Professor
Abraham Nitzan
Biosketch (2017)
Abraham Nitzan
was born in Israel in 1944, received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Hebrew
University, and Ph.D degree from Tel Aviv University (TAU) in 1972. Following
post doctoral studies at MIT and the University of Chicago he has returned to
Tel Aviv University in 1975 where he is a professor of Chemistry since 1982
(Emeritus since 2014). Starting 2015 he will be a professor of Chemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania, USA. At TAU he has served as Chairman of the School
of Chemistry in 1984-7, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences in 1995-8 and director
of the Institute of Advanced Studies 2003-15.
His research focuses on the interaction of light with molecular systems,
chemical reactions in condensed phases and interfaces and charge transfer
processes in such environments. He has published over 330 papers, a
comprehensive text ("Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases", Oxford
U. Press, 2006), was assigned one patent and has given invited talks in over
190 scientific meetings.
Since
1992 Nitzan is the
incumbent of the Kodesh Chair of Chemical Dynamics at Tel Aviv
University.
Among his main recognitions are the Humboldt Award, the Israel Chemical
Society
Prize (2004) and Medal (2015), the Emet Prize (2012), the Israel Prize
in
Chemistry (2010), the Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
(2017) and the Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics. He
is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a Foreign Honorary member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of
Sciences and a member of the Israel Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 he
has received an honorary doctorate (Dr. Honoris Causa) from th e University of Konstanz.