Amnon Albeck

Amnon Albeck (Hebrew: אמנון אלבק; born August 1, 1958) is an organic and bioorganic chemist.

[3] His grandfather, Hanoch Albeck was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who was one of the founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna.

He then spent two years as a post-doctoral Fellow with Robert H. Abeles at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, USA.

[1] In July 2020 he was elected Rector of Bar-Ilan University, due to replace Prof. Miriam Faust in office.

Amnon and his wife Shira, who is a staff scientist[7] at the Weizmann Institute of Science, have five children and seven grandchildren.