Nathan Sharon (Hebrew: נתן שרון; November 1925[1] – 17 June 2011[2]) was an Israeli biochemist.

[3] During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Sharon served in the Science Corps of the Israel Defense Forces, attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel, and worked on the development of gas flame throwers.

In 1974, he was appointed head of the department, a position he held intermittently until his retirement in 1990.

[2][3] He was the nephew of Pinchas Sapir, the former Israeli Finance Minister and the brother of Shmuel Shtrikman, who was awarded the 2001 Israel Prize for physics.

[9] Sharon published over 400 papers in international scientific journals and wrote or edited eight books in English and Hebrew.