Menachem Magidor

Menachem Magidor
Magidor in 2006
Born	(1946-01-24) January 24, 1946 (age 78) Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Hebrew University
Known for	Mathematical logic, Set theory, Large cardinal property
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Hebrew University
Doctoral advisor	Azriel Lévy
Doctoral students	Moti Gitik
President of the ASL
In office 1996–1998
Preceded by	George Boolos
Succeeded by	Donald A. Martin
President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In office 1997–2009
Preceded by	Hanoch Gutfreund
Succeeded by	Menachem Ben-Sasson
President of the DLMPST/IUHPST
In office 2016–2019
Preceded by	Elliott Sober
Succeeded by	Nancy Cartwright

Menachem Magidor (Hebrew: מנחם מגידור; born January 24, 1946) is an Israeli mathematician who specializes in mathematical logic, in particular set theory. He served as president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1996 to 1998 and as president of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPST/IUHPS) from 2016 to 2019. In 2016 he was elected an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018 he received the Solomon Bublick Award.