Unique new technique of thin film infrared spectroscopy using low energies, short scan times (0.1 s) for microgram samples on a silver halide planar fiber. We have thus characterized seven oligomers of water and the formation of 310, alpha and the previously undetected pi-helices of N-methyl acetamide. The technique is now being extended to polyethylene substrates yielding new insights into the nature of the contact region between hydrophobic surfaces and water.
פרופ' אדוארד קוסובר ז"ל
Research
Education
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B.Sc., University of California, Los Angeles, 1948-1952
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Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1952-1954
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Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1952-1953
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Department of Chemistry Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1953-1954
Academic Appointments
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Ass't.Prof., Chemistry Dept., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Penn, 1954-1956
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Instructor, Chemistry Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., 1956-1957
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Ass't.Prof., Chemistry Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., 1957-1961
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Assoc.Prof., Chemistry Dept. State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1961-1965
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Prof., Chemistry Dept.State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1965-1972
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Adjunct Prof., Chemistry Dept., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1972-1999
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Prof., Chemistry Dept., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1972-1997
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Prof. Emeritus, Chemistry Dept., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1997
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Visiting Prof., Univ. of California, San Diego, Calif. Visiting Prof., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, USA, 1977-1978
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Visiting Prof., Japan Soc. for Promotion of Science, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan, 1978
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Visiting Prof., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1983
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Visiting Prof., Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 1987
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Distinguished Visitor, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 1991
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Chair in Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1989-1992
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Visiting Scientist, Institute of Polymers, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 1991-1992
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Josef Kryss Chair in Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1992-1999
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Josef Kryss Chair Emeritus in Biophysical Organic Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 1999-Present
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Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. USA, 1997, 1998
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Consulting Prof. of Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. USA, 2000
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Adjunct Faculty, International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2009-Present
Awards and Prizes
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Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1960-1964
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Weizmann Prize (jointly with Professor N.S.Kosower), 1977
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1977-1978
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Kolthoff Award, Technion, Israel, 1984
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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989
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Lemburg Lecturer, Australian Academy of Sciences, 1991
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Rothschild Prize in Chemistry, Israel, 1996