Moshe Ron

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Moshe Ron (also known as Moshe Zilberman) was an Israeli materials scientist who specialized in metal hydrides. He was born in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland, and died in 2001 in Haifa, Israel. His family fled to the Soviet Union before World War II and he studied in Central Asia during the war. After the war he tried to move to Mandatory Palestine, spending two years in Cyprus, and later earned a degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He researched the Mössbauer effect in metals, led the Laboratory of Hydrogen Energy at the Technion, and helped develop heat pumps that use metal hydrides. His work was supported by Daimler-Benz AG and Stuttgart University.