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Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Joshua Jortner

Born 14 March 1933, Tarnow, Poland.
Immigration to Israel 1940.
Married to Ruth Thea Sanger, M.D.
One son Roni, one daughter Iris.
Military Service, Israeli Defence Forces 1955-1959.
Education:
Faculty of Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry 1951-1956.
Ph.D. degree, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1960.

Phone: +972-3-6408322
Fax: +972-3-6415054
Email: jortner@chemsg1.tau.ac.il
Address: School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1961-63 Lecturer, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University

1963-65 Senior Lecturer, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University

1965-66 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

1966- Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

1966-72 Head, Institute of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

1966-69 Deputy Rector, Tel Aviv University

1969 Acting Rector, Tel Aviv University

1970-72 Vice-President, Tel Aviv University

1974-2003 Heinemann Chair of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

2003- Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

VISITING ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1962-64 Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Metals, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

1965-66 Visiting Associate Professor, Chemistry Department and Institute For the Study of Metals, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

1966-72 Professor, Chemistry Department and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, U.S.A. (part-time appointment)

1974, 1978 Visiting Professor, H.C. Ørsted Institute, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

1975 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

1995 Christensen Visiting Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England

1998-2000 International Research Chair "Blaise Pascal" of the Fondation de l'École Normale Supérieure, France

HONORARY DEGREES

1985 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

1986 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, France

1996 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Munich, Germany

2005 Doctor Scientiarium Honoris Causa, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

2005 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

2005 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2005 Doctor Rerum Naturalium Honoris Causa of the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

AWARDS AND HONORS

1972 International Academy of Quantum Science Award

1973 Weizmann Prize

1976 Rothschild Prize

1976 Kolthof Prize

1982 Israel Prize in Exact Sciences

1988 The Wolf Prize in Chemistry

1989 Commemorative Issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry in honor of The Wolf Prize

1993 The Honorary J. Heyrovsky Medal

1994 Festschrift of the Journal of Physical Chemistry

1995 August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal of the German Chemical Society

1996 The Establishment of the Joshua Jortner Distinguished Lectures in Chemistry at Tel Aviv University endowed by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation

1997 Dedication of the XVII Symposium on Molecular Beams, University Of Paris, Orsay, France

1999 The Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry

2003 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Medal of the Polish Chemical Society

2003-4 Publication of a Special Issue of the Israel Journal of Chemistry on "Perspectives in Chemistry" honoring the occasion of Jortner's 70th birthday

2004 Medal of the Israeli Chemical Society

2007 The Joshua Jortner Chair in Chemistry at Tel Aviv University endowed by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation

2007- The Lise-Meitner Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2008- EMET Prize in Exact Sciences: Chemistry

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES

1973- Member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities

1982- Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science

1990- Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society

1990- Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

1991- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1991- Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

1991- Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences

1992- Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea

1994- Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1995- Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

1995- Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy

1997- Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

1998- Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

1999- Foreign Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic

HONORARY LECTURESHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1974 Bourke Lecturer, Faraday Division, Chemical Society (London)

1975 Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame (U.S.A.)

1977 Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology (U.S.A.)

1977 Falk Plaut Lecturer, Columbia University (New York, U.S.A.)

1979 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Scholar, Pennsylvania University, (U.S.A.)

1982 FMC Lecturer, Princeton University (U.S.A.)

1983 F. Stanley Kipping Visiting Professorship, University of Nottingham (England)

1984 Albert W. Noyes, Jr., Lecturer, Rochester University (U.S.A.)

1988 The Fritz Haber Lecturer (Germany)

1989 Presentation to the Academie des Sciences, Paris, France

1993 The Memorial R. Brdicka Lecture (Prague, The Czech Republic)

1994 The DuPont Distinguished Lecture in Physical Chemistry, Indiana University (Bloomington, U.S.A.)

1994 Flygare Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.)

1994 F. Kaufman Memorial Lectures, University of Pittsburgh (U.S.A.)

1995 Hinshelwood Lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, England

1995 The Aharon Katzir Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

1995 The Jeremy Musher Memorial Lecture, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel)

1997 The Spiers Memorial Lectureship, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Division (England)

1999 The C.N.R. Rao Distinguished Award Lecture, Bangalore, India

1999 The Robert S. Mulliken Lecture, University of Chicago, USA

1999 Kolthoff Lecturer, University of Minnesota, USA

1999 The K.S. Pitzer Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1999 The J.O. Hirschfelder Lectures, University of Wisconsin, USA

1998-2000 International Research Chair "Blaise Pascal", Fondation de l'École Normale Supérieure, Ille de France, France

2002 The Jean Perrin Lecture, Division of Chemical Physics, French Chemical and Physical Societies, France

2003 The Distinguished Malcolm Dole Lectures in Physical Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1962- Member of the American Physical Society

1964- Member of the Israel Chemical Society

1985- Fellow of the American Physical Society

1997- Member of the American Chemical Society

2002- Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)

2002- Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

2002- Honorary Board of Directors of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics

2008- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

1966-69 Journal of Chemical Physics

1969-98 Chemical Physics Letters

1970-78 Molecular Physics

1972-81, 1985- Theoretical Chimica Acta

1980-84 Journal of Physical Chemistry

1982- Laser Chemistry

1983- Chemical Physics

1987-97 Zeitschrift für Physik D - Atoms, Molecules and Clusters

1988-94 International Journal of Quantum Chemistry

1995- Russian Journal of Chemistry

1997-2005 European Physical Journal D

1997-2001 European Journal of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics

2004- International Journal of Applied Chemistry

2005- Honorary Member of the Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

2007- International Review of Physics (IREPHY)

OFFICES AT THE ISRAEL NATIONAL ACADEMY SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

1980-86 Vice-President

1986-95 President

1996-2004 Member of the Council

1986-95 Science Advisor to Prime Ministers of Israel Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres

1996-2002 Co-Chairman of the FIRST Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2004-05 Chairman of the Center for the Advancement of Science Policy of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

ISRAEL SCIENCE POLICY

1969-74 Member of the Israel National Council for Higher Education

1970-72 Member of the Israeli National Council for Research and Development

1975-81 Member of the Israeli University Planning and Grants Committee

1986-95 First Chairman of the Board of the Israel National Science Foundation

1988-2005 Member of the Israel Committee for Pugwash

1996-2003 Member of the Board of the Israel National Science Foundation

1992-97 Member of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation

1992-93 Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

1979-85 Member of the Committee on Synchrotron Radiation, European Science Foundation

1983-89 Member of the Minerva Foundation Fellowship Committee

1985-2004 Member of the Beirat of the Binational German-Israeli Fritz Haber Program on Chemical Dynamics

1987- Founding Member of the Beirat of the Binational German-Israeli James Franck Program on Laser-Matter Interaction

1987-2001 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry:
Member of the Bureau (1987-95) and Executive Committee (1998-99); Vice President and President Elect (1996-97); President (1998-99); Past President (2000-01)

1991- President, American Foundation for Basic Research in Israel

1998-2000 Board of Directors, Telluride Summer Research Center

2000-06 Coordinator of the Sackler Chemistry Prize for Young Scientists, Tel Aviv University
2002- Member of the Board of the Dan David Prize

2004- Member of the Board of the Cyprus Research and Education Foundation

2005- Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute (ABI)

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