Abraham Nitzan
Abraham Nitzan ( Hebrew אברהם ניצן; * 1944 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli chemist .
Live and act
Nitzan earned a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 and a master's degree in chemistry there in 1965 . After his military service until 1969 , Nitzan received his doctorate in 1972 under Joshua Jortner at Tel Aviv University with the thesis Radiationless Transitions in Molecular Systems ( Ph.D. ). As a postdoctoral fellow , Nitzan worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago with support from the Fulbright program .
1974 Nitzan received a first professorship (assistant professor) for chemistry at Northwestern University . In 1975 he went as associate professor at the University of Tel Aviv , in 1981, he received the same place a full professorship, which he held until his retirement in held-2013. In 1990/1991 he was visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute for Science , in 2014/2015 at the Free University of Berlin . Nitzan held an additional professorship (adjunct professor) at Northwestern University from 2006 to 2012. He has been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2015 .
Nitzan is married and has two children.
Nitzan deals with the interactions of light with molecules , with chemical reactions in condensed matter and at interfaces, and with processes of charge transfer in these environments.
In 2011 he was one of the 100 most cited chemists of the previous 10 years.
Fonts (selection)
- Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-968668-1 .
Awards (selection)
- 1989 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2003 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2006 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 member of the Israel Academy of Sciences
- 2010 Israel Prize for Chemistry
- 2010 Honorary doctorate from the University of Konstanz
- 2012 EMET Prize
- 2015 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2017 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize
- 2019 Earle K. Plyler Prize
- 2020 American Chemical Society Award in Theoretical Chemistry
Web links
- Prof. Abraham Nitzan and curriculum vitae (PDF; 348 kB) at Tel Aviv University (tau.ac.il)
- Abraham Nitzan, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomson Reuters: Top 100 Chemists, 2000-2010 - ScienceWatch.com. In: archive.sciencewatch.com. February 10, 2011, accessed September 5, 2016 .
- ↑ NITZAN, ABRAHAM. (No longer available online.) In: aaas.org. August 1, 2016, archived from the original on September 15, 2016 ; accessed on September 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter N. (PDF; 283 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Abraham Nitzan. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nitzan, Abraham |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | אברהם ניצן |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |