Avraham S. Rinat-Reiner (born 3 June 1929)[1] is a Dutch-Israeli theoretical physicist who worked as professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[2]
Rinat was born in Amsterdam.[1] During his childhood he was friends with Anne Frank.[3] During World War II Rinat went into hiding on a farm in Hollandscheveld. He ended up in Westerbork transit camp where he remained until the liberation of the camp.[4] In 1958 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam under professor J. de Boer with a thesis titled: "Structure effects in the interaction between nuclei and atomic electrons".[5]