Daniel Amit

Daniel J. Amit
Born	(1938-05-05)May 5, 1938 Łódź, Second Polish Republic
Died	November 4, 2007(2007-11-04) (aged 69) Jerusalem, Israel
Nationality	Israeli Italian
Alma mater	Brandeis University
Awards	Rammal Award (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational Neuroscience Statistical Physics
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sapienza University of Rome
Thesis	On the Bose liquid (1966)
Doctoral advisor	Eugene P. Gross

Daniel J. Amit Hebrew: דניאל עמית (May 5, 1938 – November 4, 2007) was an Israeli physicist and pacifist, who was one of the pioneers in the field of computational neuroscience. Amit, Hanoch Gutfreund and Haim Sompolinsky, in a set of papers referred to as the ASG papers, were the first to demonstrate the utility of statistical mechanics in neural network research and helped establish theoretical and computational neuroscience as a novel approach that brings into brain research unique powerful sets of concepts, models, and standards of rigour.^[1]