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:
- Excitons, charge and energy transport in molecular solids.
- Electronic excitations in condensed rare gases.
- Medium perturbations on extravalence excitations.
- Electronic structure and transport in disordered materials.
- Intramolecular dynamics in isolated large molecules.
- Molecular dynamics.
- Dynamics of high Rydberg states.
- Multiphoton processes.
- Molecular clusters, microscopic solvation, energetic and dynamic
size effects. Dynamics and response of nanostructures.
- Radiationless transitions and relaxation in the condensed
phase and biophysical systems.
- Electron transfer in chemistry and biophysics.
- Ultrafast dynamics in chemistry and biophysics.
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