Zafra Lerman
Zafra Margolin Lerman (born January 24, 1937 in Haifa ) is an American chemist and educator.
Lerman studied at the Technion with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a master's degree in 1964 and received his doctorate in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute in 1969 . She developed new curricula to use the arts (for example dance) to teach natural sciences to students from other disciplines and especially to those from underprivileged backgrounds. In 1977 she became the first natural scientist member at Columbia College in Chicago (specializing in art and media), where she founded the science and mathematics department in 1981, which she headed until 1991. She was a Distinguished Professor there. In 1991 she founded the Science Institute there, which she headed until 2009.
Lerman is President of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which mediates with the help of science in the Middle East conflict. The first conference was held in Malta in 2003.
She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and received its Science Diplomacy Award in 2015. In 2016 she received the Andrei Sakharov Prize .
From 1986 to 2010 she chaired the Subcommittee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights of the American Chemical Society . In 2005 she received the Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights Award and in 2010 the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education from the ACS, in 2005 the Nyholm Prize for Education from the Royal Society of Chemistry, in 2002 the James Flack Norris Award and in 2003 the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award the ACS.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Sakharov Prize 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lerman, Zafra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lerman, Zafra Margolin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |