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JOSHUA JORTNER
Born March 14, 1933 in Tarnow, Poland.

Professor of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Email: jortner@chemsg1.tau.ac.il
WWW: www.tau.ac.il/chemistry/jortner/

International Academy of Quantum Science Award (1972); Weizmann Prize (1973); Bourke Lecturer, Faraday Division, Chemical Society (London) (1974); Rothschild Prize (1976); Kolthoff Prize (1976);Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology (USA) (1977); Falk Plaut Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, (USA) (1977); Israel Prize in Chemistry (1982); F. Stanley Kipping Visiting Professorship, University of Nottingham (England) (1983); The Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1988); The Honorary J. Heyrovsky Medal (1993); The Memorial R. Brdicka Lecture, Prague (1993); The August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Medal (1995); R.S. Mulliken Medal (1999); J.O. Hirschfelder Prize (1999); The Dupont Distinguished Lecture in Physical Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA) (1994); The Flygare Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) (1994); The F. Kaufman Memorial Lectures, University of Pittsburgh (USA) (1994); Festschrift of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1994); The Hinshelwood Lectures, Oxford University (England) (1995); The Aharon Katzir Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) (1995); The J. Musher Memorial Lecture, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel) (1995);The Spiers Memorial Lecture, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Faraday Division, England (1997); The C.N.R. Rao Distinguished Award Lecture, Bangalore, India (1999); The Robert S. Mulliken Lecture, University of Chicago, USA (1999); The 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 (1999); the Jean Perrin Lecture, Divisions of Chemical Physics, French Chemical and Physical Societies, France (2002).

Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (1985); Doctor Honoris Causa of the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, France (1986); Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Munich, Germany (1996); Member of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society; Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences; Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences; Active Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europeaea; Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina; Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy; Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America; Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign Member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic; Vice President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1981-1986); President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1986-95); International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - Vice President (1996-97), President (1998-99).

Author of:

    690 scientific papers in the area of chemical physics and theoretical chemistry, and the author and editor of 23 books.
Important Contributions:
    These pertain to the phenomena of energy acquisition, storage and disposal in molecules, clusters, condensed phases and biophysical systems which involve:
    1. Excitons, charge and energy transport in molecular solids.
    2. Electronic excitations in condensed rare gases.
    3. Medium perturbations on extravalence excitations.
    4. Electronic structure and transport in disordered materials.
    5. Intramolecular dynamics in isolated large molecules.
    6. Molecular dynamics.
    7. Dynamics of high Rydberg states.
    8. Multiphoton processes.
    9. Molecular clusters, microscopic solvation, energetic and dynamic size effects. Dynamics and response of nanostructures.
    10. Radiationless transitions and relaxation in the condensed phase and biophysical systems.
    11. Electron transfer in chemistry and biophysics.
    12. Ultrafast dynamics in chemistry and biophysics.