Sol Kimel
Salo "Sol" Kimel (Hebrew: סול קימל; 7 October 1928 – 14 August 2021) was an Israeli chemical physicist. He was a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology between 1977 and 1997 and performed research into biomedical applications of lasers.[1]
Biography
Kimel was born on 7 October 1928 in
After the war Kimel studied science in Amsterdam and also became active in Habonim.[6] In 1955 Kimel started working at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The next year he returned to the Netherlands and married Bianca Blaugrund-Alefrant. One year later they moved to Israel.[5] In 1960 he obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam under professor Jan Ketelaar with a thesis titled: "Optical dispersion of gases in the infrared region : the dispersion through the first overtone band of HCI".[3] The next two years he was a post-doc at Princeton University. Afterwards he became a research scienstist at the Weizmann Institute. Kimel subsequently started working at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and after a spell as associate professor he became full professor in 1977. He retired in 1997.[5]
Kimel was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989.[8] In 1994 he was interviewed by David A. Slavkin of the Anti-Defamation League of Orange County, California on his history as a survivor of the Holocaust, the files were copied to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.[9]
Kimel died in Haifa on 14 August 2021 at the age 92.[5] A memorial endowment was set up in his name at the Beckman Laser Institute.[10]
References
- ^ "Sol Kimel". Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-94-6003-523-4.
- ^ a b "S. Kimel, 1928 -" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020.
- ^ "Roepnaam en officiële naam Sol Kimel". joodsmonument.nl (in Dutch). 27 June 2023. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023.
- ^ a b c d e "About Sol Kimel". UCI Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Sol Kimel - Autobiography" (PDF). chemistry.org. February 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2023.
- ISBN 978-94-6003-523-4.
- ^ "Sol Kimel". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 April 2020.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Sol Kimmel". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023.
- ^ "Sol Kimel Endowed Memorial Graduate Student Award". Beckman Laser Institute. Archived from the original on 24 November 2023.