Yakir Aharonov ForMemRS (Hebrew: יקיר אהרונוב; born August 28, 1932)[1] is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics.

[5] In June 2024 he was elected to serve in the Royal Society of London.6 Yakir Aharonov was born in Haifa.

He received his undergraduate education at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, graduating with a BSc in 1956.

He continued his graduate studies at the Technion and then moved to Bristol University, UK together with his doctoral advisor David Bohm, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1960.

Verifying a present effect of a future cause requires a measurement, which would ordinarily destroy coherence and ruin the experiment.