Shneior Lifson

Shneior Lifson (Hebrew שניאור ליפסון; born March 18, 1914 in Tel Aviv, † 22 January 2001 ) was an Israeli chemist.

Lifson was over ten years from 1932 to 1945 in the kibbutz, before studying at the Hebrew University from 1943 physics, mathematics and chemistry. 1948/49, he fought in the Palestine War in the Army and continued his academic career in 1949 after receiving a Master's degree continues. He went to the Department of Polymer Research at the Weizmann Institute. In 1954 he received his doctorate at the Hebrew University (Free Energy of Polyelectrolyte Solutions). As a post - graduate student he was at Cornell University with Peter Debye and Leiden in JJ Hermans. 1958 to 1961 he was a visiting professor at the Technion and 1959/60 with Paul M. Doty at Harvard, at the Convair Laboratories in San Diego at I. Oppenheim and at the University of Oregon at TL Hill. From 1961 he was Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute. In 1979 he retired, but was more scientifically active. 1963 to 1967 he was scientific director of the Weizmann Institute of Science, 1972-1978 Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and 1963-1979 Head of Department of Chemical Physics.

1974/75 he was principal of the Open University of Israel and was its Honorary Fellow.

He dealt with polymer research, statistical thermodynamics (especially of polymers, phase transitions in biopolymers ), inter-and intramolecular forces, molecular biology and theoretical questions of the origin of life.

In 1958 he received the Weizmann Prize, the Israel Prize in 1969 and 1997, he was made an honorary Doctor of Hebrew University. He became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences in 1999. He was at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen in the Advisory Board.

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