Avraham Rinat

{{short description|Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist (born 1929)}}

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Avraham S. Rinat-Reiner ({{Langx|he|אברהם רינת}}; born 3 June 1929){{cite book|author1=D. J. van de Kaa|author2=Kaa|author3=Y. de Roo|title=De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzNvCGJEGCYC&pg=PA329|date=19 December 2008|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-6984-552-4|page=329}} is a Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist who worked as professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/content/avraham-s-rinat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809170130/http://www.weizmann.ac.il/particle/content/avraham-s-rinat |title=Avraham S. Rinat |publisher=Weizmann Institute of Science |date= |archive-date=9 August 2019}}

Rinat was born in Amsterdam. During his childhood he was friends with Anne Frank.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8WU88xOOpI |title=Avraham Rinat – Anne Frank Fonds |publisher=Anne Frank Fonds Basel via YouTube |date=2 May 2019 |access-date=14 June 2020}} During World War II Rinat went into hiding on a farm in Hollandscheveld. He ended up in Westerbork transit camp where he remained until the liberation of the camp.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4999040 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614182940/https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4999040 |title=Avraham Rinat |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |date= |archive-date=14 June 2020}} In 1958 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam under professor J. de Boer with a thesis titled: "Structure effects in the interaction between nuclei and atomic electrons".{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Reiner;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;start=1;size=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614184821/http://www.albumacademicum.uva.nl/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?type=simple;lang=nl;c=ap;rgn1=entirerecord;q1=Reiner;x=0;y=0;cc=ap;view=reslist;sort=achternaam;fmt=long;page=reslist;start=1;size=1 |title=A.S. Reiner, 1929 - |language=Dutch |publisher=University of Amsterdam |date= |archive-date=14 June 2020}}

Rinat was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1981.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/4703 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200427155834/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/correspondents/4703 |title=Avraham Rinat-Reiner |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |archive-date=27 April 2020}}