Benjamin Elazari Volcani
Benjamin Elazari Volcani (Hebrew: בנימין אלעזרי-וולקני; born 4 January 1915, died 1 February 1999) was an Israeli microbiologist who discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. == Biography == Volcani was born January 4, 1915, in Ben Shemen, in what was then the Ottoman Empire the son of Yitzhak Elazari Volcani (1880–1955) and Sarah Krieger.