Raphael David Levine
Raphael David Levine ( born March 29, 1938 in Alexandria ) is an Israeli chemist.
Levine made 1959 his master's degree at the Hebrew University, was two years in the Israeli army and in 1964 at the University of Nottingham (Ph. D. ) and 1966 at the University of Oxford ( D.Phil ) doctorate. In 1966 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin. In 1968 he moved to Ohio State University where he was Professor of Chemistry in 1970 Batelle. From 1989 he was professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1990 as a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. He was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley ( Miller Research Professor ) at Cornell University (AD While Professor at Large ) and he was Max Born Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
He dealt with chemistry under extreme conditions, molecular electronics, reaction mechanisms of clusters dynamics in phase space, applications of information theory in chemistry and biochemistry, algebraic techniques for the study of the structure and dynamics of anharmonic systems.
He is a member of the Israeli and Danish Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Max Planck Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Academia Europaea.
In 2008 he received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 1974 Israel Prize in 1992 and the Rothschild Prize. In 1996 he received the Max Planck Research Award and the 2001 EMET price. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Liège and the Technical University of Munich (1996). He was Sloan Fellow.
Writings
- Molecular reaction dynamics, Cambridge University Press 2005