Shaul Mukamel

Shaul Mukamel (born December 11, 1948 ) is an Israeli-American chemist (optical spectroscopy, nonlinear optics).

Mukamel studied at Tel Aviv University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a master's degree in 1971. In 1976 he received his doctorate there under Joshua Jortner . From 1971 to 1973 he was an officer in the Israeli army and from 1974 to 1976 he was a lecturer at the Soreq Nuclear Research Center in Israel, and in 1976/77 he did research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1977/78 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley , and Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Rice University from 1978 to 1979 . From 1981 he was Senior Scientist and from 1982 Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute and from 1985 Professor at the University of Rochester . In 2004 he became a professor at the University of California, Irvine .

He deals with ultrafast dynamics and relaxation processes in large molecules (e.g. nonlinear optical behavior of conjugated polymers), in biological complexes (such as light-collecting complexes in biology and proteins) and in semiconductors (optical nonlinearities ). He works experimentally (optical spectroscopy ) and theoretically (quantum mechanical many-particle theory ). The phenomena he has investigated include long-range electron transport in biological molecules, collective nonlinear response behavior and fluorescence in molecular nanostructures, cooperative spontaneous emission (super radiancy) in molecules and chaos in classical and quantum optics .

In 1984 he was visiting professor at the University of Paris and 1985 at the University of Tokyo.

In 2011 he received the Earle K. Plyler Prize and in 2013 the Willis E. Lamb Prize for pioneering work on novel and multidimensional molecular spectroscopy (laudation). In 2012 he received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics . For 2019/2020 Mukamel was awarded the Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the American Chemical Society, and the Optical Society of America . In 2013 Mukamel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2015 .

In 1976/77 he was a Chaim Weitzmann Fellow and from 1980 to 1982 a Sloan Research Fellow .

Fonts

• Principles of nonlinear optical spectroscopy, Oxford University Press 1995

Web links

• Mukamel Group
• Shaul Mukamel on the National Academy of Sciences membership directory

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date of birth and career dates from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Shaul Mukamel at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.