Moshe Ron (1925 in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

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– 2001 in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropoli ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

) is an Israeli materials scientist, specializing in

metal hydrides In chemistry, a hydride is formally the anion of hydrogen( H−). The term is applied loosely. At one extreme, all compounds containing covalently bound H atoms are called hydrides: water (H2O) is a hydride of oxygen, ammonia is a hydride of ...

Biography

Moshe Ron (Zilberman) was born in Poland. His family escaped to

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

before World War II. He started his academic education in soviet

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during the war. After the war he tried to immigrate to

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...

, but spent two years at

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ...

. He got his degree from the

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

. He did research on the

Mössbauer effect The Mössbauer effect, or recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence, is a physical phenomenon discovered by Rudolf Mössbauer in 1958. It involves the resonant and recoil-free emission and absorption of gamma radiation by atomic nuclei bound in a ...

in metals. Moshe Ron was the organizer and scientific supervisor of the Laboratory of Hydrogen Energy at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He contributed to the development of

heat pump A heat pump is a device that can heat a building (or part of a building) by transferring thermal energy from the outside using a refrigeration cycle. Many heat pumps can also operate in the opposite direction, cooling the building by removing ...

s based on use of metal hydrides. His research was supported by

Daimler-Benz AG The Mercedes-Benz Group AG (previously named Daimler-Benz, DaimlerChrysler and Daimler) is a German multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of the world's leading car manufactur ...

and Stuttgart University.

Main publications

# M. Ron. J. Less-Common Metals 104, (1984) 259. # M. Ron et al. Israeli Patenr # 55403 (1982); USA Patent # .4,436,539 (1982). # M. Ron and Y. Josephy. Z. Phys. Chem. N. F. 147, (1966), 241. # M. Ron and Y. Josephy. Z. Phys. Chem. N. F. 164, (1989), 1478. # M. Ron and Y. Josephy.Proceed. "International Workshop on Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage Purification and Thermodyn. Devices". 1988, Stuttgart, Germany. # M. Ron. " A Vehicle Driven by Hydrogen within a City and Air Conditioned". Study, submitted to Daimler - Benz, 1993. # E. Bershadski, A. Klyuch and M. Ron. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 20 (1995) p. 29. # M. Ron, E. Bershadsky and Y. Josephy. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 17, (1992) 623. # M. Ron. US Patent # 4,507,263 1985 ; US Patent # 4,607,826 1986. # Y. Yosephy, Y. Eisenberg, S. Peretz, A. Ben-David and M.Ron. J. Less-Common Metals 104, (1984) 297. # E. Bershadsky, Y. Josephy and M. Ron. J. Less-Common Metals 153, (1989) 65. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ron, Moshe 1925 births 2001 deaths 20th-century Polish Jews Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Israeli materials scientists Polish emigrants to the Soviet Union Soviet emigrants to Israel Jewish scientists Scientists from Warsaw