Shmuel (Mula) Shtrikman (Hebrew: שמואל שטריקמן; 21 October 1930 to 11 November 2003) was an Israeli physicist, and a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

[1] Born in Brest, Belarus (then Poland) to Abraham and Esther Shtrikman, sister of Sapir and brother of biochemist Nathan Sharon.

[2] Shtrikman began his studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1950.

After graduation with a BSc in 1954, he joined the Department of Electronics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he did his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, received in 1958.

[2] His research concerned various fields of physics: the behaviour of particles under the influence of a magnetic field; liquid crystals; Lifshitz points; composites constructed from inhomogeneous distributions of ingredients; and calculating the elasticity of composite materials.