Sabetai Unguru was born in 1931 in Podu Iloaiei, Romania. He studied philosophy, philology, history, and mathematics at the
University of Iași before
immigrating to Israel in 1961. He obtained his Ph.D. in the
history of science from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970, and was an
assistant and
associate professor in the Department of History at the
University of Oklahoma between 1970 and 1982. Unguru was appointed associate professor at
Tel Aviv University in 1983, and became
full professor in 1987. He served as the Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1997. Unguru died on 6 January 2024, at the age of 93. ==Selected works==