Raphael David Levine

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Raphael David Levine

| native_name = רפאל לוין

| native_name_lang = he

| image = Levine Rphael.jpg

| caption = Levine in 2002

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|3|29|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Alexandria, Egypt

| nationality = Israeli

| death_date =

| death_place =

| field = Chemistry, Reaction dynamics

| alma_mater =

| work_institution = Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of California, Los Angeles

| doctoral_advisor = Charles Coulson

| academic_advisors =

| doctoral_students = Eran Rabani, Ronnie Kosloff

| known_for = Reaction Dynamics

| prizes = {{ubl

| Wolf Prize in Chemistry

| Weizmann Prize

| Annual Prize of the Academy

| Israel Prize

| Rothschild Prize

| Max Planck Prize for International Cooperation

| EMET Prize

}}

Raphael David Levine ({{Langx|he|רפאל לוין}}; born March 29, 1938) is an Israeli chemist who is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,[http://www.fh.huji.ac.il/members/Levine/ Raphael David Levine at Hebrew University of Jerusalem] and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles{{Cite web|url=http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/levine.html|title=Raphy Levine|website=www.chem.ucla.edu|access-date=2018-03-17}} and the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.{{Cite web|url=http://faculty.crump.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=264627|title=UCLA Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging {{!}} Faculty Editor|website=faculty.crump.ucla.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-03-17}}

Biography

Raphael David Levine was born on March 29, 1938, in Alexandria, Egypt.

Academic career

He is the Max Born professor of Natural Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is known for his contributions in the modern theory of chemically reactive collisions and unimolecular reactions. He has played a major role in the application of the principles of quantum mechanics to the description of physical change in a reaction from a microscopic point of view, introducing many new concepts and terms which became standard to this area. His major works include the quantum theory of absolute rates, the first quantal treatment of molecular photodissociation, elucidation of the role of resonances in reactive molecular collisions, the theory of collision- induced dissociation, and the foundations of dynamical stereochemistry.

He is a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Max Planck Society, Academia Europaea, American Academy of Arts & Sciences,{{Cite web|title=Raphael David Levine|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/raphael-david-levine|access-date=2021-12-10|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}} American Philosophical Society,{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Raphael+David+Levine&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-10|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and National Academy of Sciences of the United States.{{Cite web|title=Raphael D. Levine|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/3008944.html|access-date=2021-12-10|website=www.nasonline.org}}

He has honorary doctorates from Liege University, 1991 and the Technical University of Munich 1996.

His 2005 book, "Molecular Reaction Dynamics", Cambridge University Press, was selected by Choice as 'Outstanding Academic Title 2006'.

Awards and recognition

In 1968, he was awarded the Annual Prize of the Academy.
In 1974, he was awarded the Israel Prize, in exact science.{{Cite web| title = Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1974 (in Hebrew)| url = http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashlad}}
In 1979, he was awarded the Weizmann Prize.
In 1988, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Joshua Jortner of Tel Aviv University "for their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity".[http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=15&cat_title=CHEMISTRY The Wolf Prize in Chemistry]
In 1992, he received the Rothschild Prize.
In 1996, he was awarded the Max Planck Prize for International Cooperation.
In 2001, he was awarded the EMET Prize.