Leonid Frankfurt

Leonid Lev Frankfurt (Russian: Леонид Львович Франкфурт; born 1941) is a Russian-Israeli physicist from Tel Aviv University. He was awarded the status of Fellow^[1] in the American Physical Society,^[2] after they were nominated by their Division of Nuclear Physics in 2007,^[3] for seminal contributions to high energy and high momentum transfer probes of hadrons and nuclei including: inventing the additive quark model, deriving the light front approach to nuclei, showing how to observe nucleon-nucleon corrections, and discovery of high-energy color transparency.

He graduated from Leningrad University.