Raphael David Levine

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Raphael David Levine (born March 29, 1938 in Alexandria , Kingdom of Egypt ) is an Israeli chemist .

Life

Levine received his Masters degree from Hebrew University in 1959 , served two years in the Israeli Army and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham (Ph. D.) in 1964 and Ph.D. from Charles Coulson at Oxford University (D. Phil.) In 1966 . In 1966 he became an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin . In 1968 he moved to Ohio State University , where he became Batelle Professor of Chemistry in 1970 . From 1989 he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , from 1990 as Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. He was also visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , (Miller Research Professor), at Cornell University (AD While Professor at Large) and he was the Max Born Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem .

He dealt with chemistry under extreme conditions, molecular electronics, reaction mechanisms of clusters, dynamics in phase space, applications of information theory in chemistry and biochemistry, algebraic techniques for the investigation of the structure and dynamics of anharmonic systems.

In 1983 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the Israeli and Danish Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , the Max Planck Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society and the Academia Europaea .

In 2008 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the Israel Prize in 1974 and the Rothschild Prize in 1992 . In 1996 he received the Max Planck Research Prize and in 2001 the EMET Prize. He is an honorary doctor from the University of Liège and the Technical University of Munich (1996). In 1970 he became a Sloan Research Fellow .

Fonts

  • Molecular reaction dynamics, Cambridge University Press 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Raphael David Levine at academictree.org, accessed on 7 March 2018th