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Raddai Raikhlin, Ph.D., was born in Moscow in 1929. He went to work at the age of 13, combining his schooling with working for a living. In 1953 he graduated from the Naval Academy and worked as an electronics engineer. He then continued his studies at the Moscow University and Moscow Power Engineering Institute, earning his doctoral degree in 1964. In addition to scientific articles, he wrote popular-science articles in major journals. On the basis of his publications he was awarded, among others, process patents for methods of receiving and transmitting gravitational waves.
In 1973 Dr. Raikhlin emigrated to Israel, where he worked at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). After leaving the Technion he became interested in sociology. In 1991 Dr. Raikhlin published "The Theory of Automata" (in Russian), an examination of a personality type the author calls an