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Prof. Abraham Nitzan
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Abraham Nitzan was born in Israel in 1944. He received his B.Sc. in
chemistry in 1964, his M.Sc. in physical chemistry in 1966 (with
Prof. Gidon Czapski), both from the Hebrew University, and his Ph.D. in
1972 (with Prof. Joshua Jortner) from Tel Aviv University. He had a
postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship at MIT, was a research associate at the
University of Chicago, and taught at Northwestern University before
joining the Faculty at Tel Aviv University. At TAU he has been a Professor
of Chemistry since 1982 and also served as Chairman of the School of
Chemistry in 1984-7, and Dean of the Faculty of Science in
1995-8. Nitzan's research is in the field of chemical dynamics and
transport phenomena in condensed phases. He was elected Fellow of the
American Physical Society (1993) and the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (2003) and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (2006) and has received the Kolthof Prize (1995),
The Humboldt Award (1995) and the Israel Chemical Society Prize (2002).
Personal website: http://atto.tau.ac.il/~nitzan/nitzan.html
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