Benton Seymour Rabinovitch

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Benton Seymour Rabinovitch (born February 19, 1919 in Montreal , † August 2, 2014 ) was a Canadian physical chemist.

Rabinovitch studied at McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1939 and a doctorate in physical chemistry in 1942. During World War II he was a research chemist at Chemical Warfar Laboratories and also investigated the suspected use of chemical warfare agents on the part of the Germans. As a post-doctoral student he was at Harvard University in 1946/47 . In 1948 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Washington . In 1986 he retired and did research at University College London .

Rabinovitch studied chemical reaction kinetics.

In 1984 he received the Peter Debye Award . In 1991 he received an honorary doctorate from the Technion . He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society . In 1961 he received a Guggenheim scholarship . He was visiting professor at Harvard and Oxford, the Technion and the University of Arizona .

He was one of the editors of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and headed the ACS Physical Chemistry division. From 1975 to 1985 he edited the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry .

He collected antiquarian and modern silver tableware (some of which were exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum) and chemically examined antiques made of silver, which resulted in several monographs.

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  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004