LEADING THE CHEMICAL COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL

• Born in 1890 in Lithuania.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1925.
• Received his Ph.D.
• in 1923 from the University of Bern, Switzerland.
• In 1925 he joined the Chemistry Department of the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.
  Later he became a Professor and Head of the Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Department.
• His areas of research were inorganic complexes, heterometry and analytical methods.

• Born in 1896 in Germany, Immigrated to Israel in 1933.
• Received his academic education in Chemical Technology at the University of Bonn.
• Worked for a short period in E.G. Farben, Germany.
• In 1935 he established the Department of Industrial Chemistry in the Technion, now the Faculty of Chemical Engineering.
• Was the Dean of the Department during the fifties and sixties.

• Born in Poland in 1902.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1923.
• Started his studies at the pre-faculty of sciences of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, graduated unofficially in 1928.
• Received his Ph. D. degree from the University of Brussels in 1931.
• In 1933 he joined the newly established Daniel Sieff Research Institute as the first and only physical chemist. Specialized in photochemistry.
• In 1950 he discovered photochromism and the phenomenon of photochemical memory, which won him world-wide recognition.
• He received the Weizmann Prize in 1953.

• Born in 1920 in the USA.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1948.
• Joined the Weizmann Institute in 1948, where he achieved the total synthesis of morphine.
• In 1954 he moved to the Technion where he established the Faculty of Chemistry and was its Dean for a number of years.
• He also served as the Acting President of the Technion in 1961.
• He established the field of propelanes in organic chemistry and published about hundred papers in this area.

• Born in 1914 in the USA.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1947.
• Received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
• In 1947 joined the Weizmann Institute after a post-doctoral work at Princeton.
• Served in the Israeli Army Science Unit during the War of Independence.
• In 1950 he founded the detergents and chemicals company “Kadima” in Haifa.
  Later he became the Director of R&D of the Fertilizers and Chemicals Company.
• Was Head of the R&D Organization of the Technion.

• Born in 1908 in Germany.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1933.
• Was one of the first chemists in the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot.
• Established the Department of Pharmacology in the Medical School of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• His main research areas were synthetic and pharmaceutical chemistry.

• Born in 1918 in Jerusalem.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1945, after carrying out his research at the Sieff Institute in Rehovot under Prof. Felix Bergmann.
• Professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University, established the Department of Medicinal Chemistry of the Medical School in the University.
• His major research fields are organic, organometallic and pharmaceutical chemistry.

• Born in 1920 in the USA.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1948.
• Joined the Weizmann Institute in 1948, where he achieved the total synthesis of morphine.
• In 1954 he moved to the Technion where he established the Faculty of Chemistry and was its Dean for a number of years.
• He also served as the Acting President of the Technion in 1961.
• He established the field of propelanes in organic chemistry and published about hundred papers in this area.

• Born in 1924 in Rumania. Immigrated to Israel in 1941.
• Received his B.Sc. from the University of Leeds, England, in 1951 and his D.Sc.
• From the Technion in 1955.
• Joined the Chemistry Faculty of the Technion in 1958 and was Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry in 1972-1976.
• His areas of research include homogenous catalysis in chemical and biological systems using organometallic complexes, medical diagnosis, and separation technology.

• Born in 1930 in Israel.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1955, after carrying out his research at the Weizmann Institute.
• Became the Head of the Nuclear Chemistry Department at the Soreq Nuclear Center in Yavne, and Professor of Nuclear and High Energy Chemistry at the Hebrew University.
• His research was in the areas of radioactive isotopes and radiation chemistry.

• Born in 1919 in Egypt.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1945 after carrying out his research at the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, Rehovot.
• Became a Professor of organic chemistry at the Weizmann Institute.
• His main research was in the area of natural products as drugs for viral diseases and for cancer.

• Born in 1934 in Berlin.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1962.
• Worked for several years in the Fiber and Forest Products Institute and in the Mekorot Company.
• Joined the Department of Chemistry of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan.
• Served as Dean of the Science Faculty during 1967-1969 and also in 1973-1975, Rector in 1982-1986, and President of the University in 1986-1989.
• His areas of research include the chemistry of organo-tellurium compounds.

• Born in 1927 in Rumania.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1940.
• Received his Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• Served for a number of years as Lecturer in the Chemistry Faculty of the Technion.
• Joined the pharmaceutical Company Abic, which was later acquired by Teva, as the Director of Research and Development.
• He developed a new drug “Avimsten100” for treatment of infections in cattle, as well as other drugs.

• Born in 1938 in Jerusalem.
• Received his Ph.D. in 1969, from the Hebrew University.
• Joined the Hebrew University in 1972, was Head of Physical Chemistry Department and Director of the Farkas Center for light-induced processes.
• His main areas of research are EPR spectroscopy, photosynthesis, photochemical and photophysical processes in liquid crystals, and applied aspects of spin polarization.

• Born in 1938 in Jerusalem.Received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1965.
• Served as Head of the Chemistry Department in the Nuclear Research Center – Negev, Dimona.
• Professor of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and President of the Academic College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel.
• His research areas are radiation chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry, metal complexes in unusual oxidation states, redox reactions and kinetics of free radicals.

• Born in 1930 in Romania.
• Immigrated to Israel in 1983.
• Survived the Holocaust. Studied in Vienna and then in the USA, received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in1956.
• Following by postdoctoral studies at Harvard served as professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado and then at the State University of New-York in Binghamton.
• Became professor of chemistry at Bar-Ilan University in 1984.
• His research includes new methods in organic synthesis, organo-nitrogen compounds, cycloadditions, heterocycles.

• Born in 1942 in Haifa.
• Received his D.Sc. from the Technion in 1978.
• Professor and Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry in the Academic College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel.
• His research includes synthesis of imaging materials for radiography, unnatural amino acids and their inclusion in peptides, intermediate for the drug industry, organo-lithium compounds.

See personal website: www.ehudkeinan.com

• Born in 1935 in Nes-Ziona.
• Received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 1965.
• Following a post-doctoral research in the University of Chicago joined the chemistry faculty of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev in 1968. Served as Head of Department, Deputy Rector of the University and Director of the Applied Research Institutes.
• His areas of research include new derivatives of jojoba waxes, chemistry and entomology of pheromones.
• Founder of PheroCap, focusing on pests control using pheromones.

• Born in Haifa in 1941.
• Received all his academic degrees from the Technion. After post-doctoral work in Holland, he joined the Faculty of Chemistry in the Technion in 1973.
• In 1991-1994 served as Dean of the Chemistry Faculty, and later as Dean of the Division of Continuing Education.
• His research areas include lasers in chemistry, photophysics of organic molecules and molecular optoelectronics and electronics.

• Ph.D. Dept. of Materials Science, Weizmann Institute, 1976.
• Postdoc, Cal Tech Dept of Inorganic Chemistry and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
• Joined the Weizmann Institute, Dept. of Materials Science in 1980, was a researcher in DuPont Central R&D in 1986-87, before joining Bar-Ilan University, Professor since 1994.
• Research interests include synthesis, characterization of polymers and biopolymers, surface modification of nano/micro-scale particles of narrow size distribution.

See personal website: www.ehudkeinan.com