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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 57, 2006

REFLECTIONS ON PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: Science and Scientists

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This is the story of a young person who grew up in Tel-Aviv during the period of the establishment of the State of Israel and was inspired to become a physical chemist by the cultural environment, by the excellent high-school education, and by having been trained by some outstanding scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and, subsequently, by the intellectual environment and high-quality scientific endeavor at the University of Chicago. Since serving as the first chairman of the Chemistry Department of the newly formed Tel-Aviv University he has been immersed in research, in the training of young scientists, and in intensive and extensive international scientific collaboration. Together with the members of his “scientific family” he has explored the phenomena of energy acquisition, storage and disposal and structure-dynamics-function relations in large molecules, condensed phase, clusters and biomolecules, and is looking forward to many future adventures in physical chemistry.

“What to leave out and what to put in? That's the problem.”

Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle's Zoo, 1925

Keyword(s): Autobiography, chemical and biological electron transfer, dynamics of finite systems, physical chemistry in Israel, radiationless transitions, structure-dynamics-function relations
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