaceship his team had discovered a pair of planets revolving around a binary star system, reportedly "the first multiple planet arrangement in such a star system."[3]
Awards and recognition
editMazeh won the Weizmann Prize for Research in the Exact Sciences in 2009.[4]
Mazeh won the Israel Prize for physics research in 2024.[5]
References
edit- ^ European Space Agency refuses to name Israeli in sensational discovery
- ^ European Space Agency refuses to name Israeli in sensational discovery
- ^ New worlds discovered, courtesy of US-Israel team
- ^ [הידען, שירות (23 September 2009). "פרופ' שלמה הבלין מבר-אילן ופרופ' צבי מאז"ה מת"א זכו בפרס ויצמן למחקרים במדעים מדויקים". הידען – Hayadan (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-03-27.
- ^ Congratulation to Prof. Tsevi Mazeh for receiving the Israel Prize in the field of physics research for 2024