David Faiman

David Faiman (born 1944 in the United Kingdom) is a British and Israeli physicist.

In 1976 he was recruited by Amos Richmond to assist in founding the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at the Sede Boqer campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

[1][2] Faiman created the Institutes’ Department of Solar Energy & Environmental Physics, which he headed concurrently with the Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center until his retirement in 2013 at the rank of Professor Emeritus.

Faiman lives in Sede Boqer, Israel, in a passive solar house where almost all of the heating and cooling needs are taken care of by the sun.

Faiman’s theoretical physics research focused on hadron spectroscopy using the quark model and various associated symmetries.