Gad

Freudenthal

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus with the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris, France. He has written on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, mainly in the Middle Ages and in the eighteenth century, and has focused his research on Greek philosophies of matter. He is the editor of the journal Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

Freudenthal received his PhD from Université de Paris 1 (Sorbonne). Prior that, he studied mathematics, physics, and the history and philosophy of science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.