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A humble leader

Yaron Silberberg of the Weizmann Institute in Israel passed away in April. Here, some of his former students and friends remind us of who Yaron was: a creative researcher and a mentor without ego with major achievements in nonlinear optics, microscopy and quantum physics.

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Oron, D., Dudovich, N., Dayan, B. et al. A humble leader. Nat. Photonics 13, 581–582 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0514-3

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