Itamar Procaccia (Hebrew: איתמר פרוקצ'יה; born September 29, 1949, in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli physicist and chemist who has made contributions to areas in statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, soft matter, and turbulence.
Procaccia studied chemistry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with and obtained a bachelor's degree in 1973 and obtained a doctorate in theoretical chemistry in 1976.
[1] He has held guest appointments at the City University of New York, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Nordita, the Isaac Newton Institute, Rockefeller University, the École normale supérieure de Lyon, and the University of Chicago, among others.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and a member of the Leopoldina and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
In 2017 he received the EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize.