Edward M. Kosower

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Edward Malcolm Kosower (born February 2, 1929 in Brooklyn ) is an Israeli-American chemist ( organic chemistry ). He is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University .

Kosower studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's degree in 1948 at John D. Roberts and was at the 1952 University of California, Los Angeles at Saul Winstein with the work The "i-sterol" (homoallylic) rearrangement doctorate . As a post-doctoral student he was with Cyril A. Grob in Basel and with Frank Westheimer at Harvard University . From 1954 he was Assistant Professor at Lehigh University and 1956 Instructor and then Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin . In 1961 he became an associate professor and later professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . Since 1972 he has been a professor in Tel Aviv, from 1992 as Josef Kryss Professor of Biophysical Organic Chemistry.

In 1968/69 he was at the Weizmann Institute and in 1977 he received the Weizmann Prize with his wife Nechama Star Shot. In 1984 he received the Kolthoff Award of the Technion and in 1996 the Rothschild Prize in Chemistry.

During his time at Harvard and Wisconsin, Kosower introduced a Z-value for measuring the polarity of liquids via the UV absorption maximum of salts. At SUNY he discovered stable and distillable pyridinyl radicals and the thiol- oxidizing reagent diamide . In Israel, he worked on fluorescence markers ( bimans ), mobility agents for membranes ( membrane mobility agents ), electron transfer reactions and FTIR spectroscopy on planar silver-halide fibers, modeling of biological receptors and channels. He is the author of several textbooks.

1960 to 1964 he was a Sloan Research Fellow and 1977/78 Guggenheim Fellow . He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Molecular Biochemistry, McGraw Hill1 1962
  • Molecular Mechanisms for Sensory Signals: recognition and transformation, Princeton University Press 1991
  • Introduction to Physical Organic Chemistry, Wiley 1968
  • with Clayton H. Heathcock , Andrew Streitwieser : Introduction to Organic Chemistry, 4th edition, Macmillan 1992
    • German translation: Organic Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, 2nd edition, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Edward M. Kosower at academictree.org, accessed on February 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kosower, Edward M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosower, Edward Malcolm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City