Italian-born Professor Yoel Rakah, 52, a world-famous physicist, was elected tonight as rector of the Hebrew University. He succeeds Dr. Binyamin Mazar, who resigned.
The new rector, who settled in Palestine in 1931, has been professor of theoretical physics at Hebrew University since 1939 and served as the dean of the faculty of sciences from 1946 to 1948. He also has taught at the University of Pisa and the University of Florence. He was a guest member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in Princeton, N. J. in 1950 and 1951.
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